Oct 31st, 2004 · Even before political parties were the bureaucracies they are today, the tenor and nature of political dialogue was scurrilous. In 1800, the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson marked the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties. Hear professor Richard Beeman and NPR's Liane Hansen.
Oct 26th, 2004 · NPR's Debbie Elliott explores the nature of sports fandom with author Warren St. John. His lifetime passion for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide leads him to spend a football season with fellow fans who travel in vast recreational vehicles to every game -- no exceptions.
Oct 16th, 2004 · NPR's Linda Wertheimer takes a moment to note that the final resting place of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Sunset Hills Memorial Park, is switching from natural grass to artificial turf.
Oct 7th, 2004 · The earliest-known ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex -- the prehistoric world's most famous predator -- sported short "protofeathers," scientists report in the latest issue of the journal Nature. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.
Oct 5th, 2004 · The Bush Administration decides to suspend plans to open up Montana's Rocky Mountain Front to oil and gas development. The Interior Department will halt a $1-million environmental review and will not allow natural gas drilling. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.
Oct 5th, 2004 · The Bureau of Land Management puts a halt to plans to drill for natural gas on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana. The ban may be temporary, depending on future reviews of the energy development potential of public lands. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.
Sep 29th, 2004 · NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with science writer Steve Olson about his article in the current issue of the journal Nature. With professors Joseph Change and Douglas Rohde, Olson writes that a new statistical model shows that all human beings have a common ancestor, who lived just 3,500 years ago.
Sep 29th, 2004 · The earth hums, emitting a tone too low for human ears to detect. Geophysicists have finally located the source of the noise. As they report in this week's issue of the journal Nature, it comes from the globe's largest oceans during winter, apparently the result of powerful winter storms. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.