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Our 'Golden Mole' Winner Used To Paint Wasps For A Living

NPR's Skunk Bear blog received 300 nominations for our Golden Mole Award for Accidental Brilliance. We have a winner: Elizabeth Tibbetts found her luck, and scientific insight, in tiny insect faces.

A medal denoting a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) is seen here at a ceremony last month. Under a new contract, a French company will make some of Britain's medals.

Umbrage In The U.K.: French Firm Will Make British Medals

In Britain, it's being called an outrage. In France, one story about the new contract starts with the sentence, "Admiral Nelson must be turning in his grave."

State of the City: Omaha Mayor highlights strong economy, public safety efforts

Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert says community policing and more officers on the streets are making a difference in the city.Stothert gave her annual State of…

The Stream: Super Tuesday Edition

Follow news and updates from the field as 13 states vote.

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed a bill that would have required transgender students in public schools to use bathrooms based on their gender at birth.

South Dakota Governor Vetoes Bill Stipulating Transgender Students' Bathroom Use

The bill would have required transgender students to use the bathroom of their birth sex. Had Gov. Dennis Daugaard not vetoed it, the bill would have become law, even without his signature.

According to the U.S. Census, single adult women now outnumber married adult women in America.

Single By Choice: Why Fewer American Women Are Married Than Ever Before

Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, says the declining marriage rates among adult women are less about the institution of marriage and more about the choices available to women today.

Noooo. But you can blame Mom and Dad for that gray hair, at least some of the time.

This Gene Could Turn Your Hair Gray

Is stress turning your hair gray? Your ancestors may have something to do with it, too. Scientists say they've found the first genetic variant associated with going gray.

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs live on stage at Morumbi Stadium last month in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Rolling Stones Announce Landmark Concert In Cuba

The open-air show on March 25 will be free. The concert is scheduled just three days after President Obama is set to visit Cuba.

George Gershwin's beloved <em>An American In Paris</em> features the sounds of taxi horns — but a musicologist argues we've been using the wrong ones.

Has 'An American In Paris' Been Honking Up The Wrong Key?

The composition is so popular that old-timey taxi horns Gershwin called for are rented by orchestras all over the country. But a musicologist says they've been using the wrong ones.

Gary Shulze, 66, and Pat Frovarp, 75, sit in Once Upon A Crime, the Minneapolis bookstore they ran for 14 years. On when they first met: "Well, Gary was pretty doggone cute," says Frovarp. "There's no doubt about it."

The Final Chapter Of A Tale Of Books, Love And Mystery In Minneapolis

Gary Shulze and Pat Frovarp have run the beloved Once Upon A Crime bookstore for 14 years. They fell in love there, bought it together and married there. Now, they're retiring.

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