Pile ups and loop outs...This week's Friday Fails has it all!
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2024 was a banner year for the cross-country riders on Team USA.
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Complete with a Shiver and 26" wheels.
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Showing off the best parts of the Swiss riding scene, both on small and on big bikes.
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All the tech from the last <i>two</i> months.
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Kicking things off with a breakdown of the demographic of this year's community survey respondents.
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Time to drill down into the cold, hard cash.
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Another next-level build from Mr. Dangerholm.
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The most-desired bike brands, what travel Pinkbike readers expect their next bike will have, and whether you're sold on mullets.
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NASA scientists used a neural network called ExoMiner to examine data from Kepler, increasing the total tally of confirmed exoplanets in the universe.

Not everything that crosses a supermassive black hole’s accretion disc gets spaghettified, astrophysicists say.

High school scientists dazzled us with their innovations—while new studies revealed insights about math mastery and how we can prepare young people for real-world challenges.

Scientific advancements helped humans push through both the pandemic and the atmosphere this year, and a long-awaited visit from some underground insects set the country abuzz.

Exercise could be a powerful defense against Alzheimer’s disease. Three dementia researchers explain how it works.

Seawater might seem like an obvious solution to water scarcity, but it comes at a cost.

Introducing the 2023 NOVA Science Studio student producers who reported on local climate change impacts and solutions

Meet the 2022—2023 NOVA Science Studio student-producers who covered a wide variety of science stories including invasive species and sea level rise, as well as how farm to table restaurants may reduce carbon emissions.

Engage your students with science journalism about issues in their communities with the NOVA Science Studio program!

Meet the 2023 – 2024 NOVA Science Studio student-producers who covered a wide variety of big data science stories

Netflix's film is based on a 1955 novel about a man who goes in search of the father he’d never met — only to discover that his father is dead, and the village he inhabited is haunted by ghosts.

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading for anyone whose wonder could use a jumpstart.

In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.

The absolute number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it's been since 1976.

An NPR listener is graduating soon with her MBA. She wants to know if it's OK celebrate her achievement by asking loved ones to buy her gifts from a registry, similar to what people do for weddings.

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited to judge the five entries.

Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her science fiction novel Orbital. The novel follows six international astronauts as they orbit the Earth for one day of their nine-month space mission.

In Heretic, Hugh Grant plays the villain. He tells Morning Edition that actors are drawn to the bad guys "rather than the dreary, goody-two-shoes lead."

Eastwood takes measured aim at the American justice system in a film that centers on a murder trial — and a juror who realizes he may be implicated in the crime.

The versatile actor had hundreds of screen credits to his name, including Platoon, The Rock and Final Destination.

The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions to become her true self as a woman.

This Spanish-language musical about a cartel boss who undergoes gender-affirming surgery won two big prizes at Cannes, including a shared best actress award for its four women leads.

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Emilia Pérez is Netflix's new divisive musical about a Mexican cartel boss who disappears from the criminal underworld to create a new life as a woman. But when her love for her kids proves overpowering, she ingratiates herself back into their lives, posing as a distant relative. The movie stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, and Selena Gomez.

Artzi, with his vast experience performing for soldiers and civilians through Israel's wars, had said, "I've never seen pain like in this war."

From the horror of the Holocaust to the struggles that the cousins face in the modern day, the movie is about the overall pains of life, film star Jennifer Grey iterated.

In the documentary, Martha Stewart opens up about her childhood and the complicated relationship she had with her father.

Director Wendy Sachs attributes the steep rise in antisemitism to social media, from where so many young people get news that has no validation.

Zakharov tends to the sunny side of life, and he is a major mover and shaker on the Ukrainian cultural scene, with a definite accent on artistic vehicles that seek to cultivate a better world for all

The festival’s opening-night gala will feature the West Coast Premiere of Tom Nesher’s Come Closer at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.