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Lourdes Garcia-Navarro talks to Sean Rameswaram, host of the weekly pop culture podcast, Sideshow, about his top picks for the best of the Internet in 2014.

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was etonated in the New Mexico desert. This marked the beginning of the nuclear ge, and the ignited the spark that fired the nuclear arms race. The test-bomb as designed and built with remarkable speed by some of the nation's top hysicists.

Robert talks to Dr. Gary Hack, who teaches at the dental school at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Yesterday he presented a paper on his discovery of a previously undescribed muscle in the face. He says that it is attached behind the eye and to the top of the jaw and helps us to chew. Many anatomists are skeptical, saying that it is highly unlikely that there could be a muscle in the face that was not previously discovered.

A Connecticut legislative committee yesterday heard testimony from one citizen who thinks the state should replace "Yankee Doodle" as the official state song. Certain references, say the citizen, are dated and sexist. We do a top-to-bottom analysis of the song to highlight its other possibly objectionable lyrics.

A look at the Campaign trail for the presidency in Russia. Robert speaks with Scott Bruckner, director of the Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the start of the Russian campaign for president. Bruckner does not see an easy campaign ahead for Boris Yelstin, who, after firing two top aides, potentially damaged loyalty among liberal reformers.

One of the issues most often mentioned by voters this election year is education. The presidential candidates Al Gore andGeorge W. Bush are responding. Both men have made schools and education reform a top priority on the campaign trail. But as NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, what can the president of the United States really do to improve the nation's schools?

As the Bush administration considers war with Iraq, the Pentagon demands the nation's top law schools allow military recruiters on campus or risk losing government funding. NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.

In Colombia, a judge orders the release of Gilberto Rodriguez, imprisoned as one of the country's top drug lords. Investigators scramble to find evidence to bring fresh charges -- and possibly to support Rodriguez's extradition to the United States. Steven Dudley reports.

Commentator Stuart Chiefet (chef-AY) says that with so many people using lap-top computers these days, some entrepreneours could make a fortune by simply offering hackers caught in remote spots an electrical outlet where they can plug in their machines.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that the spat between Greece and Turkey over a disputed island in the Aegean Sea appears to be over. The U.S. intervened yesterday before the dispute exploded into war. President Clinton and top members of his Administration made phone calls to both Greek and Turkish leaders telling them of U.S. concern. The island is only 10-acres. The only inhabitants are goats.