Chicago Cubs fans are eagerly awaiting the Major League Baseball season's start. That's because it marks the 100th season since the last World Series title for the Cubs. NPR's David Schaper reports on a century of "wait 'til next year."
Artist Justin Gignac began putting garbage into boxes and selling them for as much as $100 to poke fun at the notion of value. A second project involves selling paintings of objects for the price of the item depicted. It's gotten him fancy dinners, video games and more.
The Rev. James H. Cone founded black liberation theology, which has roots in 1960s civil-rights activism. In an interview with Terry Gross, he explains the movement -- and comments on controversial sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's longtime minister and a black liberation theology proponent.
Monday is the deadline for some popular mega-churches to report to Congress on how they spend their money. These churches all preach wealth as an essential part of faith.
The group behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative just delivered more of its super-cheap laptops to South Africa, but how will this new technology fare with schoolchildren in the United States? Now the group has a deal to provide computers to kids in Birmingham, Ala.
Millions of Americans have moved to the suburbs over the past 60 years. They gain a bigger house, but until recently, few were aware of the impact those choices had on the environment.
Actress Helen Mirren has played countless royals -- Cleopatra, Queen Charlotte, Queen Elizabeth I and II. It's no coincidence. Aristocracy is in the blood. Even the working class women in her family were "queenly," she says.
For his new book, the popular Food Network host hopped on a motorcycle to find the best road food along the Mississippi River. His flavorful picks range from deep-fried dishes to pickles soaked in Kool-Aid.
Bram Cohen, 26, wrote a groundbreaking program called BitTorrent. Affected by Asperger's Disorder, he says he sometimes needs his friends to remind him what's socially appropriate.
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A new system has made sharing data, music and movies over the Internet much easier. Comcast is far from pleased, however.
The troubled housing market is revealing an odd quirk about the process of selling a home. The usual economic truism -- as demand goes down, the prices go down -- doesn't seem to apply.
Seventy-five years ago, Nazi police chief Heinrich Himmler announced the opening of Dachau concentration camp, 10 miles outside of Munich. Dachau, which became a model for other Nazi camps, was the site of more than 28,000 deaths before liberators arrived in April 1945.
College administrator Carole Chabries had three pregnancies in three years, but two of her children were born prematurely and died. The daughter who lived has helped Chabries come to appreciate the complexities and frailties of the human body.
A century ago, British Naval Officer Robert Falcon Scott sought to lead the first team to the South Pole. He lost the race by five weeks, but collected scientific data on the Antarctic climate that scientists still use today.
Scott Sigler is breaking new literary ground. He's the author of some of the first podcast novels -- books delivered first by audio, in serial form. Will this new form of "book publishing" become a successful trend? Sigler offers his insights.
Small businesses in New Orleans have faced an uphill battle since Hurricane Katrina. Entrepreneurs are having trouble getting loans from traditional sources. Non-profit community lenders are filling in the gaps.
This year's Pritzker Prize for Architecture has been awarded to Frenchman Jean Nouvel. Over the course of his career, Nouvel has designed more than 200 projects around the world, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and a 75-story tower next door to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
A young entrepreneur with an MBA needs not just a good idea, but also a snappy sales pitch. Business student Ali Abbassi, who will compete in Rice University's annual Business Plan Competition next week, talks about crafting a 60-second pitch.
Cargo pilots haul everything from whales to video games in planes that harken back to another era. Freelance journalist Michael Walker, who recently wrote a profile on the subject for Men's Vogue, talks about this intense, often bizarre line of work.
The popularity of Antarctic cruises is partly due to so-called doomsday tourists -- people who want to see the continent's coastline before warmer temperatures melt the ice. But the growing traffic may actually help defend the continent from environmental threats.
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