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  • 'The Long Walk' To Defuse A Ticking Bomb
    If you've seen the film The Hurt Locker, you probably remember a scene where a bomb defuser in an 80-pound Kevlar suit takes the long walk to extinguish an unexploded bomb. Brian Castner, author of The Long Walk, spent years as an explosive ordinance disposal officer in the U.S. Air Force, and knows that long walk well.
  • The diversity of coconut trees like these planted along the beach in the northern Philippines is in danger, but a French scientist has a plan.
    Coconut Conservationist Seeks Pacific Islands For Fun And Palm Preservation
    Are the sources for your trendy coconut water and oil in danger? Not yet, says a French scientist, but he has an elaborate vision for how to overcome the coconut's biological challenges and ensure that the plant's dozens of varieties stick around for a long time.
  • Grace Coddington, shown above in 1974, is now the creative director at <em>Vogue</em>, but she started her career as a model. "In those days, models had to know how to do everything themselves," she says.
    A Model Career: 'Grace' Goes From Runway To 'Vogue'
    In a new memoir, Grace Coddington explains how she grew up on a remote island off the coast of Wales, started modeling as a young woman and ended up as creative director at Vogue magazine. Coddington speaks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about her life in the fashion industry.
  • NASA's Mars rover Curiosity cut a wheel scuff mark into a wind-formed ripple at the "Rocknest" site to give researchers a better opportunity to examine the particle-size distribution of the material forming the ripple. The rover's right Navigation camera took this image of the scuff mark on the mission's 57th Martian day.
    So What Did The Mars Rover Find On Mars? You Tell Us
    One scientist said it has found something "earthshaking" but wouldn't say what. We're asking you guess.
  • Letters: Banning High School Football; Shoplifting
    NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments about past segments on the topics of banning high school football and shoplifting.
  • Tired of boorish behavior, the mayor of Brussels pushed for a new law that imposes stiff fines for infractions ranging from sexist, racist or homophobic comments to failing to clean up after your dog.
    In Brussels, Be Kind ... Or Be Fined
    A new law in the Belgian capital outlaws racist, homophobic and sexist insults, as well as other incivilities such as not cleaning up after your dog. The law allows for the fines — as high as $320 — to be collected quickly.
  • Drought Hurts U.S. Grain Exporters, Market Share
    In the coming year, the USDA predicts that American corn exports will be at a 40-year low. That's because the U.S. drought has led to a corn shortage and high domestic corn prices. To adapt, grain exporters have had to change their business models.
  • This Week in the Civil War - 437
    News of McClellan’s firing flooded across both the North and the South. The Richmond Dispatch on November 17 reported the dismissal, caustically…
  • This Week in the Civil War - 438
    In mid- November 1862, on the day after General Ambrose Burnside had assumed command of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan said farewell to those…
  • Students in environmental science professor Jeffery Stone's class watch as a seismic shaker truck rolls through Indiana State University's campus.
    There's Oil On Them Thar Campuses!
    Imagine going to college and finding an oil rig. That is happening at more than a dozen schools across the country that are tapping natural resources. Some students, faculty and environmental groups are raising concerns about possible explosions, and soil, water and air contamination.
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