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What West, Texas Teaches Us About Chemicals | The Growing Wealth Gap | What Next for Gun Control Advocates? | That's So Miami: Finding Poetry in City Life | Searching Through the... (episode)
The explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Texas killed at least 14 and left some 200 people injured. But those casualties are not just of plant employees and first responders, th...
A longtime proponent of stricter gun laws, New York Representative Carolyn McCarthy considers how the effort to push for tougher gun regulations is likely to move forward, after the S...
A new study from the Urban Institute offers strong evidence that the recession has exposed the United States as an economy without equality of opportunity. The study shows a growing ...
Days after the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh claimed at least 377 lives, the wreckage is still being cleared. Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC Bangladesh correspondent, has an update fro...
April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate the occasion, our friends at WLRN have been asking for local poetry that captures the texture of their city: Miami, Florida. Scott Cun...
It sounds like a science fiction scheme, but it's real. Drew Endy and the students in his lab at Stanford are exploring the process of programming cells to manufacture DNA. By develo...
<p><strong>Temple Grandin</strong> discusses her thoughts on the expanding autism spectrum, the supposed link between vaccines and autism, and her new book "The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum."</p>