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If you've ever typed Oprah Winfrey and your smartphone texted "orca whale," or said "Your mom and I are going to divorce" instead of "going to Disney," you've been the unfortunate victim of an autocorrect blunder. The author of a new book, Damn You, Autocorrect! shares her favorite mistexts.

As big science projects generate more and more data, researchers are recruiting citizen scientists to help sift through the information overload. And in the case of new astronomical discoveries, amateur collaborators are even scoring authorship credits on peer-reviewed papers.

Bond supervillains, Aasif Mandvi, Jazmine Sullivan, and the weird, weird way that Hollywood looks at ballet. They're not so crazy, they swear. All this on this week's Culturetopia, NPR's arts and entertainment roundup.

Some people fight invasive plants with chemicals and scorched-earth tactics. In Washington, D.C., graphic designer Patterson Clark turns them into art.

O: A Presidential Novel gives a fictionalized portrayal of the 2012 elections, but the decision to publish anonymously raises concerns about the motivations for leaving a name off the title page.

Our comics blogger rounds up the week in funnybooks, which features an exhibition of naughty comics and some bedbug blogging.

In Grammy-award winning parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic's new children's book, When I Grow Up, Billy tells his teacher he wants to be a gorilla masseuse. When Yankovic himself was growing up, he wanted to be a writer for Mad magazine, he tells Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

At the the Royal Wedding, the hats will be on display as much as the bride herself. Whether simple feather arrangements or outlandish towers of flowers, hats are works of art. Host Liane Hansen talks to milliner Luke Song about who's wearing hats and why they're coming back as an outfit staple.

April is National Poetry Month and Tell Me More is celebrating with a series of poems with a techie twist. The poems to be featured in the series, entitled Muses and Metaphor, will be "tweets" from listeners. That means, messages no longer than 140 characters, exchanged via Twitter. Washington, DC based poet Holly Bass, who will be helping to select listeners' tweets for the program, gives advice on how to write a good tweet poem.

As the Oprah Winfrey Show ends today, Tell Me More focuses on some of the people who were parts of her legacy. Host Michel Martin speaks with Iyanla Vanzant, motivational speaker, best-selling author and a regular guest on the Oprah Show. Vanzant discusses her falling out with Winfrey and the importance of publicly hashing out things.