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Friday

Urban Camouflage for Reptiles: "I basically thought about how turtles have camouflage that doesn't really work very well for them in the urban environments they often live in these days," Keats said. "So my thought was, can we go to our military and look at urban warfare as inspiration." Jonathon Keats hide caption

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Artist's Exhibit Borrows Human Tech To Solve Nature's Manmade Problems

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Friends Ginger and Lena in All This Panic. Tom Betterton/Courtesy of Dogwoof hide caption

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Two Ways Of Documenting Uncertainty: 'All This Panic' And 'God Knows Where I Am'

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During World War II, Even Filmmakers Reported For Duty

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Josh Groban And Lucas Steele: Double Your Pleasure

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Purple, Prose: The new book Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve subjects thousands of books to statistical analysis. NPR Multimedia/AP Photo hide caption

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'Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve' Crunches The (Literary) Numbers

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Thursday

Jerry Miller says he always held out hope for exoneration. "I made a logical decision to do positive things and to think positive," he says. Courtesy of the Innocence Project hide caption

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An Exoneree Shares His Story Of Wrongful Conviction In 'Anatomy Of Innocence'

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