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From member station WBUR, Jason Beaubien reports on a new engineering college in Boston where students will learn how to design all sorts of things -- including their own school.

The largest retrospective ever assembled of Alexander Calder's large-scale sculptures is now at the Storm King Art Center in New York state. Calder is best-known for his mobiles. Even some of his massive outdoor sculptures move.

NPR's Alex Van Oss reports on a new exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. The star of the show is Rapunzel, the fairy tale heroine, as depicted by women illustrators past and present.

To Pauline Kael, the legendary film critic who died Monday, a good movie "makes me feel great. I think good movies do that for people." Her books and writing for The New Yorker and other magazines carried great importance in the motion picture world.

In 1999, NPR listeners started sending in their stories to author Paul Auster for broadcast on NPR. The tales are now in a book. Join host Lisa Simeone on Weekend All Things Considered to hear excerpts from I Thought My Father Was God.

The ostrich-like dinosaurs who thundered across the screen in Jurassic Park may not have been fierce creatures after all. Researchers show that these beaked dinosaurs used their mouthparts as sieves, not daggers - and probably ate plants and small water creatures rather than hunting meat.

Doug Anderson reads his poem Crows, recorded earlier this week at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, in Farmington, Connecticut.

A new and improved lighting system is being installed at the Jefferson Memorial. The new system will use less energy than the current system and will enhance the appearance of the building and interior.

NPR's Ivan Watson report on the music of Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour. N'Dour has been performing for over three decades, and the social commentaries in his songs continue to strike a chord with people of all age. (5:44

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on efforts to preserve the country's dwindling number of Civil War battlefields. Sites like Kennesaw Mountain -- the last obstacle between General Sherman and Atlanta -- are in danger from suburban sprawl.