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Medical historian Ira Rutkow points to physical evidence that suggests Stone Age people conducted — and survived — brain surgery. His new book is Empire of the Scalpel.

David J. Linden's new book on touch brings into focus all the things we still don't understand about the neural basis of this sense, says commentator Alva Noë.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is making a very late entry into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. The move underscores uncertainty many leaders feel about the current candidates.

Ron Rash's latest collects 34 of his best short stories; critic Alan Cheuse says they're searingly beautiful, "as if someone has taken a stick from a blazing fire and pressed it into your hand."

As part of an initiative for reproductive health care access, advocacy groups handed out emergency contraception pills and condoms to fans at the Olivia Rodrigo concert in St. Louis.

The State House and Senate are working to come to an agreement on the budget for the 2025 fiscal year and get it sent to Governor Gretchen Whitmer before a self-imposed July 1st deadline. Some of the environmental measures proposed by Governor Whitmer have been left out and finding for others is at a premium. 33rd District State Representative Felicia Brabec has been actively involved in the process. WEMU's David Fair checked in with the Pittsfield Township Democrat for the latest.

Twenty years have passed since the U.S. invaded Iraq. Four people who witnessed it firsthand share their impressions.

Ken Grossman was experimenting with beer before he was old enough to buy it. As a high school student in the late 1960s, he bought his first home brewing kit and mixed the ingredients in a bucket, hiding his early batches from his mother. About ten years later, before most Americans knew what craft beer was, Ken decided to build a brewery in Chico, California. With $50,000, a few piles of scrap metal and some hand-me-down dairy tanks, Ken and his partner built Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and crafted a beer with a distinctive, hoppy bitterness. Today, as the third largest craft brewer in the U.S., Sierra Nevada Brewing Company – like so many other businesses – faces unprecedented challenges due to the Coronavirus crisis.

On May 25, 1955, a powerful F5 tornado with winds estimated at 300 mph roared through Udall, Kan., destroying all but a handful of buildings and leaving 80 people dead and 270 injured. The twister helped change America's response to one of nature's most powerful forces.

The Cinetopia Film Festival hits Ann Arbor later this month, and the director of one of the movies stopped by the WEMU studio. Andrew Templeton is the director of "1969: Killers, Freaks and Radicals." That movie has a focus on the Michigan murders of John Norman Collins right here in Washtenaw County, He spoke about the film with WEMU's David Fair. Plus, David talked about the latest films and special screenings with Marquee Arts cinema programming director, Nick Alderink.