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TV show turns parents’ anxiety over college exams in China into entertainment

Education

“A Little Dilemma” follows two families in their different approaches to their children’s education, giving real families in China something to relate to and reflect upon.

Magnified red microbes float among a yellow background

A micro safari through household germs reveals that cleanliness isn’t always a good thing

Medicine

In wake of this week’s attacks, pressure cookers will need an image makeover

Business, Economics and Jobs

A “Coal Miner’s Daughter” sings for America

Arts, Culture & Media

Norwegian inventor’s cardboard oven combats climate change

Business, Economics and Jobs

Energy myths exposed

Environment

Energy expert Matt McDermott debunks and confirms some popular myths about energy use and conservation.

From suburbia to surreal — the lives of writers

Arts, Culture & Media

An exploration of the ordinary and extraordinary lives of writers John Cheever, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Donald Barthelme and others.

An interview with Ze Frank

Arts, Culture & Media

Internet super-celebrity Ze Frank’s year-long daily video blog project, The Show, was one of the first great successes of the video blog world.

Rehabilitating the Pressure Cooker after the Boston Bombing

Arts, Culture & Media

The humble pressure cooker is central to the lives of millions of people across the world, and even played a part in the United States war effort at home in the 1940s.

Robots Come and Go, But Some Trades May Always Be Manual

Advertised as the first full-service window washing robot, the Winbot 7 is a kind of Roomba for your windows. Winbot’s manufacturers say the machine is just a few iterations away from scaling the walls of the city’s high-rise apartments. But can a robot really replace a real, live window washer?  Patrick J. Shields, a 25-year window […]