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There's a free concert taking place at a forest in Germany, and the headline acts have come from far, far away. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks to New York-based artist Jeff Talman about his German sound installation, Nature of the Night Sky. Working with astrophysicist Daniel Huber, he used radiation and seismic data from stars and shaped it into music, played back after sundown each night in a Bavarian forest.

From physics meccas like Lawrence Livermore Lab to rock formations like Mammoth Cave and the Grand Canyon, there are plenty of ways to fit science into a summer getaway. National Geographic Traveler Editor-in-Chief Keith Bellows offers travel tips for a scientific summer vacation.

This week: Crime novelist George Pelecanos cases easy-to-break-into houses in Washington, D.C., with an accomplice: NPR reporter Elizabeth Blair.

"The truth of poetry is not the truth of history," according to the new poet laureate of the United States. Philip Levine's work is most famous for an urban perspective that began with a youth spent working in Detroit's automobile factories.

The Newsweek editor looks at how women helped bring about peace in Liberia; how they're changing the state of marriage throughout Asia; and the rise of Christine Lagarde to the top of that notoriously male-dominated institution, the International Monetary Fund.

A poetic Russian road movie. about two friends who undertake a journey to bid farewell to one of the men's wife, surfaces the traditions of the Finno-Ugric Merja tribe, a group that's (almost) assimilated into Russian culture. (Recommended)

The singer's 1968 hit "Different Strokes" became a popular hip-hop sample used by artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy and Kanye West.

Artist Richard Thompson's "Cul de Sac" is a daily watercolor comic strip in 140 newspapers. It centers on a young girl's experiences with her friends on a cul-de-sac. The Washington Post's Michael Cavna has written a profile on Thompson's career and struggles with Parkinson's disease. Host Michel Martin speaks with Cavna and Thompson about this latest article in the Washington Post Magazine.

In a Disney Store in Southern California, displays include playful child-size mannequins that encourage shoppers to interact with the merchandise.

Author J.K. Rowling, Of Harry Potter fame, has launched a new website. There's not much there except illustrations of two owls and a link to a clock — counting down to six days from now, when the author plans to announce her mysterious new project. Rowling's publicists are only saying it is not a new book.