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Here's a handy guide to the amorphous and vibrant mimic octopus, courtesy of the webcomic xkcd.

Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky were mega-stars in the Yiddish theater world. Their story is told in a new documentary, written and conducted by their grandson, Michael Tilson Thomas. He also serves as music director of the San Francisco Symphony and artistic director of the New World Symphony.

For years, former sports agent Josh Luchs provided money and other benefits to college athletes, in clear violation of NCAA and NFL Players Association rules. He comes clean in a new memoir, Illegal Procedure.

During arguments both sides faced tough questions from justices about whether striking the individual mandate would mean the death of the entire health care law. The conservative bloc seemed concerned about health insurers, while the liberal bloc worried about usurping congressional powers.

Despite broad international support, the peace plan is in flux. Opposition groups believe that President Bashar Assad is just trying to buy time.

In the new biography Hitler, A.N. Wilson describes the Nazi dictator as the "Demon King of history" but also as an ordinary and even boring man. "Many of the ideas that he had and expressed ... were ideas that more or less everybody had at that time," Wilson says.

Passengers tackled a JetBlue captain yesterday in mid-flight after he acted erratically and talked about a bomb on board. Retired pilot John Cox, of USA Today's Ask the Captain column, explains what we don't understand about relationships between pilots and crew.

"Trayvon was me," says Tracy Martin. "That was my kid. ... I truly miss him, love him and this hurt won't go away easy." The 17-year-old's shooting death has ignited a national conversation about race.

As community supported agriculture grows in popularity, some farmers are reinterpreting the idea to reach new consumers. Traditionalists worry that people are being diverted from the values that originally defined the CSA movement.

The rapid rise in numbers has prompted calls to declare the developmental disorder an epidemic. But researchers say most if not all of the increase could be due to better recognition of the disorder by parents, doctors and teachers.