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By Robert Krulwich

Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 10:53 am

Here's a question you probably didn't know was a question: Why is the sky dark at night?

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The Man Who Tracks Viruses Before They Spread

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H1N1 virus virons appear in a tissue sample.

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Nathan Wolfe is founder and CEO of Metabiota Inc, and founder of the non profit company Global Viral.

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Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 11:53 am

This interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 11, 2011. The Viral Storm will be published in paperback on Oct. 16.

The New Yorker once called virologist Nathan Wolfe "the world's most prominent virus hunter." Wolfe, the director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, spends his days tracking emerging infectious diseases before they turn into deadly pandemics.

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Panetta: 'Foreign Cyber-Actors Are Probing America's Critical Infrastructure'

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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

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Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 12:14 pm

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta delivered a policy speech that he said was a "clarion call" for Americans to take cyber security seriously. Attacks that can cripple a country, he said, are no longer theoretical.

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Fri October 12, 2012

'Vintage Black Glamour' Exposes Little-Known Cultural History

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That's Bananas: "Whether [Josephine Baker's] getting a pedicure or she's walking down the street or she's relaxing in a yard somewhere, I just love the variety of pictures of her," Gainer says. "The banana skirt is a part of who she was, it's the most famous thing, but it just annoys me when that's just the only thing. ... There was a lot more to her than that."

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Actress Fredi Washington circa 1940s. Washington played Peola in the 1934 Academy Award-nominated Imitation of Life.

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Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Rudolph Fisher and Hubert Delany (brother of the Delany Sisters) overlooking St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem in the 1920s.

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Duke Ellington, amid "his 20 suits, 15 shirts, suede shoes and his ever present piano" in his dressing room at the Paramount Theater in New York in September 1946.

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Argentine dancer instructing a group of young women behind her in a dance at Howard University in February 1963.

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Camille Nickerson was noted for her research on the music and culture of Louisiana Creoles. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Oberlin College and also studied at Juilliard and Columbia University. Nickerson collected, arranged and published Creole folk songs and, during the 1930s to 1950s, lectured and performed as "The Louisiana Lady."

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Lena Horne, the sultry American singer who appeared in several musicals in the '40s and was a regular of the Cotton Club, trying on a dress May 4, 1956.

By Tanya Ballard Brown

Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 4:03 pm

I was scrolling through my Tumblr feed a year or so ago, when I saw a photo of Joyce Bryant. The caption said she was once dubbed the "black Marilyn Monroe" and was mentioned many times in Walter Winchell's gossip column.

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Fri October 12, 2012

You Thought The VP Debate Was Feisty? Things Got Physical In California

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Democratic Reps. Howard L. Berman and Brad Sherman face off in a debate.

By Eyder Peralta

Originally published on Fri October 12, 2012 9:25 am

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