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More than 80 percent of our poll participants were able to tell the difference between hot and cold water just by listening to the sound of the liquid pouring.

Pro-democracy protesters have replaced barricades in the congested Mong Kong district of the city hours after authorities dismantled the obstacles.

How The Big Lebowski's Dude is schooling us all in the ways of the Zen. Its all in the abiding.

Listen as Broadway star Crisitin Milioti (of Once) goes head to head against another Jersey native in an Ask Me Another Challenge about the fascinating people and ingenious inventions that were birthed by the Garden State. Plus, Jonathan Coulton takes us out with a cover of Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer."

Bob Boilen goes to the CMJ Music Marathon to discover new favorite bands. Here are a few of his picks from the thousands of bands playing in New York this week.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have uncovered an overlooked way cockroaches evade us. The bugs have an amazing ability to run fill-tilt to the edge of a countertop, table or bookshelf, flip to the other side and keep going without missing a beat.

Rafalca, a 15-year-old Oldenburg mare, and her rider qualified for the Olympics this weekend. The Romneys' involvement in dressage, often considered the snobbiest of the horse sports, has brought the event considerable attention of late — including mocking from Stephen Colbert.

In August, Capt. Robin Walbridge talked with a Maine video journalist about how the HMS Bounty could handle rough seas. Monday, the ship sank off the coast of North Carolina as Hurricane Sandy roared through. Walbridge is missing. One crew member is dead. Fourteen were rescued.

Irv Gordon has been driving, and driving, and driving some more, since he bought the P1800S in 1966. "I have a feeling I'll be dead long before the car," says the retired school teacher.

The new service is years in the making and has some critics asking if it's too little too late.