A look at the widely condemned CIA practice of musical torture and how the likes of Metallica, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen and Prince were used in interrogations.

Today on the show: How Price Club and its imitators changed the way we shop. And how a new company is taking what Price Club started to new extremes.

American entrepreneur (1855–1932)

An anomaly known as the geoid low has long puzzled geologists. One team has found what it believes is a credible explanation, and it’s coming from deep inside Earth.

Before Bill Gates became a household name, he went to Harvard. His sophomore year, he was assigned a complicated mathematics problem captured his interest, which — no surprise — he solved. His paper on the solution was published, and until recently it remained…

American oncologist

hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament…

NASA Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, says launching a magnetic shield could help warm Mars and possibly allow it to become habitable.

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

We know a lot about the Sun, but not nearly everything. In this video Dr. Anna Funk describes how NASA's hard at work answering some fundamental questions about our nearest star.

If the altitude doesn't get to you the long-drop toilets will. Tim Moore has his definition of a holiday brutally redefined on a gruelling five-day ascent of Africa's highest mountain.

American nurseryman and missionary (1774-1845)

The Breakfast Club is a 1985 American indie teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. It stars Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The film tells the…

Comforting presence perceived during stress

American playwright (1911–1983)

president of the United States from 1929 to 1933

inventor, iron founder, and engineer