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Crazy Bad Luck: It's Friday The 13th With A Full Moon

The next time this phenomenon will happen is Aug. 13, 2049.

Online Symptom Checkers Can't Replace The Real-Life Doc Just Yet

More than a third of U.S. adults turn to the Internet for help diagnosis their illnesses themselves. But how trustworthy are the results?

The seafloor spreads along tectonic ridges and faults, marked by the red dots overlaying this region of the Indian Ocean, Oct. 2, 2014.

San Diego Scientists Map Unseen Features Of Ocean Floor

Scientists are just now mapping thousands of underwater mountains on the seafloor for the first time.

Rangers practice their riding skills at Zakouma National Park in Chad. The park has four mounted ranger teams because horses are the only way to effectively patrol during the wet season, when the elephants head to drier land outside the park.

GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching. Journalist Bryan Christy wanted to see where their tusks were going, so he ordered fake tusks and fitted them with trackers.

SD Teen Among Top Google Science Fair Finalists

It all started when Jonah Kohn, an eight grader at the San Diego Jewish Academy, was sitting in his music class. He had a problem: the class was so loud that he couldn't hear his guitar.

Taneka Armstrong, 20, is learning about different aspects of the tech industry — from coding to sales — through the nonprofit group Hack the Hood.

Next To Silicon Valley, Nonprofits Draw Youth Of Color Into Tech

Programs like Hack the Hood try to help young people in Oakland, Calif., find a gateway into the high-tech industry — and out of "dead-end" jobs.

AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK'S ILLUSTRATED: Almond Cake And British Scones

Airs Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

A 2012 installation in the small Italian village of Corigliano d'Otranto celebrates the philosophies of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and their search for a better way of life.

The Truth Is, Philosophy Rules Your World

A remarkable new book brings Plato back to teach us how to make our lives matter and why philosophy is here to stay. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser can't recommend it enough.

Host Christopher Kimball and equipment expert Adam Ried review colanders in the Equipment Corner.

AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK'S ILLUSTRATED: Pasta Rustica

Airs Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Texas Education Panel OKs New History, Social Studies Textbooks

The 10-5 vote in the Republican-controlled panel was along party lines. The outcome is significant because Texas with it 5 million students has a large impact on the national textbook market.

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