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Music For Plants Is Real (Even If The Science Isn't)

June 21, 2019 - 11:00am

At the dawn of the 1970s, Mort Garson installed a Moog synthesizer in his Laurel Canyon home studio. In those early days of Moogs, the modular synthesizer was a massive piece of equipment — a dizzying wall of knobs and inputs. "It looked like a switchboard from the 1940s," Garson's...

Lil Nas X Is More Than Just A Meme Lord, Apparently

June 21, 2019 - 10:30am

If you were the kind of person who spent time on the file-sharing platform LimeWire 12 years ago, there's a decent chance that, in attempting to download, say, Rihanna's "Umbrella" or Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah," you found yourself listening instead to a kid begging you to watch him...

Ever Plugged A USB In Wrong? Of Course You Have. Here's Why

June 21, 2019 - 10:00am

Your files are done syncing, and you go to plug in your thumb drive. You try once. Failure ensues. Metal clashes with metal. Humiliated and discouraged, you flip it and try again. Failure, again! How could this be possible? Wiping your brow, ready to give up, you flip back to...

1st-Generation Mexican American Attempts To Save Migrant Lives In The Arizona Desert

June 21, 2019 - 9:08am

Many dangers await migrants who attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. Hundreds die each year, faced with dehydration, hypothermia and drowning. Many more go missing along the route, separated from their group. Maria Ochoa is part of an organization called the Tucson Samaritans. She helps migrants...

A Russian Biologist Wants To Create More Gene-Edited Babies

June 21, 2019 - 9:08am

A Russian scientist says he wants to create more genetically modified babies, flouting international objections that such a step would be premature, unethical and irresponsible. Denis Rebrikov , a molecular biologist who heads a gene-editing lab at the Kulakov National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology in Moscow,...

Missed For A Decade, Roots Icons Buddy And Julie Miller Return To A Shared Spotlight

June 21, 2019 - 9:08am

The entertainment industry has given us countless tales of romantic pairings that were products of proximity or convenience — on film sets, club stages and world tours, in TV and recording studios — but didn't survive the transplant to other, more mundane settings. Buddy and Julie Miller have lived a...

2020 Democrats Offer Up Affordable Housing Plans Amid Surging Prices

June 21, 2019 - 9:00am

Updated at 9:28 a.m. ET If you listen carefully, you'll hear something unusual on the presidential campaign trail this year. Democratic candidates are talking a lot about the lack of affordable housing, an issue that rarely, if ever, comes up in an election. They're trying to tap into a growing...

Pulling Back The Curtain On Alzheimer's, Through Its Lighter And Darker Moments

June 21, 2019 - 9:00am

On a warm early summer day, Bella Doolittle sits on the doorstep of her house feeding biscuits to her dog Pepper. Bella was in her mid-50s when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. That was two years ago and the symptoms are advancing, with more memory loss and a new painful...

Is The Supreme Court About To Give Haters Of The 'Deep State' What They Want?

June 21, 2019 - 9:00am

Lost in the shuffle Thursday at the Supreme Court — with the major decision released in a separation of church and state case dominating — was another ruling that could, at some point, have wide ramifications for how American government functions. The court ruled that Congress did not overstep its...

New Music Friday: Our Top 7 Albums For June 21

June 21, 2019 - 9:00am

The 20-year old Atlanta rapper Lil Nas X has been riding a major hype wave since his self-released single "Old Town Road" blew up the Internet and multiple music charts. (It's in its eleventh week on top of Billboard's Hot 100). Now he's on Columbia Records and his debut EP...

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Music For Plants Is Real (Even If The Science Isn't)

Lil Nas X Is More Than Just A Meme Lord, Apparently

Ever Plugged A USB In Wrong? Of Course You Have. Here's Why

1st-Generation Mexican American Attempts To Save Migrant Lives In The Arizona Desert

A Russian Biologist Wants To Create More Gene-Edited Babies

Missed For A Decade, Roots Icons Buddy And Julie Miller Return To A Shared Spotlight

2020 Democrats Offer Up Affordable Housing Plans Amid Surging Prices

Pulling Back The Curtain On Alzheimer's, Through Its Lighter And Darker Moments

Is The Supreme Court About To Give Haters Of The 'Deep State' What They Want?

New Music Friday: Our Top 7 Albums For June 21

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