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Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number.

A 1970s explosion in affordable music gear, particularly synthesizers and drum machines, yielded fascinating experiments by amateur artists. A new compilation collects electronic soul gems from that era.

William H. Gass' fiction has been a secret handshake among brainy readers for years. Critics universally adored The Tunnel, his 1995 opus, even though it was nearly impossible to read. With Middle C, Gass has given us another dense, suffocating novel about language and the self.

The poet Langston Hughes liked to wryly describe the Harlem Renaissance -- the years from just after World War I until the Depression when black literature and art flourished, fed by an awakening racial pride -- as "the period when the Negro was in vogue." Note the past tense. Two new books published Tuesday explore the blossoming of black cultural life in two different decades.

This year, Marine Corps aviation is celebrating its centennial, which was made possible through the efforts and dedication of Marines like 98-year-old Frank Baron Jr., who served in San Diego in the 1930s.

Polls in the three largest battleground states -- Florida, Virginia and Ohio -- have closed, but it will be some time before the results are known. NPR has called other states, and no surprises here: President Obama has won Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Illinois, Maine, Maryland and Rhode Island. Gov. Romney has won Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

President Obama has won the key battleground state of Ohio, narrowing the path to victory for Mitt Romney. The president has also won three other key states, New Hampshire, Iowa and Pennsylvania. If Obama holds the "Midwestern firewall" -- by winning Wisconsin -- he can cede Virginia and Florida to Romney and still win the election.

Nursing employees suffer 35,000 back and other injuries nearly every year. But many career-ending injuries could be prevented if hospitals brought in new technology and taught "safe patient handling."

"Who am I to judge?" With those five words, Pope Francis "stepped away from the disapproving tone, the explicit moralizing typical of popes and bishops," writes columnist James Carroll.

Polls in the three largest battleground states -- Florida, Virginia and Ohio -- have closed, but it will be some time before the results are known. NPR has called other states, and no surprises here: President Obama has won Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Illinois, Maine, Maryland and Rhode Island. Gov. Romney has won Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma.