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This week in the Barbershop, the guys talk about the best and worst moments so far at the London Olympics. They'll also weigh in on the controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A after the company's CEO Dan Cathy shared his view of same-sex marriage. Host Michel Martin checks in with writer Jimi Izrael; professor Lester Spence; civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar; and journalist Fernando Vila.

Photographer Roman Vishniac, perhaps most famous for documenting Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, was also a pioneer of cinemicroscopy — filming through a microscope. Flora Lichtman looks back at Vishniac's science cinema and talks to Dutch photographer Wim van Egmond about how he makes his award-winning images and videos of microorganisms.

Next Wednesday marks the SPAC conducting debut of Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s music director designate. Nezet-Seguin also conducts…

What is the role of humans in climate change? "Call me a converted skeptic," physicist Richard Muller wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Times this week, describing his analysis of data from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. Though Muller was once a notable skeptic regarding studies connecting human activity to climate change, he has now concluded that "humans are almost entirely the cause" of global warming.

We welcome Jim Rossi, co-owner of Saratoga Polo Club - and he gives us a lesson on the sport of kings.

Whoever wins the U.S. presidency, an upstate New York bottler will be a winner.U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says that water from the Saratoga Springs…

A study from Australia finds that the current vaccine for whooping cough wanes more quickly than expected, which may be helping to fuel the epidemic that's been plaguing the West Coast of the U.S.

Readers weigh in on how language should be handled in a "nation of immigrants."

Our panelists tell three stories about un-authorized Olympic tie-ins.

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: First up: We're going to need a slower boat.