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Mara Brock Akil and her husband, Salim, are a Hollywood power couple. Mara's behind several of BET's hit shows, and Salim's a movie producer and director.

Watch This: The Akils On Black Film And TV You Can't Miss

The husband and wife team of Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil have created some of the most iconic African-American characters on television. This is their list of must-see shows and movies.

Search Engines Records and How They Can Be Used

Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, discusses what kind of information search engines keep about users' searches.

Neil Gaiman is the author of <em>The Graveyard Book, </em><em><em>Coraline</em></em><em>,</em><em> Amer<em>ican Gods</em>, <em>Anansi Boys</em>,<em> Stardust</em> </em>and<em> <em>M Is for Magic</em>. </em>He was born in Hampshire, England, and now lives near Minneapolis.

Watch This: Neil Gaiman's Imaginative Favorites

From The Muppet Show to The Twilight Zone and a creepy animated version of Alice in Wonderland, author Neil Gaiman shares his film and television favorites for the occasional Morning Edition series Watch This. Gaiman calls the Muppets "one of the comedic glories of the human race."

Ramsey Archibald (left) and his father, John Archibald.

Meet the father-son journalists from Alabama who won a Pulitzer and changed laws

Their series exposed how the police force in the town of Brookside preyed on residents to boost its revenue.

Oscars By The Numbers

This year, statisticians are hoping to predict who will win big at the Oscars by using the same methods they used to predict the 2012 presidential election. Host Jacki Lyden gets the latest number-crunching Oscar predictions from Conor Gaughan from Farsite.com. We'll also hear from David Rothschild from Microsoft Research and Joel Windels of Brandwatch.

Pre-Teens Win James Beard Web Award

Michele Norris talks with Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, Chicago sisters who won a James Beard Foundation Award for their Web site, spatulatta.com. At ages 10 and 8, the sisters are the youngest people to win the prestigious award. Their site is geared toward teaching kids how to cook.

Technology Pushes Politics into New Frontiers

Joe Trippi talks about how new technologies are being used in political campaigns, from YouTube to Google to MySpace.com. He tells Renee Montagne that the landscape has changed markedly in the last five years. Trippi was Howard Dean's presidential campaign manager.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been The Discourses Guy of The Week.

Leo DiCaprio's dating history is part of our obsession with staying young forever

Among age-gap discourse and the increasing fixation on preventing wrinkles, we will still find ourselves getting older no matter what we do.

<em>La La Land</em> producer Jordan Horowitz holds up the winner card reading actual Best Picture winner <em>Moonlight</em> with actor Warren Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel onstage during the Academy Awards in 2017.

5 most unexpected moments in Oscars' history

One year the telecast was actually too short. Another time an actor climbed over rows of chairs between him and his Academy Award. Björk laid eggs on the red carpet. Oscar can go weirdly off script.

The key change has been used by musicians like Beyoncé, Travis Scott, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Michael Jackson for decades. Nowadays, it's getting harder and harder to find in top songs.

Where did all the key changes go?

Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have a key change, but it's getting harder and harder to find in top hits.

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