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  • "The way a child thinks is a good model for us sometimes," Panton says. Though I Believe In Little Things is her first album for kids, the jazz musician says she hardly changed her approach.
  • The new track, "Rest In Power," is from Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, an upcoming documentary series produced by Jay-Z.
  • Liane speaks with Katie Jones, who owns the Internet domain name Katie.com. Ever since Katie Tarbox's book with the same title was published earlier this year, Katie Jones has been receiving unwanted e-mail and other messages at her site. The book Katie.com tells a harrowing story of a teenaged girl's relationship with an on-line stalker.
  • When the author came out on Nigerian television, his parents were silent. But now he sees changes in their attitude — and in the anti-LGBT attitudes in his homeland as well.
  • Discovered at an Ikea in Burbank, Calif., he was a Hollywood actor by the time he was 5. But it was his performance as Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense that propelled a career that's lasted over 20 years.
  • Bird flu, or H5N1, has touched most of the globe, but there is one spot it hasn't reached. Researchers down under are preparing for it, but gaps in bird flu surveillance elsewhere makes it difficult.
  • Noah talks with Pat Sullivan, Executive Editor of TheStandard.com, about the site's databases tracking Internet companies that have gone belly up -- or are likely to. It's Flop Tracker lists dot.coms that have failed, and explains why; its layoff tracker explains why firms have been downsized; and its ex-exec tracker profiles CEO's and other e-businesspeople who find themselves out of work. Sullivan says even though about 30-thousand people have been laid off and dozens of companies have folded, the Internet industry as a whole is healthy. (4:30) See http://thestandard.com/ for more info.
  • The court on Monday declined to take up a key case dealing with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying the case has to wind its way through the appeals process first.
  • Researchers at The Education Trust went on a listening tour to better understand the struggles of black teachers. Among the themes they encountered: bias – from principals, colleagues and parents.
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