Kate is really good at the drums.

Trying to understand gravitational waves.

I walk around dressed up like the Black Swan...

What do you want more than anything else in the world?

Searching for a cat interpreter.

The Stoop showcases the extraordinary true stories of “ordinary" people, told in front of live audiences as large as 1,400. Stoop stories are weird, wonderful, hilarious, and heartbreaking — and, above all, intimate. Founders Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin host the podcast.

This week we tell you how to choose the best name ever for your baby and investigate an old outhouse mystery. I have a quick question for you and/or any other woman who would like to answer this. Alex Young, who called you about baby names, said that she wasn't taking her husband's last name when she and Patrick got married.

One is accused of being hawkish, the other isolationist. One hopes to become the darling of the conservative Christian right, the other is looking to appeal to a broader base, from establishment conservatives to students at Howard University and UC-Berkeley. In spite of themselves, though, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) are kind of the same.

Top Republican officials in at least five states have begun investigations into Planned Parenthood and its state affiliates after a video released by an anti-abortion rights group spurred outrage earlier this week. The video, released by the Center for Medical Progress, showed a Planned Parenthood official discussing the practice of harvesting and donating tissue and organs from aborted fetuses.

A significant majority of Americans support proposed regulations on carbon emissions by power plants, even as Republican leaders in Washington and around the country prepare lawsuits to challenge President Obama’s most significant climate change initiative. Sixty-three percent of registered voters say they support the regulation, known as the Clean Power Plan, a new Morning Consult poll finds.

The energy economy can be very good for business: Across the country, states with the lowest unemployment rates can credit their success to a booming energy production and sales. But what the energy economy giveth, it can easily take away: States with the highest unemployment rates are also more likely to be major energy producers, and with oil prices near recent lows, those states are finding out the hard way that a lack of diversification can put an economy at risk.

Utility companies want to use unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, to keep the lights on. According to Morning Consult polling, that’s fine with the average American – so long as utilities say why. Several major utility providers, including San Diego Gas & Electric, ComEd and Southern Co, are testing drones – also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – for eventual usage in power line inspections and repairs, preventing outages and more.

Police in Western Europe have rounded up suspected terrorists this week. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Raffaello Pantucci of the Royal United Services Institute about how countries track extremists. Police in France, Belgium and Germany have swept up more than two dozen suspected terrorists in the last couple of days as investigators search Western Europe for possible militants.

Eddie Huang is a is a renaissance man with a string of careers: lawyer, TV host, restaurateur and author. His raw, funny and sometimes extremely profane memoir, Fresh Off the Boat, came out two years ago. It's a brutally honest story about his life as an Asian-American kid, reconciling two cultures.

Tiny Boonville, in Northern California, is known for a few things: its wineries, its tight-knit community — and its very own language, Boontling. Bahl means good. Nonch means bad. And horn of zeese? That's Boontling for a cup of coffee. The language was created long ago as a way to gossip covertly in this community of about 1,000 people, nestled in a valley a few hours north of San Francisco.