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  • Two gay dads share their good, bad and funny experiences of becoming a parent. As part of LGBT Pride Month, host Michel Martin speaks with Dan Bucatinsky author of the new book Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? and Marcus Mabry dad of two and editor-at-large for the New York Times.
  • Neda Ulaby looks at SongPop, a rapidly growing music-identification game.
  • Dan Stevens stars as the android of Maren Eggert's dreams in the German romantic comedy "I'm Your Man."
  • I was planning to address whether the human species is doomed when a hummingbird crossed my path. I’ll explain the connection momentarily. I’d always believed that Homo sapiens was perfectible. Not today or tomorrow. Perhaps not for another hundred thousand years. But eventually we’d get it right. We’d work out the kinks. We’ll ferret out a way to live in harmony.
  • My wife and I recently fulfilled a long-delayed dream. We held a garage sale. If ever there was a home begging to have large quantities of its stuff decommissioned through the agency of folding tables filled with junk it was ours. But we could never seem to do so. Mostly because our house is so far off the road that weekend bargain hunters probably wouldn’t be able to find the place; and also because we don’t really want strangers invading our privacy.
  • There are so many new podcasts to fall in love with this month. Test out the spark with the NPR One team's recommendations from across public media.
  • In the final part of our series on policing in America, NPR's Brian Naylor visits the small town of Lowell, Mass. For veteran police officer Dan Brady, the biggest change in his 19 years on the force has been the federal program that gave towns like Lowell money to hire 100 additional officers. With a 60% drop in the rate of serious crime since the early 1990s and new immigrant communities including a large Cambodian population, the police have learned to work closely with the community.
  • Restaurant workers, taxi drivers, and developmentally disabled people living in congregate settings will now be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in New…
  • The hospitalization rate in New York due to COVID-19 has steadily dropped in recent weeks, according to state data, with two consecutive days of…
  • NSYNC's 2000 smash was the peak of the TRL era, but it was also an outlier — a subtly forward-thinking pop record that got everything right about where the mainstream was headed.
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