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Over half of the 7.5 billion humans on Earth live in just seven countries. What will the planet's population picture look like in 2100?

Rock critic KEN TUCKER picks the best pop music of 1994. He reviews his ten favorite new albums: The Mavericks, "What a Crying Shame" (MCA); Sam Phillips, "Martinis and Bikinis" (Virgin); L7, "Hungry for Stink" (Warner Bros.); Joni Mitchell, "Turbulent Indigo" (Warner Bros.); Pearl Jam, "Vitalogy" (Epic); Liz Phair, "Whip-Smart" (Atlantic); Sugar, "File Under Easy Listening" (Rykodisc); Oasis, "Definitely Maybe" (Sony); Madonna, "Bedtime Stories" (Warner Bros.); and Pretenders, "Last of the Independents" (Warner Bros.). His runners-up include Sheryl Crow's "Tuesday Night Music Club", Richard Thompson's "Mirror Blue", and Mark Chesnutt's, "What a Way to Live". TUCKER plays some samples of the top ten and talks about what's alternative and what's mainstream.

A slow fade, rather than a hard stop, used to be the popular way to end a pop song. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Slate reporter William Weir about the fade-out's history and recent decline.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-997067.mp3Albany, NY – Well Jerry Sandusky's lawyer says he will not negotiate a plea…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-997810.mp3Albany, NY – Well make it 30 straight non-Big East Conference home victories…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-1001546.mp3Albany, NY – Well thousands watched with a sense of subdued somberness as…

By Susan Barnetthttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-988223.mp3Albany, NY – Hurricane Irene roared up the East Coast and…

Wells paved the way for women in country by defying the wisdom of her time.

Fabius presided over December's landmark climate agreement and helped to negotiate the nuclear deal with Iran.

Brain maps constructed by MRI show that language meaning is distributed throughout the brain's outer layer. And it turns out that different people organize language in similar ways.