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Sifting through the overwhelming catalog of the Afro-futurist jazz master is a daunting task. To celebrate Sun Ra's centennial, we picked five essential songs that lay his otherworldly evolution bare.

Scientists are studying whether the trace amounts of pharmaceuticals are having subtle, long-term impacts on human health and aquatic life.

Once thought to be sterile, the placenta is actually home to a world of bacteria that helps shape the baby's health.

The author died on Monday. As he pointed out 45 years ago in his cult favorite The Spook Who Sat By the Door, the most fervent revolutionaries have often been the people you'd least suspect.

Host Jessica Harris speaks with Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND Healthy Snacks, a natural foods company based in New York. Harris also speaks with Michael Brown, the co-founder of City Year.

Michael Cunningham's newest novel is named after a fairy tale. But this is no Disney fantasy. Instead The Snow Queen is a story of death, drugs and aging (not always gracefully).

On this week's show, we belly up to the latest in cinematic disasters. We also take a look at some things that improved over time and at what's making us happy this week — like our next live event.

Through the story of the whale ship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker describes how our most vivid fears are often not the most realistic.

In a major victory for gun control groups, the justices upheld by a 5-4 vote a federal ban on one person buying a gun for another.

The Unwitting by Ellen Feldman is part love story, part mystery and part political thriller set during the Cold War.