Take Two looks at about the negative effects of restricting water in urban environments. We'll also discuss efforts to bring the 1984 Olympic Freeway murals back to life, how seals could have infected early humans with tuberculosis, and we remember the Northridge Earthquake through opera. All this and much more.
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• 5:43
Without a clear image of James Foley's killer, finding him will be a daunting task — but not an impossible one, says Bloomberg News reporter Mike Riley.
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• 5:35
A new UCLA report recommends a tiered pricing system to ease the unintended, negative effects of water conservation strategies among low income residents.
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• 9:12
Jamelle Bouie, staff writer for Slate and Nancy Cook from National Journal join the show to discuss the week that was in our weekly series - the Flashback.
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• 9:46
The new film "Frank," is about a musician by that name, who wears a giant papier-mâché head all the time. Into his band, comes a young man named Jon, modeled after writer Jon Ronson who wrote the screenplay based on some real life people and events.
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• 6:45
More like "Don Obama"? In order to understand the President's foreign policy moves, Harvard professor Stephen Walt says look no further than the Corleones.
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• 5:21
Even though women make up 48 percent of the video game playing market, they're still underrepresented in and by the gaming industry.
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• 6:36
Female superheroes can be great at kicking butt, but Spider-Woman has gotten a lot of negative attention for showing too much of her own.
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• 7:43
This Saturday, "I Looked Up at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky" will be performed for the first time ever in Southern California.
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• 4:53
New research suggests that Native South Americans could have contracted tuberculosis from seals well before any outsiders showed up.
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• 4:49
Two years ago, two Latino men were killed in back-to-back police shootings. The events uncorked longstanding frustrations among minority residents.
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• 5:03
After years of abuse from weather and graffiti, the 1984 Summer Olympics murals painted along the 101 and 110 freeways are coming back to life/
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• 5:26
In light of this week's nationwide recall of peanut and almond butter, a food safety expert explains how peanut butter can get salmonella in it in the first place.