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What "Armageddon" got right about space drilling, and what it (mostly) didn't

By Amy S. Choi
August 16, 2018
From left, Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Bruce Willis, Michael Duncan, Ben Affleck, and Owen Wilson are on a mission to save Earth from an asteroid in “Armageddon.”
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Little about the 1998 blockbuster is true to life, but mining asteroids and comets is "humanity’s future, I’m pretty convinced of that," one expert says.

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How road trips changed America

By Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
July 03, 2018
Author Richard Ratay gets first chance behind the wheel during a family road trip to Santa’s Village in East Dundee Illinois in 1972. He is joined by his sister, Leslie, and two brothers, Mark (rear seat) and Bruce.
Courtesy of Richard Ratay

... and how America changed road trips

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Summer brought to you by: Orlando theme parks

By Renata Sago
July 03, 2018
In this handout image provided by Disney Parks, fireworks light the sky over Cinderella Castle during the Grand Opening of New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World Resort December 6, 2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
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How did this hot and sunny middle Florida city become such a theme park magnet? And how does it keep the tourists coming in the summer months?

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Here’s one reason you pay more for gas in the summer

By Andy Uhler
June 25, 2018

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Rising gas prices could drive some to change travel plans

By Renata Sago
June 15, 2018

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New novel imagines tech industry "solving" childbirth

By Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
June 04, 2018
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Are there some things that just shouldn't be made easier?

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No big movie opening this holiday weekend? It was an "unfortunate series of events"

By Adriene Hill and Bridget Bodnar
September 04, 2017
Moviegoers purchase tickets at an AMC theater in Arcadia, California, in August.
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Pamela McClintock, senior film writer at The Hollywood Reporter, discusses the lackluster ticket sales at movie theaters this summer.

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How did summer get to be such a make-or-break season for Hollywood?

By Ashley Milne-Tyte
July 21, 2017
A poster advertising the anniversary collector's edition of the movie "Jaws" is posted on a lifeguard tower on Zuma Beach in Malibu, California, in 2000. 
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Duuun dun ... duuun dun ... dun dun dun dun dun ...

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Tech songs to fuel your summer

By Kristin Schwab
July 17, 2017
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A playlist of listener favorites, plus a few of our own.

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