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<em></em>Left to right: Craig Taborn (piano), Dave Holland (bass), Kevin Eubanks (electric guitar), Eric Harland (drums).

Dave Holland's 'Prism' Goes To 11, Elegantly

Prism features one of the loudest bands of the bassist's career. The pleasures of the groove here are complex and deep — it's not just about moving feet.

Shridhar Chillal, 82, let his nails grow for over six decades. He cut them off this month. They are now on display in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in New York City.

Man With The World's Longest Fingernails Cuts Them Off After 66 Years

Shridhar Chillal, 82, of Pune, India, started to let the fingernails on his left hand grow when he was 14. The longest nail was about 6 1/2 feet long.

The original Poohsticks Bridge, featured in A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books, has gone up for auction. It's estimated to sell for around $54,000 to $81,000.

The 'Poohsticks Bridge,' made famous in Winnie the Pooh, has gone up for auction

As far as bridges go, the bridge is Roo-sized, measuring less than 30 feet long. But as Winnie the Pooh would say, "Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."

Belle And Sebastian's new album, <em>Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance,</em> comes out Jan. 20.

First Listen: Belle And Sebastian, 'Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance'

The Glaswegian folk-pop band's ninth album feels light on its feet, but without sacrificing the thoughtful, careful precision for which Stuart Murdoch and his collaborators are known.

Sphere is a new $2.3 billion entertainment venue in Las Vegas that boasts the world's largest LED screen and what is said to be the largest spherical structure on the planet.

Las Vegas just unveiled its new $2.3 billion spherical entertainment venue

The giant spherical structure displays a variety of animations, such as eyeballs, planets and fireworks. It is being billed as the world's largest spherical structure and the largest LED screen.

Hanna Rosin

Along with Alix Spiegel, Hanna Rosin co-hosts Invisibilia, a show from NPR about the unseen forces that control human behavior—our ideas, beliefs, assumptions, and thoughts. Invisibilia interweaves personal stories with the latest human behavior and brain science, in a way that ultimately makes you see your own life differently. The show was nominated for a Peabody Award in 2015. Rosin's stories have won a Gracie Award and a Jackson Hole Science Media Award. Excerpts of the show are featured on the NPR News programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The program is available as a podcast.

Beck Harlan

Becky Harlan is a visual and engagement editor for NPR's Life Kit.

A sign for Interstate 81 sits under an overpass in Syracuse, N.Y. City officials and residents are debating what to do about an aging stretch of the highway that cuts through the city.

A City Faces Its 'Berlin Wall': An Interstate Highway

Interstate 81 has helped to make Syracuse, N.Y., a "20-minute city," where you can drive anywhere you need to quickly and easily. But the highway has also physically divided neighborhoods, separating the haves from the have-nots. Now, like other cities around the country with urban highways, Syracuse officials are rethinking whether aging interstates are worth preserving.

In this image taken from a video provided by the Hutton Incident Team, the historic main Sperry Chalet building in Glacier National Park is engulfed in the flames of the Sprague Fire, which is still burning.

Glacier Park's Scorched Sperry Chalet Was A Haven For The Hungry Hiker

The remote Montana lodge could always be counted on for a soft cot and a hot meal. But the Sprague Fire, which is still raging, engulfed it. A silver lining: The kitchen and dining room may be spared.

How A Whale Saved A Marine Biologist From A Shark

Marine biologist Nan Hauser released video this week, recorded last fall, that shows a whale nudging her. She tell NPR's Ari Shapiro that she thinks the whale was trying to protect her from a nearby shark.

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