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Alexandra Jones-Twaddell and Malley Chertkov add a Christmas tree to the growing line in Island Beach State Park in February 2013. Similar dune restoration projects — using trees as a foundation to trap sand — will be carried out this year all along the Atlantic Coast.

Tree-Incarnation: Christmas Trees Return To Nature (A Poem)

Americans buy about 30 million live trees every year. Many end up as mulch, but in some communities they help rebuild dunes, create fish habitat and feed zoo animals. Hear the story of arborial resurrection in anapestic tetrameter.

Want Perfect Pitch? You Might Be Able To Pop A Pill For That

A Harvard study says a drug normally used as a mood stabilizer might allow adults with no musical experience to learn perfect pitch.

Neonatal nurse Florence Mwenifumbo monitors a newborn receiving bubble CPAP treatment in Blantyre, Malawi. The device was developed by students at Rice University in Houston.

Saving Babies' Lives Starts With Aquarium Pumps And Ingenuity

Students at Rice University in Houston are finding low-cost solutions to big global health problems. One particularly successful device that helps infants breathe has already been tested in Malawi.

Yumi Sakugawa's book <em>I Think I Am In Friend Love With You </em>helps define the joys of modern friendships.

Comic Artist Yumi Sakugawa On Friend-Love, Identity And Art

How should you tell your friends that you're in friend-love with them? Sakugawa, the artist and author of I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You shares what inspires her work.

Revenues, But Not Profits, Soar For Hollywood In 2013

Hollywood set records at the box office in 2013. NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with Stephen Galloway of the Hollywood Reporter about the year in movies, from big budget flops to the awards season logjam, and what to expect in 2014.

If you're in a blue or purple zone, you're going to be cold tonight.

Nation Turns Blue As Temperatures Continue To Plunge

You need to look at only one map to see how cold it's going to be across nearly the entire nation. In the upper Midwest, wind chills will once again be down around 40 degrees below zero. Freezing temperatures are expected as far south as Texas and Florida.

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck dives over the goal line in the fourth quarter of his team's 45-44 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Was Luck's TD The Most Amazing Moment Of A Wild NFL Weekend?

Watch the replay as Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck scoops up a fumble and stretches across the goal line against Kansas City. During a weekend of four close games in which three weren't settled until the last minute, was that the highlight of highlights?

Chinese-American author Qiu Xiaolong sets his mysteries in Shanghai and uses famous landmarks for scenes in his novels, like this 1930s mansion that's been converted into a hotel.

In Fast-Changing China, Reality Can Overtake Fiction

Qiu Xiaolong has written eight detective novels based in his hometown of Shanghai. Qiu, who lives in St. Louis, embraces the advantages and problems of writing detective fiction in the Internet era, when Chinese people know so much more dirt about their system and leaders.

Nicholas Simmons in the photo that helped his family find him.

Missing N.Y. Man Found In D.C., Thanks To AP Photograph

Nicholas Simmons, 20, hadn't been seen since New Year's Day. On Sunday, USA Today published a photo of him. The young man was in Washington, D.C., trying to keep warm on a steam grate. His family saw the picture. With help from the newspaper, an AP photographer and police, their loved one was found.

Geoffrey Rush plays an obsessive art auctioneer in <em>The Best Offer, </em>a mystery-cum-romance from the director of <em>Cinema Paradiso.</em>

From 'Cinema Paradiso' Director, An Offbeat 'Offer'

Guiseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) turns in an English-language romance-cum-mystery about an art auctioneer (Geoffrey Rush) obsessed with a young heiress and collector (Sylvia Hoeks). With Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland.

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