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  • As tech evolves, deepfakes will become even harder to spot
    NPR's Shannon Bond speaks with UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid about the prevalence of fake images and information generated by artificial intelligence and other technologies.
  • The Sheepherder's Ball: Hidden Basque Kitchens
    In the last century, Basque people fleeing Francisco Franco's dictatorship flocked to America. "Hidden Kitchens" explores their world of outdoor, below-the-ground, Dutch oven cooking traditions.
  • Recognizing Your Inner Fish
    Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his new book, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body. Shubin traces the hand and other human features back to creatures that roamed the earth hundreds of millions of years ago.
  • Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt's Ancient Cities
    In Egypt, where antiquities have stood for millennia, climate change is posing new threats to an ancient country and its people.
  • Josh Ritter is a singer-songwriter who has released six albums. <em>Bright's Passage </em>is his first novel.
    Josh Ritter: First A Songwriter, Now A Novelist
    In Josh Ritter's first novel, Bright's Passage, a World War I soldier goes home to West Virginia and must protect himself and his infant son. The book contains Ritter's trademark combination of humor, gothic themes and fantastical imagery (an angel who inhabits the body of a horse).
  • A marble sculpture from the 4th century B.C. shows winged griffins attacking a fallen doe. It was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985. A decade later, authorities seized Polaroid photos from the warehouse of a well-known antiquities middleman, who admitted the sculpture had been looted from ruins in Italy. <a href="http://bit.ly/mtKFgU"><strong>Click here to see those Polaroids.</strong></a>
    'Chasing Aphrodite' And Other Dirty Art World Deals
    In their new book, Chasing Aphrodite, journalists Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino tell the story of dozens of illicitly acquired antiquities at one of the world's wealthiest museums. The J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles ended up returning 40 looted objects — including the goddess of love.
  • <em>Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me</em>, the first book on Handler's new imprint for Grand Central Publishing, was released this month.
    Chelsea Handler: Keys To A Multimedia Empire
    From her late-night talk show on E! television to her best-selling memoirs Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me Chelsea to her brand-new publishing imprint, Chelsea Handler has created a brand that larger audiences are starting to trust.
  • Unpaid medical bills are still harming people's credit scores despite new policies
    Medical debt can ruin people's credit rating — making it hard to get a loan, mortgage or credit card. People of color are most impacted by this issue and programs designed to help are falling short.
  • Tom Stoppard brings his Jewish identity to the stage – decades after he learned of it
    All four of the playwright's grandparents died in the Holocaust, but Stoppard only learned he was Jewish in middle age. Now, at 85, he engages with his family history in the play Leopoldstadt.
  • Russia is losing the edge in Ukraine, but Putin still seems ready to double down
    NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael McFaul, a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, about Putin's mindset as the war in Ukraine shifts out of Russia's favor.
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