In A Class By Itself
Contestants tell us whether classes are made up, or a real course that students are amassing thousands of dollars of debt to enroll in.
Arts & Life
It's A Numbers Game
Order the following famous families from most amount of brothers to the fewest brothers: Jonas Brothers, Marx Brothers, Ringling Brothers. That would be Ringling (7), Marx (5) and Jonas (4).
Blank Of Blank
One of Pittsburgh's nicknames is "City of Bridges," referring to its many river-spanning structures. All of the answers in this final round are three-word phrases with the word "of" in the middle.
'Like Family' Rewards The Patient Reader
Physicist-turned-author Paolo Giordano's new novel follows a couple adrift after their beloved housekeeper dies. Critic Heller McAlpin says the book is melancholy, but offers a subtle hope.
Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'
At 81, Gloria Steinem is still going strong. The noted feminist has been on tour promoting a new book, My Life On The Road, which she insists is not a memoir.
Photojournalist Pays It Forward After Earning Thousands In Copyright Fees
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to photojournalist Yunghi Kim who has taken copyright fees from her photographs and created small grants for other photographers.
Pitmasters Fan The Old-School Flames Of All-Wood Barbecue
Barbecue lovers once feared that wood-fueled pits were endangered. But as appreciation of this traditional cooking method grows, pitmasters are finding wood-only is good business.
Classic Sci-Fi Comic 'Eternaut' Fights The Power
What should science fiction look like? That's a question that absorbed the creators of The Eternaut, an iconic comic about an alien invasion, first serialized in a Buenos Aires newspaper in the 1950s.
Boston Museum Exhibit Celebrates Legacy Of Black Mountain College
Black Mountain College was only open for 24 years, but it helped foment the work of several artists, musicians, dancers and filmmakers, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Cy Twombly. Now it's the subject of the first major museum retrospective at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.
Japanese Illustrator Shigeru Mizuki Dies At 93
One of Japan's most beloved illustrators has died. Shigeru Mizuki always loved to draw, but it wasn't until he was in his 40s that he began to publish his most important work.