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All across the country, people are re-creating, reinterpreting, acting out history in some way. These living historians remember the past — and they don't mind repeating it.

Serge Brussolo's hallucinatory 1992 novel The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome follows a group of lucid dreamers whose slumbers produce a strange ectoplasm that can soothe and even heal people who see it.

A group of hunter-gatherers died 10,000 years ago in modern-day Kenya. Archaeologists say the remains suggest warfare — often seen as a trait of settled societies, not nomadic ones.

Restaurant critic Pete Wells tries to keep the customer in mind with all of his reviews. "We show awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers," he says.

A British inquiry found that the Russian president "probably" approved the poisoning of an ex-intelligence agent. But Britain imposed only light penalties against two Russian suspects.

The presidential candidate says a jalapeño a day helps keep her healthy on the campaign trail. She could be on to something: A large recent study linked a spicy-food habit to longevity.

Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage spent two years visiting Reading, Pa., to research her new play. Sweat explores how industrial decline affected workers in the former steel and textile town.

The Sundance Film Festival gets underway Thursday night in Park City, Utah. NPR explores the themes of the festival and which films are getting big buzz.

Florida's Dozier School for Boys is a horror tale come to life. Nearly 100 boys died at the school, many unidentified, in unmarked graves. Scientists are trying to discover who they were.

A man convicted of the 1992 rape and beating death of a woman has been put to death in Alabama's first execution in more than two years. Authorities say…