Another Chance At Life On ‘Another Earth’

So there’s this sad young astrophysicist who works, by choice, as a high school janitor. Not by chance, she shows up at the neglected home of an even glummer man whom she wronged years ago, even though they’ve never met. She offers herself as a housekeeper. After much cleaning, hemming and hawing the two fall [...]

‘Captain America’: Speak Tersely, Carry A Big Shield

“You don’t give up, do you?” snarls Hugo Weaving’s Red Skull (the villain of the piece, as you’ll likely gather from the nom-de-guerre, if the jackboots didn’t give it away), aiming his fearsome weapon at Chris Evans’ star-spangled, lantern-jawed, melon-biceped hero. We know what comes next. We’ve seen our share of superhero movies, after all. [...]

Syria Conflict May Be Shifting Flow Of Fighters

The crackdown on protesters in Syria is spreading to the far corners of the country — recently, to a remote town on the border with Iraq in Syria’s eastern desert. This tribal region has long been known as a transit point for fighters and weapons coming into Iraq during the war, and for refugees leaving [...]

Great White Shark Jumps On Research Boat

Michele Norris speaks with Dorien Schroeder, a team leader with Ocean’s Research, who lived a Jaws-like moment when a great white jumped on deck of her team’s research boat after they threw fish into the water to lure sharks closer. This all happened off the coast of South Africa. Schroeder says the shark was three [...]

No Longer ‘Wine And Roses’ For Defense Spending

One of the big-ticket items in any budget deal will have to be the defense budget. The latest budget request calls for spending about $700 billion on defense next year, the highest level since World War II. President Obama has already proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in defense cuts, and proposals by the Senate’s [...]

The Oklahoma Virtual Library to Expand

The Oklahoma Virtual Library will be expanding available titles and launching a downloadable music collection.

FDA Reviews Possible Risk Of Rare Cancer From Bone Drugs

The Food and Drug Administration is trying to figure out, once and for all, if popular osteoporosis pills can increase the risk of throat cancer. For now, the agency said the benefits of the medicines in reducing the risk of bone fractures in people with osteoporosis still outweigh the risks. The drugs belong to a [...]

Obama: ‘Gang Of Six’ Plan Is Endorsement Of ‘Balanced Approach’

The “Gang of Six” bipartisan plan has emerged as a possible framework for a deficit-reduction deal because it has “Republican senators acknowledging that revenues need to be part of a balanced package and you had Democratic senators acknowledge that we’re going to have to make some difficult spending cuts,” President Obama told NPR this afternoon. [...]

On Location: The Central Florida Of ‘The Yearling’

When Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published her novel The Yearling in 1938, it was an almost instant success, winning her a legion of readers as well as the Pulitzer Prize. MGM bought the film rights to the movie, and its executives agreed with Rawlings that the movie had to be filmed on location — in a [...]

Comic-Con 2011: A Dispatch From The Rabbit Hole

This is my war zone. That’s what I told a producer the other day who has worked in many real, actual war zones right before I left for Comic-Con. He had the good grace to laugh. “It’s probably worse,” he said. This is a crush of nerd passion, a pop culture city-state as regulated as [...]