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NPR's Joe Palca reports on a global warming study by Stanford University scientists in today's issue of the journal Science. The study relied on gambling records from an annual guessing game in Anchorage, Alaska. The game began in 1917 when engineers building a railroad bridge had to stop because of ice. The engineers then passed their time by placing bets on when the ice would break up.

NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg asks artists to select a piece of music that they'd like the country to hear right now.

Radio producer Marika Partridge sent us this audio postcard. It's comprised of audio tapes recorded in Afghanistan in 1969. The tapes were made when Marika's mom and dad took her and her brother on a one-year journey from India to Europe by car. We hear her family's impressions of the country more than 30 years ago, which at the time seemed to be a place of promise - where modern mixed with ancient, and a place filled with bright friendly people with an admirable spirit of independence.

NPR's John Burnett visits a school on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where Afghan women and girls are learning to read and write. The classes are sponsored by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and they would be illegal in the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan. Some of the women describe their treatment under the harsh Taliban rule.

Rumors and urban legends have been flying around the Internet at an accelerated rate since Sept. 11. The most popular is the "Nostradamus Prophecy" of "two brothers" -- i.e. the twin towers -- falling and leading to World War II. There's also an allegation that CNN aired 10-year-old footage of Palestinians celebrating. Most have been debunked to one extent or another but NPR's Rick Karr reports that some offer us a kind of truth.

Mitch Teich of member station KNAU reports on a public elementary school in Flagstaff, Arizona, that has its own observatory.

All Things Considered host Robert Siegel speaks with Sari Nusseibeh, the newly appointed top political representative for the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem, on the path for peace and the need for moderation and reason in the Middle East.

Every day in Texas, more than a hundred people walk out of the state's prison headquarters as free men. The Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas is where all male prisoners are processed for release. Producer Dan Collison went to Huntsville to talk to some inmates just about to make their return to the outside world.

The Senate-approved Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time permanent in 2023. But some sleep experts say we're about to settle on the wrong time.

As more evidence emerges of Russian troops torturing and executing civilians in Ukraine, Germany is under pressure to cut off a major income stream currently funding Putin's war.