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• Facebook Culture

An NPR On Point program: The age of Facebook and where the online social network goes next. Broad swaths of young Americans now simply assume they can catch up with anyone, anytime on Facebook. Now older users are pouring in, too. And users around the world. But as Facebook grows and evolves, so do the questions about where it’s going, where it’s taking us.

• America’s Cultural Clustering

An NPR On Point: Bill Bishop on the dangers of a cookie-cutter America. Americans have increasingly moved into lockstep, like-minded communities where everybody’s politics are the same and conversations are more echo chamber than real exchange. Bill Bishop calls it “the big sort.”

• Evolving Culture: Where Do We Go From Here?

NPR series “The Human Edge”  It's about how humans got where we are today biologically, intellectually and culturally. In this segment, the focus is on how cultural and genetics are driving the change in human nature. 

• The Icing on the Cake

A two minute short animated story about Blanca Alvarez and her husband who risked crossing the border to immigrate to the United States, and then struggled to make ends meet. They hoped to shelter their children from these harsh realities, but Blanca's daughter Connie reveals how much children can really see of their parents' lives — and the inspiration they draw from their parents' struggles.

• Immigration: On the Border

Issues on immigration from both sides of the fence: the treacherous conditions migrants face while trying to cross into the United States; danger for the children of immigrants who are left behind; and the vigilante Americans who patrol the border.