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  • Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee is using the website Kickstarter to raise money for his latest project.
    Spike Lee: Doing The Right Thing For Himself
    The legendary filmmaker is using the fundraising website Kickstarter to raise money for his latest movie — and he's drawing some criticism for it. He talks to host Michel Martin about funding his own films and the state of the industry today.
  • Dominican Players And PED Use: Coincidence?
    More than half of the Major League Baseball players recently suspended for performance enhancing drug use are from the Dominican Republic - where many PED's are available over-the-counter. Host Michel Martin finds out more.
  • Old Gold, August 8
    Original rock and roll lives on KRVS. While searching for records to play on "Big Band Swings", I've also picked up some interesting 1950s tunes---and…
  • Casey Fury was sentenced to 17 years in prison for setting a fire aboard the USS Miami in May 2012.
    Shipyard To Get $54 Million To Scrap Arson-Damaged Nuclear Sub
    The attack submarine USS Miami was heavily damaged last year in a fire set by a disgruntled civilian employee at the shipyard.
  • Downtown Cairo is plastered with huge posters of Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the U.S.-trained Egyptian army chief who helped overthrow President Mohammed Morsi.
    Egypt's Top General And His U.S. Lessons In Democracy
    Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi led the recent ouster of Egypt's democratically elected president. Seven years earlier, he was a student at the U.S. Army War College and wrote a paper called "Democracy in the Middle East." He's the latest in a series of U.S.-trained military officers to topple a civilian government.
  • 'Dork Diaries' Reveal Secrets Of 'Not-So-Fabulous' Teen Life
    Rachel Renee Russell's very popular series stars a not-so-popular protagonist. The Dork Diaries are written by Nikki Maxwell, a misfit at a new school. Russell was inspired to write the books after seeing her own daughters struggle with the "dork" label during their teenage years.
  • The free email service Lavabit allowed users to send encrypted emails.
    Email Service Allegedly Used By Edward Snowden Is Shut Down
    The owner of the encrypted email service posted a cryptic message, saying he was barred from divulging specifics.
  • Ramin Iremadze, 13, is one of a dozen Georgians who responded to a filmmaker's call for young people with compelling stories to tell. His tale takes us to a rural mountain village, and deep within the culture of the former Soviet republic.
    Vignettes Of Georgia Make For A Gloomy, Gray Collage
    Documentarian Tinatin Gurchiani takes audiences to her home country, a former Soviet republic, with a series of youth portraits that resonate individually, but don't quite add up to a coherent picture of a society.
  • Plants accumulate carbon in the spring and summer, and they release it back into the atmosphere in the fall in winter. And a change in the landscape of the Arctic tundra, seen here, means that shrubs hold onto snow better, which keeps the organic-rich soils warmer and more likely to release carbon dioxide that's stored there.
    Swinging CO2 Levels Show The Earth Is 'Breathing' More Deeply
    Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere cycle up and down as plants take it up in the summer and let some of it out in the winter. Over the past 50 years, these "breaths" have gotten larger, as plants in the Arctic are taking up more carbon dioxide during the warmer summers.
  • Why Hasn't The Internet Blown Up Cable TV's Business Model?
    The Internet has a history of blowing up business models. Now we buy music by the song, and who needs the newspaper for classifieds? But cable television hasn't budged much. You're still forced to buy a bundle of channels, whether you watch them or not.
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