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"Here's a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note."

In 1967, mathematician Ed Thorp revolutionized Wall Street with a method of using math and computers to predict the future of the stock market — and his hedge fund has been profitable ever since. Thorp's story, and those of many other market-driven math whizzes, is told in Scott Patterson's new book The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.

Hundreds of thousands of customers in North Carolina and South Carolina are without power. One N.C. official warned that part of the state will see "between a 500-year and 1,000-year flood event."

You've got only 4,000 weeks to live, give or take. While that may come as a brutal dose of reality, it's also an opportunity to think about how you're spending that time.

Some top researchers now say that climate change has led to stronger hurricanes. Now, there's a push to expand the wind scale to include a Category 6 for winds as powerful as those seen last year.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Afghan-American artist Ariana Delawari about her latest album, I Will Remember.

President Biden spoke at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day about the country's "obligation" to provide veterans with adequate care, describing it a nonpartisan issue.

Psychotherapist Merle Bombardieri has been helping couples with this conundrum for decades. She shares four exercises to bring clarity to the situation — and find a solution that minimizes regret.

From war to injustice and religious extremism, the documentary finalists are thematically harrowing stories from around the world. Each is a triumph of storytelling and craft.

Students across the country are headed back to campus for fall classes. With the delta variant raging, there are questions around how colleges can pull this semester off.

Surprise billing is one of the rare public policy issues that are both bipartisan and in need of a federal solution. A hearing on Capitol Hill looked to insurers and providers to help figure it out.

Pitchers are pressured to throw at maximum effort all the time, despite the harm it does to their bodies.

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats pressed Amy Coney Barrett about her criticism of the legal opinion that saved Obamacare. But she noted that case differs from the one before the court on Nov. 10.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, faces Donald Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, on the debate stage Tuesday. Here's what you should know about Kaine before then.

Author Solomon Jones says death can seem angelic at first — especially to the lost, addicted kids in his book The Last Confession. He says many of his stories come from his own experiences as a homeless drug addict on the streets of Philadelphia.

In the vaccine era, people are wondering if it's (relatively) safe to resume hugs, exchange handshakes, kiss on the cheek or air-kiss.

The former senator, the fifth Democrat to enter the presidential race, has a colorful background as a veteran, author, reporter and defender of the Confederacy.

Over two years after the PlayStation 5 was released, Sony announced the shortage is finally over. Consumers should "have a much easier time" finding a console, an exec said.

A new study has examined the potential ramifications of declining an invitation for a social outing, and found that people tend to overestimate just how much it matters.

In Seoul, South Korea, a U.S. Army criminal investigator is charged with settling the spirit of a long dead American solider in Seoul, Korea. This book is the sixth in Martin Limon's Sueno and Bascom series.

Drugmakers long ceased to be the only villain of the insulin price scandal. While Lilly is cutting the list price and others may follow, will other "parties" (i.e. pharmacy benefit managers) cause the cost to increase before it hits the pharmacy counter?

Last week the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released the results of a global study looking at the effect of technology on…

After facing public outcry and cancelled accounts, Bank of America abandoned plans to impose a monthly five dollar fee for debit card users. Twenty-two-year-old Molly Katchpole drew in more than 300,000 signatures for her online petition drive against the bank. She speaks with host Michel Martin.

When pianist Teddy Wilson joined Benny Goodman's quartet in the mid 1930's, he broke the color barrier in jazz more than ten years before Jackie Robinson did it in baseball. Ever since, many musicians...including guitarist Jim Hall...have believed that jazz was an oasis of racial harmony. But perhaps just as many musicians don't feel that way. A look at race and jazz, from reporter Dean Olsher.

IVF is super expensive and people who really want kids take extreme measures to pay for it. Some take up a 2nd job, others go into debt, while others dip into their 401Ks.