The Run

How much can you trust whether somebody who you think is close to you really is close to you? Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.’s been thinking about that question since a recent visit with some of his childhood friends in Sierra Leone. (37 minutes)

Writer Marie Phillips believes that magic is not just reserved for the beginning of a relationship.

Zarna Garg had a clear plan for how she was going to find a husband.

David Kestenbaum desperately wants to set the record straight for everybody about whether aliens regularly visit earth.

Senior Editor David Kestenbaum talks with a different kind of advocacy group: animal scientists doing their best to save a particular species before it winks out of existence. (16 minutes)

Senior editor David Kestenbaum helps his kids set up an ant farm.