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Don't look now, but National Public Radio is having a bit of a "diversity" crisis -- as in racial diversity. NPR has never had a diversity of viewpoints.

"If NPR doesn't see this as a crisis, I don't know what it'll take," tweeted Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish's "All Things Considered" co-host.

Many skin conditions, from rashes to Lyme disease to various cancers, present differently on dark skin. Yet medical literature and textbooks dont often include those images, pointing to a bigger problem in dermatology. Today on the show, we take a close look at how the science of skincare has evolved to better serve patients of color, but still has a long way to go.

Happy Pride, Short Wave Listeners! Heres a fun episode from our archives to celebrate the month!Its another "Back To School" episode where we take a concept you were maybe taught in school as a kid, but didnt really learn or just forgot. Short Wave producer Thomas Lu and host Maddie Sofia go on a journey to explore what a rainbow exactly is and how we see them! We all remember ROY G BIV, right?Email us your Back-To-School ideas at shortwave@npr.org.

Image by Jamie Johannsen from Pixabay This time on the show its another edition of Ask Sam, where Sam answers listener questions about the natural world. This time, questions about hugging trees, bumpy roads, objects stuck on power lines, and epic hummingbird battles. Plus, from our semi-regular series 10X10, we head under the ice of a frozen lake. In this piece, we give the down low on bizarre properties of water, fish that thrive in a capped-off environment, and long beards of algae clingin...

Embed iframe src "https://www.npr.org/player/embed/968710172/968827605" width "100%" height "290" frameborder "0" scrolling "no" title "NPR embedded audio player" Facial recognition researcher Joy Buolamwini stands for a portrait behind a mask she had to use so that software could detect her face. Buolamwinis research has uncovered racial and gender bias in facial analysis tools sold by companies such as Amazon that have a hard time recognizing certain faces, especially darker...

Science Photo Libra/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Science Photo Libra/Getty Images Electrical circuit with lemons. A chemical reaction between the copper and zinc plates and the citric acid produces a small current, that is able to power a light bulb. Science Photo Libra/Getty Images Were going "Back To School" today, revisiting a classic at-home experiment that turns lemons into batteries — powerful enough to turn on a clock or a small light...

Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images A macaques monkey looking into the mirror of a motorbike in the grounds of a temple in Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought ...