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Ric Edelman's The Truth About Retirement

Airs Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. & Sunday, March 26 at 8 a.m. on KPBS TV

An ad selling cocaine drops for tooth pain, from the book <em>Quackery</em>.

'Quackery' Chronicles How Our Love Of Miracle Cures Leads Us Astray

Tobacco enemas? Mercury pills? Ice pick lobotomies? A new book explains how throughout history, miracle "cures" often didn't just fail to improve people's health, they maimed and killed.

Tape worm pills were once advertised as a way to stay thin.

'Quackery' Chronicles How Our Love Of Miracle Cures Leads Us Astray

Tobacco enemas? Mercury pills? Ice pick lobotomies? A new book explains how throughout history, miracle "cures" often didn't just fail to improve people's health, they maimed and killed.

Judge Abby Abinanti in Yurok Country, Klamath, Calif.

POV: Tribal Justice

Airs Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 3, 2015, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg answers questions during an interview at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Sandberg is in Washington on Capitol Hill this week meeting with lawmakers and investigators.

Investigators Chase Missing Pieces Of Facebook, Twitter Role In Russian Meddling

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is the latest Big Tech emissary to visit Washington, D.C., as scrutiny grows over Russia's online disinformation scheme.

Investigators Chase Missing Pieces Of Facebook, Twitter Role In Russian Mischief

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is the latest Big Tech emissary to visit Washington, D.C., as scrutiny grows over Russia's online disinformation scheme.

Mothers and their babies at Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in the Philippines.

POV: Motherland

Airs Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

The first traffic violation written for driving while wearing Google Glass, Oct. 30, 2013.

Trial To Begin For San Diego Woman Ticketed While Wearing Google Glass

Trial is scheduled Thursday for a Temecula woman who was ticketed for allegedly watching television via a pair of computerized Google glasses while speeding on a San Diego freeway.

Fragments of jars that contained stolen scrolls, found in a cave in cliffs near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in Israel.

Archaeologists Excavate 12th Cave They Say Once Housed Dead Sea Scrolls

A team from the U.S. and Israel says it has found evidence that another cave in Qumran was used to store the ancient manuscripts dating back to the time of Jesus.

A new project by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer takes government data on spending and revenue and turns it into interactive graphics, like this breakdown of spending by local, state and federal governments in 2014.

Former Microsoft CEO Launches New Tool For Finding Government Data

On Tax Day, Steve Ballmer announced USAFacts — a website where anyone can look up where government money comes from, and how it's spent, along with lots of other data.

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