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Louisa May Alcott was no "little woman".  Biographer Harriet Reisen uncovers the fierce feminist behind "Little Women".

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In Sara Gruen's new novel "Ape House," a family of bonobo apes are captured to be the main attraction in a reality TV show.

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Why is it that certain people bounce back after a relationship ends, whereas for others it takes years to recover? Graduate researcher Lauren Howe says it has to do with the stories we tell ourselves.

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John Linnel and John Flansburgh comprise the alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants. Their first album for children, "No!" is quite different.

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The Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible went missing? Where did it go?

This story was done in collaboration with Israel Story, the This American Life of Israel.

http://en.israelstory.org/

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Tom Key wrote and performs a one man play called “C.S. Lewis On Stage.”

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Economic policy is driven by politics, not economics.

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Persi Diaconis was a stage magician before he discovered probability theory and became one of the world's leading mathematicians.  He tells us about some very powerful formulas derived from card shuffles and magic tricks.

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