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Pop icon has new book about hitchhiking across America

The last NASA space shuttle mission into space has ended. Atlantis and its four crew members arrived at the Kennedy Space Center just before 6 a.m. ET.

Social networks now hold tremendous power to regulate online speech. Their rules for allowable comments, art and video govern billions of posts worldwide each day. And while Twitter users enjoy a great deal of freedom, Facebook has relatively tight restrictions on what users can say and see.

Cultural products like books, movies and song lyrics can tell us a lot about society and how it changes over time. KPBS arts reporter Angela Carone says a new study from San Diego State looks at how books reflect changing gender roles.

The debut novel of Robin Sloan, a former Twitter and Current TV employee, tells the thoughtful, magical story of Clay, a worker in a mysterious literary emporium. Aside from the occasional groaner insight, the buoyant narrative demonstrates Sloan's gift of charismatic prose.

Watch what you post! Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, logging on to social media, could keep you from landing that great job.

What is striking about all the offshore services available today is that while they are totally legal, the system seems to make it easy to get away with things that are not legal.

The team starts the morning at Karisoke by removing as much dirt and soft tissue as possible from each gorilla bone. This is no easy task; Google a gorilla skull and count the places for grime to hide. These bones need Clorox and a sandblaster to shine. Instead, they get water, a mild detergent and gentle sponging to prevent damage.

Few American mothers could fathom a situation that would force them to leave their children in order to put food in their bellies, clothes on their backs and send them to school. But this is the reality for many Filipina women, who cross oceans in search of jobs that pay enough to provide for their families back home.

Gun control advocates acknowledged they'll face big obstacles in Congress to a new ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. But they say the shooting last month of 20 schoolchildren in Connecticut could make a difference.