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Two writers dig to the bottom of why other people's bad taste in music bothers us so much, and along the way, lay out the new rules for thinking and writing about pop.

Another Studio Ghibli Winner

Masterpiece Theatre has been an integral part of public broadcasting since its debut, 40 years ago this month. But Alistair Cooke, the show's armchair host, thought it wouldn't last.

Airs Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

In an unexpected twist in the nature vs. nurture debate, young female chimpanzees in a forest in Uganda may be playing with sticks and logs as if they were infants. The females played with their stick dolls twice as much as young male chimps.

Speculation is mounting that Banksy is in San Diego. A piece on the side of a taco shop in Oceanside was possibly created by the mysterious graffiti artist, who has been tagging locations in Los Angeles leading up to the Oscars. However, not everyone thinks the taco shop mural is by Banksy.

U.S. businessman Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911. His blockbuster 1937 book, 400 Million Customers, recently has spawned a crop of imitators, and many of his insights into doing business in China still hold true today.

Researchers at Emory University analyzed hundreds of hours of videotaped gestures used by two groups of chimps and two groups of bonobos. The results of their study could lend a clue to how human language evolved.

In Egypt, political parties are frantically trying to organize, register and make themselves known before elections scheduled for this fall. But there is increasing worry that lawlessness and sectarian strife could lead ordinary Egyptians to favor postponing the revolution in favor of stability.

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