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Assuming there's advanced extraterrestrial life out there, why haven't we heard from them? Astrophysicist Adam Frank explores one possible theory: that they're dealing with sustainability issues of their own, just like we're starting to confront here on earth.
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Consumer Reports has found that most cell phones perform poorly when it comes to sound quality. Perhaps more surprisingly, they also found that most people just don't care.
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Five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami destroyed the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, San Francisco photographer Lianne Milton wanted to see how the city was faring. She traveled there in November and documented a surprising recovery.
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NPR Music's Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton share their list of the best album covers of 2009. Got any covers you'd add to their list?
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The northern white rhinoceros was hunted to extinction by poachers in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Four of the last eight known northern whites in the world, two male and two female, were sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, where scientists hope they will breed.
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As has become customary in the past few years, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich's near-OCD list-making habit revealed a certain strain of outer sound that pervaded his headphones in 2009. It was decidedly heavier and louder, a pillaging that galloped with ramming speed.
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In a new off-Broadway production, Shakespeare's classic is retold through the fuzzy recollections of people who slept through English class.
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It's been more than 10 years since scientists first showed it is possible to grow embryonic stem cells. Despite political wrangling over the years, scientists have made advances in basic research. Still, there is a ways to go before stem cells can be used to treat disease.
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Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre were married in Tierra del Fuego after officials in Buenos Aires twarted their attempt. Argentina's Constitution is silent on whether marriage must be between a man and a woman, effectively leaving the matter to state and city officials.
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High school seniors Brenda Tan and Matt Cost collected more than 200 samples of food and fauna for a science research project. But they didn’t expect to discover a possibly undocumented cockroach species in the process.
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NPR Music looks back at some of the best music to come out of Africa in 2009, including Oumou Sangare, Tinariwen, Vieux Farka Toure, K'naan and Baaba Maal.
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As part of our recap of the last decade, NPR Music’s Carrie Brownstein takes a look at the impact of Youtube, which has given us a new way of reaching each other, not to mention shortcuts to fame, nostalgia and togetherness.
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Ever slap down $10 for a ticket for a film so foul you choked on the popcorn? It's time for payback. Film critic Bob Mondello names the worst offenders of the past 10 years. Got any films you'd add to his list?
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For many readers, Louisa May Alcott is synonymous with her most famous character, Jo March, the spirited sister in Little Women. But author and filmmaker Harriet Reisen says Alcott's life "was no children's book." Reisen's The Woman Behind 'Little Women' premieres Monday night on PBS.
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In September, 4-year-old Maya Chamberlin was diagnosed with a rare blood disease known as HLH. Her chances of survival depend on finding a suitable bone marrow donor. But the Chamberlin family's search for a match is more difficult because Maya is of mixed race.
