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Indigenous Diligence

If Neapolitans are people from Naples, where do Sconnies come from? This game is all about demonyms — words that describe a person who hails from a particular geographic location.

Random Questions With: Jonathan Adler

Jonathan Adler joined Ask Me Another to chat about his career as a potter and where he finds inspiration to make his colorful, joyous creations.

Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me What To Do

What's the name of that Andrew Lloyd Webber song..."Don't Drink That Blue Margarita," right? Ok, so we're going to need your help identifying the correct title of songs that start with the word "don't."

Homophones To Phone Home About

Strap on your "Tae Bo-bow tie" for this game that's all about homophones.

Erick and Marlise Munoz are pictured with their first child, Mateo, who is now 15 months old. (Courtesy of the family)

Pregnant Woman Kept On Life Support Despite Family's Wishes

A 33-year-old Texas woman named Marlise Munoz has been connected to life support machines for more than a month, after she collapsed on the kitchen floor of her home.

Will Smarter Computers Lead To A Better World?

MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson says we are living in as significant a moment as the first industrial revolution, but the smart machines won't lead to utopia without good public policy.

A Dictator And The Music He Loved To Hate: Spanish Songs Of Rebellion

Alt.Latino examines the role of rock and flamenco in regimes such as Francisco Franco's in Spain.

A woman sits on a chair on a pier in front of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad approaching the port of Limassol in the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus on January 6, 2014. Danish and Norwegian naval vessels head for waters off Syria again in readiness to escort a delayed shipment of key chemical weapons for destruction. (Yiannis Kourtoglou/AFP/Getty Images)

Removal Of Syria's Chemical Weapons Underway

In all, more than 1,300 tons of weapons are expected to be removed by a flotilla that includes ships from Norway, China and Denmark. We take a look at the process of transporting and destroying the weapons.

Young people at a Civil War reenactment in Michigan. A historian studying youth in 19th century America says young people who fought in the Civil War and young people now share many of the same anxieties. (Wigwam Jones/Flickr)

Woes Of Twenty-Somethings Span The Centuries

It turns out the worries of twenty-somethings today are pretty much the same as twenty-somethings in the 1800s. Historian Jon Grinspan joins us to discuss young people's worries, then and now.

'Stringer': Finding Your Feet In The Chaos Of Congo

Anjan Sundaram's new memoir Stringer chronicles his adventures as a budding journalist in one of the world's most chaotic spots: the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reviewer and veteran journalist Ted Koppel says Stringer "is a book about a young journalist's coming of age, and a wonderful book it is, too."

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