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A Bloomington hair salon owner says she hopes all the discussion about alopecia will help people feel unashamed about losing their hair.

Scott Simon speaks with Bon Iver member S. Carey about his new solo album, "Break Me Open."

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Colin Carlson, co-author of a new study projecting that viruses will jump more frequently among species due to climate change, raising the risk of another pandemic.

For two years, the National Women's History Museum in Alexandria, Va., has been collecting journals by women writing about their pandemic experiences.

Pittsfield, Maine, is an unlikely place for world-class ballet, but then Col. Michael Wyly is not the guy you would expect to start a ballet company. The retired Marine commanding officer wanted to make his young daughter's dreams come true, so he lured retired Russian ballet star Andrei Bossov to rural Maine.

IBM has unveiled a computer that will match its wits against human contestants on the TV quiz show Jeopardy. David Ferrucci, an artificial intelligence researcher for IBM and project director of "Watson," the system that will compete on the popular game show, says "Watson" is "pretty close" to being competitive with Jeopardy's grand champions.

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown shares with Renee Montagne the best things she's been reading lately: on the growing pains of ambitious companies, working in your PJs and how losing your job can mean finding your life.

Did you resolve to read more in 2026? Whether you're on track or need a jump start, here are some books coming out in the next few months to considering adding to your list.

As the festival prepares to move to Colorado, filmmakers and cinephiles gather to celebrate its founder and the future of indie film.

Planet Money thought it was the perfect team to get into the board game business, since many games are all about economics. But making a game that's fun and teaches people about economics turns out to be hard.