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  • National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., after President Obama's speech.
    Congress Vows To Step Up To Surveillance Policy Challenge
    If there was a consensus from Congress after President Obama's NSA speech Friday, it was that Congress itself must play a major role to play in the ultimate fix.
  • <strong>Live, from the moon, it's the space weather report:</strong> Data from a lunar orbiter is being used to create a music stream that reflects conditions in space. Here, an image created by NASA "visualizers" who used data from 2010 to show the moon traveling across the sun, as happens two or three times a year.
    Space Music: How To Hear Solar Flares From The Moon
    Space weather can be heard, in a sense, by tuning in to CRaTER Radio, a "sonification" project that uses data from a NASA lunar orbiter to generate musical sounds. The results are then streamed onto the Internet.
  • Robert Gates waves and President Obama claps at the then-defense secretary's farewell ceremony in June 2011.
    Gates Says His Points About Obama Have Been Mischaracterized
    Reports this week about former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' new book have implied that he thinks President Obama approved a 2009 troop surge in Afghanistan believing the strategy would fail. But Gates tells NPR that's not right. He believes Obama became skeptical about the "troop surge" later on.
  • The Future Orientation index shows a strong correlation between Internet activity and its gross domestic product. Countries in blue are deemed forward-looking.
    What Nations Were The Most Forward-Looking In 2012?
    Germany was the world's most future-oriented country in 2012, followed by Switzerland and Japan, according to the "Future Orientation Index," which is based on Google searches. Scientists say the index is "strongly correlated" to economic health.
  • For a "Cooking With Snow" class taught through <a href="http://c.knowledgecommonsdc.org/">Knowledge Commons DC</a>, instructor Willie Shubert made <em>baobing,</em> a shaved ice dessert from China.
    What To Do With All That Snow? Cook It
    If your front yard is buried under drifts, treat yourself to some snow cuisine. It's like making lemons out of lemonade — just steer clear of any lemon-colored snow outside, please. Sugar on snow and snow cream are two sweet places to start.
  • A number of listeners submitted recipes for grilled pizza.
    Grilled Pizza And Your Other Favorite 'Tastes Of Summer'
    A few weeks ago, we asked you to enter All Thing's Considered's Found Recipes' Taste of Summer contest with a great recipe that had a compelling story behind it. Now you can vote for your favorite.
  • A member of the staff at the one-Michelin-starred restaurant Ho Hung Kee prepares wontons in Hong Kong.
    From Ramen To Rotini: Following The Noodles Of The Silk Road
    Is it possible that pasta originated in China and traveled west to Italy? Author Jen Lin-Liu travels the historic Silk Road from Beijing to Rome, tracing the evolution of pasta and sampling the offerings along the way.
  • Hot People And Cold Cars; Cold People And Hot Cars
    Car colors are getting cooler, even wintry: All over the world, car buyers are choosing white, silver, gray or black. So who favors warm, springtime colors? Think of a place where you spend half the year bundled up with mittens.
  • Dick Kazmaier of Princeton University poses with the Heisman Trophy at New York's Downtown Athletic Club before the official presentation in 1951. Kazmaier, the last Ivy Leaguer to win the Heisman Trophy, died on Thursday.
    Dick Kazmaier, 'A Honey Of A Guy'
    Commentator Frank Deford remembers the last Ivy League football player to win the Heisman Trophy. Kazmaier, 82, died on Thursday.
  • The Emmen Zoo's baboons last week, when they were looking so sad.
    Why Were The Baboons So Sad? Many Theories, No Answers
    At a zoo in the Netherlands, 112 baboons suddenly started acting oddly. They turned their backs to visitors. They moped around. They didn't want to eat. It was a week before they got back to normal. Were they upset by a storm or an earthquake that people didn't feel? Maybe aliens? It's a mystery.
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