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  • More than a half-million bottles of Tylenol for babies have been recalled because of complaints about a new system for getting the dose right. The doughnut-like receptacle for the syringe seen in the neck of the bottle can get pushed down into the liquid medicine.
    Johnson & Johnson Recalls Infants' Tylenol That's Too Hard To Use
    A newly designed bottle and syringe that were supposed to make it easier to give a baby the right dose of Tylenol have drawn complaints from parents. The system is too difficult to use.
  • Children in Tripoli, Libya, wave a national flag from a car as people celebrate the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Libya's revolution, Feb. 16 2012.
    The Libyan Art Of Honking
    Libyans mark one-year anniversary of uprising with a cacophony of celebratory horn honking
  • Let X = X. Oh! This is fun!
    Math Professor Laura Taalman talks about the joy (really?) of higher mathematics and Sudoku.Brainfreeze PuzzlesNote: The second audio file above is the…
  • The Cairo Rooster
    Bob Bersson debuts a new occasional feature on The Spark, short, creative non-fiction, with his story “The Cairo Rooster.”
  • Won’t You Celebrate With Me
    JMU student Shanell Dowling reads “Won’t You Celebrate With Me” a poem by Lucille Clifton, in honor of Black History Month.
  • Fresh Air Remembers War Reporter Anthony Shadid
    New York Times war correspondent Anthony Shadid, a frequent guest on Fresh Air, died Thursday after apparently suffering a fatal asthma attack in Syria, where he was reporting on the political uprising. Fresh Air remembers Shadid with excerpts from his December 2011 appearance on the show.
  • Linda Cardellini plays a vet who returns from overseas with no way to make sense of where she was and what it meant in director Liza Johnson's new drama <em>Return</em>.
    A Veteran's 'Return' To The Front Lines Of Home
    In Liza Johnson's drama, Return, Linda Cardellini plays a vet who returns from her time overseas with no way to make sense of where she was and what it meant. Critic David Edelstein says the film's lack of a traditional story arc makes it seem even more real.
  • Sucre in New Orleans is one of many bakeries that leaves the plastic baby out of the king cake.
    Is That A Plastic Baby Jesus In My Cake?
    How a mysterious traveling salesman made a porcelain baby Jesus a Mardi Gras tradition.
  • #Feb17: A First Visit To Revolution Central: The Benghazi Courthouse
    Celebrations abound in Benghazi, but the courthouse is special. It was the scene of some of the first protests in Libya.
  • Should Sugar Be Regulated Like Alcohol?
    Writing in the journal Nature, UCSF pediatrician Robert Lustig and colleagues suggest regulating sugar just like alcohol and tobacco--with taxes and age limits, for example--due to what they call the "toxic" effects of too much sweet stuff. Education, they say, is not enough.
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