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Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Babel or The Necessity of Violence, Sultana's Dream, La última copa/The Last Cup, and Brick.

An ethnobotanist travels into the Sahara Desert to research the vanishing customs of Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center. In the first of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis for the start of a project to document disappearing cultures of the world.

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to move forward with considerations on a proposal for new open Internet rules. What exactly is in the proposal?

People buy and sell memorable domain names, like tv.com or cool.com, sometimes for millions of dollars. Planet Money explores why one premium domain — milk.com — is curiously undeveloped.

Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously upholds the decision to ban social media platform X nationwide.

Scientists are still trying to identify what a healthy gut microbiome looks like, but new research may offer a clue.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the Central and South Coasts has surged past the 6,000 mark. 647 new cases were reported in the region…

A growing number of companies say it's a way to keep workers. Critics call it another leg up for families that can already afford counseling.

The teenager's friends and family had been looking for him. He was found buried underneath several feet of sand.

How are we consuming long, in-depth pieces of journalism in the digital age? Audie Cornish asks Max Linsky, co-founder of the popular curated site of long reads, longform.org. He tracks just what's popular, and who's actually reading what.