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  • Steffen Schwarz wrote "Will you marry me?" in German across his cornfield and then got his fiancee to fly a drone overhead. She said "yes." A satellite captured the field, and it's on Google Maps.
  • U.S. auto sales last month were the best they've been in more than four years, according to numbers compiled by an industry group. Toyota led the way with more than a 40 percent jump from a year ago. Experts give credit for the boost in sales to cheap financing for car loans, and growing consumer confidence.
  • NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Tom Smith, executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, about the current state of the nation's infrastructure. The group issued a report card in 2017.
  • Wearing designs from Nick Graham, Bill Nye the science guy and astronaut Buzz Aldrin took their right stuff to the catwalk. Nye wore a bow tie and gunmetal suit, Aldrin a metallic bomber jacket.
  • NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter James Grimaldi about the discovery that at least five governmental agencies receive fake comments challenging the agencies' rules. In its latest analysis, The Journal found that 40 percent of those surveyed said they did not write the comments attributed to them on the Labor Department's website.
  • A new documentary about writer George Plimpton uses its subject's own voice to tell the story of his career as a path-breaking "participatory journalist" and longtime editor of the Paris Review. The film also uses the voices of Plimpton's friends and colleagues to defend him against the charge of dilettantism that dogged him throughout his career. NPR's Joel Rose reports.
  • While Florida Republicans push measures allowing concealed weapons on college campuses and open carry throughout the state, a Democratic senator wants...
  • If you've ever dined out and wondered why you chose a cheeseburger over the salad, the choice may not have entirely been your own -- you might have been...
  • New research out of the University of Florida shows climate change is affecting all aspects of life on Earth, from entire ecosystems to the genetics of...
  • Federal documents show a University of Florida research unit killed more than 150 birds in the past 10 years to protect plant science work.
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