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San Diego is paying $550,000 to Iowa-based Cartegraph Systems Inc. to do the assessment, which will take six months. A report on the findings will be released in eight or nine months.

A classic French dish, confit de canard was originally a way to preserve meat, and traditional recipes can require dozens of steps to prepare. David Lebovitz's fake take cuts the steps down to five.

For your weekend, here are four recommendations: How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became an Internet meme, how "The Great Wave" went viral, a profile of Hugh Hewitt and why 4Chan's founder walked away.

It's time for our Friday round-up of the tech and culture stories from NPR and beyond. Here we go ...

Russian hackers tried a phishing scheme, a White House operator didn't believe the caller was actually Clinton, and she panicked after being unable to find her local NPR station.

The search giant's foray into the market lets users read its electronic books on any Internet-connected device -- except Amazon's Kindle.

Researchers found armchair socialists – and their right-wing counterparts were more physically active than centrists. Another tongue-in-cheek study in the journal concluded that men are idiots.

There's a growing tendency to bring the tiny hieroglyphs off of phones, but not everyone is fluent. New takes on emoji integration suggest misunderstanding may be remedied with universal translation.

A splash of milk for your coffee might pass, but helping yourself to a whole sandwich? Like any controversial office issue, the ethical lines that cut through the fridge aren't so clear.

When 3,000 average citizens were asked to forecast global events, some consistently made predictions that turned out to be more accurate than those with classified intelligence.