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This is a re-creation of a color plate from <em>Interaction of Color, </em>by Josef Albers. The two X's are are exactly the same — it's the different backgrounds that make them look like very different colors.

These X's Are The Same Shade, So What Does That Say About Color?

Never mind the physics. Color isn't just a particular wavelength of light, it turns out. It's a fascinating mix of context and what's happening outside and inside your head.

Sen. Michael Bennet on why he's in favor of a TikTok ban

Senator Michael Bennet has joined calls from several other lawmakers to ban TikTok from Apple and Google app stores. NPR's Michel Martin asks him what makes the app a national security risk.

<em></em>Wish on stars in <em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons</em> and the next morning, jewel-bright star fragments will wash up on your beaches.

A Year Of Falling Stars, Evening Swims And Friendship: Animal Crossing Turns One

Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out a year ago and quickly became the game of the pandemic era, offering a candy-colored fantasy world where the occasional bug bite is the worst that can happen.

Jose Alfredo Rosas Luly works on packing up peaches as Napoleon Caromla builds cardboard bushel boxes at Flamm Orchards in Cobden, Illinois. A cold spell in late December damaged peach crops across southern Illinois, with some orchards estimating nearly a 90% loss.<br/>

Peaches are in short supply this year after weather pitfalls in the Midwest and South

Warm weather in the South and cold weather in the Midwest knocked out a significant number of the nation’s peach crop this year, leaving a shortage across the country.

A new digital platform called Simpsons World features all 25 years of episodes. FX says it is trying to cater to both old-fashioned TV fans and people who watch shows on other devices.

In An Online, On-Demand Age, TV Reruns Are Redefined

FX's new digital platform, Simpsons World features all 25 years of episodes from The Simpsons. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says it's also among several sites that are revitalizing the TV rerun.

What to know for Trump's inauguration. And, a Civil Rights icon remembers MLK Jr.

Today is Trump's Inauguration Day. Last night, during a rally, he reiterated promises to sign executive orders. And, Atlanta Civil Rights icon Lonnie C. King recounts a historic moment with MLK Jr.

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, pictured at a Capitol news conference, backed a measure to allow holders of a Temporary Visitor Driver's License to be eligible for a standard license regardless of their immigration status.

Illinois to make standard driver’s licenses available to noncitizens regardless of immigration status

Temporary visitor’s licenses will be replaced with document that can be used as ID

Food Fare At Iowa State Fair

NPR's Lakshmi Singh speaks with Des Moines Register food critic Brian Taylor Carlson about the good, the bad and the ugly new food offerings at this year's Iowa State Fair. Pickle beer, anyone?

Islam Mubarak as Sakina in <em>You Will Die at Twenty</em>, the first Sudanese film submitted for an Academy Award.

'You Will Die At Twenty' Is Sudan's First Ever Academy Awards Entry

The film is first Sudanese feature made in 20 years, and only the seventh ever to come from the country. It's being submitted for consideration for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

Tech workers said they saw unusually high numbers of men in a monster line for a career expo at a tech conference aimed at elevating women and nonbinary workers.

'You could feel the cutthroatness': Droves of men took over this women's tech fair

Organizers of the Grace Hopper Celebration said some men lied about their gender to gain access to a space designed to help women and nonbinary tech workers meet with hiring managers.

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