NPR : TV Finds a (Bleeping) Funny Way Around Profanity "TV shows have been bleeping profanity for years when people speak extemporaneously. In recent years, however, scripted shows have been writing profanity in. The actors say the forbidden words and then the words are bleeped out for comedic effect." @#$@#!

NPR : Dancing All the Dances as Long as I Can "Each morning when I walk through the house on the way to make coffee, I turn on the music, hit the "shuffle" button and it’s Dance Time! I dance alone to whatever is playing. It’s a form of existential aerobics, a moving meditation."

Memories of Obama in New York Differ "Barack Obama does not say much about his years in New York City. The time he spent as an undergraduate at Columbia College and then working in Manhattan in the early 1980s surfaces only fleetingly in his memoir."

Inside Ben Silverman’s Decision to Spin Off a New Series From ‘The Office’ "The proposed NBC spinoff would not include any characters from the original; instead, new characters would be introduced to The Office for the purpose of immediately spinning them off."

NPR : Vibrations Shown to Build Bone, Reduce Fat "Standing on a gently vibrating platform for 15 minutes a day can build bone mass and reduce fat in mice, according to a new study. The changes are due to a stem cell in bone marrow that can become muscle, bone or fat."