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California Bill Would Update Law On Collection Of Electronic Data

A bill that would require California government agencies to obtain warrants to access private email, social media and other electronic communications faces a key vote in the Assembly on Thursday.

Amir Pinkney-Jengkens, 8, is learning trombone through Harmony Project, a nonprofit that provides musical instruments and instruction to children in low-income communities. Recent research suggests that such musical education may help improve kids' ability to process speech.

This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Music

A new study suggests that learning to play a musical instrument helps improve the brain's ability to process language. That means music lessons could give kids from low-income communities a big boost.

A class for beginning flutists, crammed into an office building boardroom, labor over "Hot Cross Buns." It's part of Harmony Project, a nonprofit program offering music lessons in a wide range of instruments — flute, trombone, trumpet, oboe, violin, cello, drums — to kids from some of Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods. The instruments are provided, and the lessons are free.

This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Music.

A new study suggests that learning to play a musical instrument helps improve the brain's ability to process language. That means music lessons could give kids from low-income communities a big boost.

iPads In Special Ed: What Does The Research Say?

There's 8 million iPads in the classroom, but only a few thousand studies of their effectiveness.

A honey badger is in confrontation stance, tail up, ready for action, Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, South Africa.

NATURE: Honey Badgers: Masters Of Mayhem

Airs Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Can you name the 10 emotions conveyed above? The first six are basic emotions. The last four are complex emotions that combine two of the basic ones. (Check at the bottom for the answers.)

How Your Face Shows Happy Disgust

Scientists are studying the way we show complex emotions. It turns out we're better at it than was previously thought, mixing and matching basic expressions with sophistication — and consistency.

Why Not Apologizing Makes You Feel Better

Expressing regret may grease the social wheels, but not doing so boosts your sense of power, control and self-worth. Try explaining that to your boss.

The Tyler Florence Thanksgiving meal from Williams-Sonoma goes for $399.95.

Got A Thanksgiving Time Crunch? Food Is Just (A Few) Clicks Away

If you're scrambling to find the perfect cranberry sauce or a sumptuous dessert, the Internet can help. We've rounded up services to help you spend less time waiting in line and more time with family.

Christopher Kimball and the cast of AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK'S ILLUSTRATED, the most-watched cooking show on public television and a 2012 Daytime Emmy® nominee, use a common-sense, practical approach to solve everyday cooking problems and help viewers save time and money.

America's Test Kitchen From Cook's Illustrated: Simply Chicken

Airs Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV

Ana Edwards, the chief opponent of the Shockoe Bottom stadium proposal, talks about historical markers at the Lumkin Jail historical site in Richmond, Va.

Richmond, Va., Wrangling Over Future Of Historic Slave Trade Site

More than 300,000 African and African-American slaves were sold in Shockoe Bottom. Today, residents and city officials are debating how to preserve the area: Memorial or stadium and museum?

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