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Beware The Weasel

This adorable little villain may have sabotaged the world's most powerful scientific instrument

Oh, sure — weasels can be cute ... until they munch on the power cord to your favorite 17-mile superconducting machine. The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is offline following an apparent run-in with the small mammal.

Or was the culprit a marten?

Have You Ever Heard The 'Rain'?

How it feels to find yourself on the wrong side of a cultural moment, looking in

NPR's Sarah McCammon grew up in a conservative evangelical background, where it was more common to hear people "speak in tongues" than hear Prince on a boombox. So, when her newsfeeds started filling with purple, she was reminded of another kind of loss.

She's not sad about Prince — but let her explain

Eking Out

Could you come up with $400 if disaster struck?

Because almost half of Americans say they couldn't — including people in the middle class. Maybe it's time to stop saying anyone can be rich with just hard work, argues writer Neal Gabler.

Why it's time to re-evaluate "middle class"

It's Elementary

The tale of a tremendous teacher — as told by her fourth-graders

"Like a shoe polisher, she polished us until we shined like stars in the night sky," says one of Marlem Diaz-Brown's students. "But of course, there is no such thing as being too bright!"

See what the rest say

Satan And Things

John Boehner calls Ted Cruz a "miserable son of a bitch." Also, Satan

"Lucifer in the flesh," the former speaker said of the GOP presidential candidate. "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."

But then, this might help Cruz's outsider cred

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