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  • Groupon co-founder Andrew Mason has been fired as the daily-deal company's CEO, one day after Groupon posted financial results that showed it lost $67.4 million during 2012. Board chairmen Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis will jointly fill the CEO post on an interim basis.
  • Inside the famously fevered head of the Radiohead lead singer, the ghosts and phantoms are still working overtime. Hear a review of his new project.
  • The Obama administration filed a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. But the brief does not call for abolition of bans on same-sex marriage across the country. Nina Totenberg talks to Audie Cornish.
  • Who's on first? Ophira Eisenberg! In this homage to Jeopardy!, Ask Me Another's host tests your knowledge of pop culture's most vexing questions, and their answers. Thinking "I don't know"? Third base! Plus, Jonathan Coulton plays a song in the form of a question: a cover of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" by The Clash.
  • If a punchline lands at the the Philosopher's Comedy Club, and there is no audience there to hear it, is it still funny? In this game, puzzle guru John Chaneski puts on his best Borscht Belt impression and imagines the kinds of jokes famous thinkers would tell if they had become comedians instead.
  • The subject of Johannes Vermeer's painting could be the Girl With a Pearl Earring's slightly older aunt. She's less innocent, more serious and currently on display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, her first-ever appearance on the West Coast.
  • After 10 years out of the public eye, the new album from Bowie, The Next Day, proves he's still a compelling pop star in today's music world.
  • J.C. Penney's new CEO came in with a bold strategy: No more sales or coupons. It didn't work.
  • Earlier in the week in our "On the Run" series, we heard a mom explain how mac and cheese was more affordable than fresh fruit. Morning Edition reached out to Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a nutritionist and economist, to explain why that would be true.
  • The new Berlin International Airport was scheduled to open for business in October 2011, but they missed that deadline. Trouble with safety equipment caused delays. But one system is working: All the airport lights are on. Work crews, however, can't seem to turn the lights off.
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