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  • Actors on Oslo, Norway, rehearse a scene from <em>Bibelen</em>, a six-hour play based on a nontraditional interpretation of the Bible. Interest in the Bible and biblical stories has surged in secularized Norway.
    Book News: The Bible An Unexpected Best-Seller In Norway
    Also: The editor of the Science Fiction Writers of America Bulletin is stepping down amid a controversy over sexism; Kevin Barry's City of Bohane wins the IMPAC Dublin Award; an impromptu library for Turkish protesters.
  • Author A.J. Jacobs demonstrates the sheer volume of the enormous beard he grew as part of his quest to live his life according to the Bible, chronicled in his book <em>The Year of Living Biblically</em>.
    A.J. Jacobs: The Quest To Do Everything
    The "human guinea pig" who has tried to become the healthiest person in the world and lived by the Bible for a whole year tries out a new challenge: puzzle hot seat.
  • Among the 50,000 pounds of fish at the Honolulu auction last Friday was this opah, or moonfish, <em>Lampris regius.</em>
    Wake Up And Smell The Tuna? Sunrise At Honolulu's Fish Auction
    Actually, fresh fish doesn't smell "fishy," says Joe Palca. He spent a recent morning watching Hawaii's fishermen sell some 50,000 pounds of catch on the auction floor and sends this postcard.
  • Vacant Building Collapses In Philadelphia
    A woman was killed when a four-story building collapsed in Philadelphia on Wednesday. A dozen others were rescued from the rubble.
  • Cedar Walton.
    Jazz Piano Giant Cedar Walton Dies At 79
    The bluesy, commanding improviser rose to eminence in the '50s and '60s with bands like Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he played a starring role and established himself as a deft small-group composer. Walton continued to perform and record his entire life.
  • New Activists Harness Memory Of 1963 March On Washington
    Events commemorating the March on Washington started Wednesday evening, and got under way in earnest on Thursday.
  • Tech Week That Was: National Security, Privacy And Ballmer
    Further fallout from the National Security Agency leaks dominated the news as the partner of a Guardian reporter was detained in the U.K. and word emerged that hard drives at the newspaper had been destroyed. And Steve Ballmer's departure announcement raised speculation about who will succeed him as Microsoft's CEO.
  • The Doctor, An Utterly Millennial Hero
    Doctor Who fans waited with bated breath this summer for the announcement of the latest actor to play the Doctor. But the Doctor is more than a character on a show that millions love, he's arguably the chosen hero of the millennial generation.
  • Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who purchased <em>The Washington Post</em>, is the latest big-name tech entrepreneur to buy a struggling media company.
    Tech Week That Was: Bezos' Buy, Twitter Abuse, Scary Alerts
    Jeff Bezos' $250 million purchase of The Washington Post, abuses of Twitter in the U.K. and fears of a backlash against new mobile Amber Alerts all made the news in technology this week.
  • The End Of Buttons: The New Gesture-Control Era
    The newest smartphones are abandoning both physical and on-screen buttons in favor of gestures. As with so much behavior change ushered in by technology, the change happens before we take wider notice.
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