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Researchers argue that play is vital to our lives — even as adults. NPR's Life Kit has tips for prioritizing play in your life.

Lyon-based Compagnie Käfig will bring down the curtain on the summer season at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Mass., with Pixel, a blend of dance and technology, running today through Sunday. According to the Pillow, Pixel “aims to strike a subtle balance between the real and the virtual world, and between energy and poetry, resulting in a performance infused with a multitude of art forms.” (Fri, Aug 25-Sun, Aug 27)

The Daily Show correspondent recalls the impact American brunch had on his Indo-Muslim upbringing, and the benefits of resembling Michael Jackson as a teenager.

In Ebony & Ivy, an MIT historian details how the nation's colleges helped justify and benefited from the slave trade.

Students, parents, teachers, and alumni of the Lake Avenue Elementary School in Saratoga Springs celebrated 100 years of history this weekend.

Robert G. Edwards, a British physiologist who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for helping develop in vitro fertilization, died Wednesday. He was 87. Audie Cornish talks with Rob Stein about Edwards' work and the controversy that still surrounds the techniques he helped create.

Green energy advocates are promoting wind and solar facilities' compatibility with grazing animals, hoping to counter local opposition to new wind and solar projects.

Renowned soul and gospel singer Cissy Houston has died. She was part of a extraordinary musical family that included Dionne Warwick and her superstar daughter, Whitney Houston.

Fifty years ago, Charlie Brown lost his beach ball. It was gone forever, that is, until a boy named Franklin returned it to him.

Football season is nearly here, and the Cleveland Browns are looking good.