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  • Summer is a trying time for introverts, what with the barbecues and the graduations and the picnics by the pool. If you'd always choose a good book over a good party, critic Maureen Corrigan has a list for you.
  • The Wall Street Journal says the days of "wild user growth appear to be over" at Facebook. The Next Web says Facebook is "eating the world" (except for China and Russia). Taking a closer look at the numbers, both stories can be right.
  • Vogue, the magazine she edits, printed a glowing profile of the Syrian first lady as the uprising began.
  • The RQ-4A Global Hawk was on a test flight out of Patuxtent Naval Air Station.
  • Presidential campaigns can easily churn out a new Web video every day — and they often do. But instead of repeating the same thing over and over, they're using a strategy that commercial advertisers use online — making constant variations to see what spurs a reaction.
  • A freezer that went on the fritz damaged about one-third of the brains from autistic people being stored at a research depository near Boston. The malfunction, whose cause remains under investigation, could slow research into the disorder.
  • These days American singer Ryan Shaw is making an impression. His sound is so soulful that it's been compared to legends like Stevie Wonder and Sam Cooke. Shaw joins host Michel Martin for a special performance and interview about his new album Real Love.
  • The music that people have been listening to since last year's uprisings rewrote the rules.
  • About half the cases came from United States citizens who were being exploited.
  • Last time you slid into a booth at a diner or a local coffee shop, the waitress probably arrived with a standard-issue, thick, off-white mug. More than likely that mug came from East Liverpool, Ohio. The city's ceramics industry has faded, but an order from Starbucks has brought relief to workers at one factory there.
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