Fresh Air for February 28, 2014
Colm Toibin's novel, The Testament of Mary, imagines the life of the mother of Christ in her later years. Steve Heap/iStockphoto hide caption
Colm Toibin's novel, The Testament of Mary, imagines the life of the mother of Christ in her later years. Steve Heap/iStockphoto hide caption
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a new TV series called Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey. It's an update of the influential 1980 PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Journey, hosted by Carl Sagan. Patrick Eccelsine/Fox hide caption
A vehicle inside the U.S. Consulate compound in Benghazi is engulfed in flames after an attack on Sept. 11, 2012. "There is no evidence whatsoever that al-Qaida or any group linked to al-Qaida played a role in organizing or leading the attack," says New York Times correspondent David Kirkpatrick. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A fireboat sits amid ruins and debris on the piers at Black Tom Island in Jersey City, N.J., on July 30, 1916. Evidence pointed to German sabotage. In Dark Invasion, Howard Blum explores Germany's spy network and sabotage efforts in the U.S. at the beginning of World War I. AP hide caption
Ramis, shown here in Chicago in 2009, died of complications related to autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis on Monday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for The Second City hide caption
Eric Dolphy in Copenhagen, 1961. JP Jazz Archive/Redferns hide caption
Sure, you can try doing your Internet browsing this way, but we can't promise that it will help you protect your personal data online. iStockphoto hide caption
Vertical Scratchers. Joseph Amario/Courtesy of the artist hide caption