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  Queer TV

  It's been more than a decade since Ellen DeGeneres came out on her sitcom and "Will and Grace" premiered. So how is television doing ...

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  Afghan Star

  Afghanistan holds its second presidential elections in August, but an American-Idol-style TV show has already given the country a crash course in the electoral process ...

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  Botswana's Big Break

  "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" finishes up its season on HBO this weekend. It's based on the mystery novel series by Alexander McCall ...

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  Bell Orchestre

  A couple of years ago, a group of Canadian indie-rockers (some play in Arcade Fire) decided to write and play their own chamber music. Their ...

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  Toumani Diabate

  The kora is a 21 string instrument played all over West Africa. And Toumani Diabate is considered the greatest kora player in the world. He ...

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  The Soundtrack of Science

  Biology professor Hazel Sive teaches at MIT. She thinks science could benefit from showing a little more emotion, so she started scoring her classroom presentations ...

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  No Particular Place to Go

  'No Particular Place to Go' as Chuck Berry sang in 1964 is as good a metaphor as any to describe the current plight of the ...

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  The Next Generation of Car Designers

  At the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, instructors Tisha Johnson and Blair Taylor explain why car design has changed so little in the ...

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  Aptera, Car of the Future

  "It does fly... right by a gas station." Kurt goes for a test drive with Steve Fambro, the inventor/engineer behind a 3-wheeled electric car ...

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  Design for the Real World: Revolving Door

  It’s been spinning for over a hundred years but, as James Buzard explains, some people still aren't comfortable with it. Where it stops ...