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Friday, December 21 2012

  • Today's Takeaway | December 21, 2012 December 21, 2012

    What It Means to Be a Woman with a Gun | Fiscal Cliff: What's Plan C? | A New Version of Hamlet: You Pick the Ending | Revamping Shakespeare | New Evolutionary Theory Suggests Disti... (episode)

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    • What It Means to Be a Woman with a Gun December 21, 2012

      A recent Gallop poll proves that it’s not just men who are buying guns. Gun ownership among women is at an all time high – 43 percent report having a gun in their home. That’s not f...

    • Fiscal Cliff: What's Plan C? December 21, 2012

      President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have just eleven days to strike a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. Yesterday, House Republicans failed to reach a vote on Speaker Boehner...

    • Frank Zappa Fans Can Now Buy Licensing Rights to Unreleased Collection December 21, 2012

      On what would have been Frank Zappa's 72nd birthday, his estate, The Zappa Family Trust, will sell copies of the master recordings of "Roxy by Proxy," an unreleased show from 1974. F...

    • A New Version of Hamlet: You Pick the Ending December 21, 2012

      What if Shakespeare's "Hamlet" could end any way you please? In a new book that's become the most successful Kickstarter publishing campaign ever, it can. Web cartoonist Ryan North di...

    • Revamping Shakespeare December 21, 2012

      It’s not hard to see why web cartoonist Ryan North’s new choose-your-own adventure version of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" has quickly gained popularity among the digital set. But what d...

    • New Evolutionary Theory Suggests Distinct Human Species Coexisted December 21, 2012

      In the last four decades, however, many new evolutionary theories have been created and revised. The "Out of Africa" theory, for example, maintains that humans emerged rapidly in on...