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  • Birmingham Barons outfielder Luis Basabe moves toward a ball in front of the vintage scoreboard in 2019 at Rickwood Field, America's oldest baseball park, in Birmingham, Ala.
    Minor League Baseball To Experiment With Robotic Umpires
    The robot could help rein in different interpretations of the strike zone among umpires. It also limits the ability of catchers to frame a pitch. The machine will appear in select Low-A games.
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    I Believe in Being 18 | Mission Control Blog
    Another ten area high school seniors have been selected by our community committee for the 2021 edition of This I Believe on NPR Illinois. That’s 150…
  • 20-Sided Quiz
    Inspired by their podcast The Adventure Zone, Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy play a trivia game about Dungeons and Dragons.
  • David Bro-ie
    Podcasting brothers Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy enjoy musician Jonathan Coulton's rewrites of David Bowie songs to make them about "bro culture."
  • This That Or The Other: Bridgerton, Sweatpants, Or Potato?
    Comics Shalewa Sharpe and Gastor Almonte (The War Report) analyze whether a given clue is a character from the Netflix series Bridgerton, a brand of sweatpants, or a type of potato.
  • Brothers Travis, Griffin, and Justin McElroy.
    McElroy Brothers
    Hosts of the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy play trivia games about Dungeons & Dragons and talk about their new book Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You).
  • Lucinda Williams (credit Danny Clinch), Marcus King (credit Jamie Stow), Hiss Golden Messenger (credit Graham Tolbert)
    Hear Live Performances From All Five 'Best Americana Album' Grammy Nominees
    Hear live recordings of songs from all of the artists up for best Americana album this Sunday: Lucinda Williams, Marcus King, Hiss Golden Messenger, Courtney Marie Andrews and Sarah Jarosz.
  • A Texas flag flies in front of the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 16, 2020. (LM Otero/AP)
    Texas Lifts Ban On Prison Visits After 1 Year
    Starting Monday, Texas prisoners will be able to see their loved ones in person again with some restrictions. Kirsten Ricketts, who hasn't seen her husband since March 13, 2020, joins us.
  • Three of the women who sing about their plight — and their hopes — on the album <em>I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be</em>. Their names are withheld to protect their physical safety because they have been accused of witchcraft.
    Banished 'Witches' Sing Of Their Pain — And Their Dreams
    In a new recording, women accused of witchcraft in Ghana — and forced to leave their homes — created songs that tell who they are, how they have suffered and what their hopes are.
  • Parsing The Concerns On AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
    The World Health Organization said there's no reason to suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19.
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