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Play around with Google's latest Doodle, which mimics the iconic Moog Synthesizer. If you can recreate the show's theme song, share it with others.

As Eurovision 2012 captivated Europe this weekend, human rights in host country Azerbaijan also got the spotlight.

It's our 150th episode, but only Stephen Thompson and Glen Weldon are around from the usual gang. So we invite Code Switch's Kat Chow and Gene Demby to come in and talk about a powerful new movie, the technologies they've been slow to embrace and what's making them happy this week.

Researchers are getting clues about the human life cycle from studying the death of tiny worms, which internally release a blue fluorescent dye in the waning hours of their lives. The glowing chemical travels from one end of the creature to the other. One researcher calls it "reminiscent of the soul departing the worm."

Water in all its forms has caused trouble at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant this week. They are reminders that the problems are far from over.

Speed is suspected as a factor in Wednesday's derailment and crash. The death toll is around 80 people and scores more people were injured. "The scene is shocking, it's Dante-esque," a local official says.

What do singer Gotye, Chinese artist Liu Bolin and early 20th century painter Abbott Handerson Thayer have in common? (Here's a hint: Look very, very closely.)

A video tribute to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last weekend convinced New Yorker Editor David Remnick that Clinton is planning to run for president — despite all claims to the contrary.

The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney died this morning in Dublin at the age of 74. In a remembrance, poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher writes that Heaney had mastered sound and nuance, crafting poems you can taste and feel, alive and powerful, as you speak them aloud.

Some of the most incisive and subversive commentary about race continues to come from comedians. Tell us your favorites.