So much of our daily lives gets turned into data -- our online shopping purchases, phone calls, family photos. We're all surrounded by data, and learning how to harness it could be more transformative than we realize. This week, a look at the new data specialists using their knowledge of numbers to change everything, from music to baseball to health. Can Tracking Your Period Change Women's Health?; Runs, Hits, and Algorithms: How Data is Changing Baseball; By Transforming Data into Music, New York's Income Inequality Gets Amplified; A Novelist Assesses the Beauty of Computer Code; The Box of a Trillion Souls: Stephen Wolfram on the Distant Future; Their Lovely Bones: The Decorated Skeletons of Europe.

74 is the new 24 Giorgio Moroder—The 75-year-old Father of Disco—is Back; Buffy Sainte-Marie on Her New Album, "Power in the Blood"; The Benefits of Playing Music in Your Vintage Years; Old Masters and Young Geniuses; Philip Glass on his Memoir "Words Without Music".

How to depolarize American politics How to Depolarize American Politics; The Biology of Political Bias; Elif Shafak on the Pain of Living in a Polarized Culture; Bookmark: Jonathan Chait recommends “What Hath God Wrought” by Daniel Walker Howe; The Future of Left and Right.

The atom bomb's ability to kill people makes it a literal dangerous idea.  But there are other kinds of dangerous ideas -- ideas that are contrary, counterintutive and just plain unconventional.  It's that kind of dangerous idea that we explore in this hour. Anatomy of a Dangerous Idea; Listener Dangerous Idea on Black Education; The Harm of Coming Into Existence; Dangerous Idea: Your Child is Not a Special Snowflake; Listener Dangerous Idea on Mythmaking; Chuck Palahniuk Talks Dangerous Writing; Listener Dangerous Idea on Teaching.

The Mosque Mosque Architecture in America; Building a Mosque In America; The Burj Khalifa, the Tallest Building in the World; An Architect Under Siege in Syria; From the Islamic Center of Chicago; The Architect's Apprentice.

If you think about it, every day we receive countless services from complete strangers — the newspaper delivered to your door, the trash picked up at the crack of dawn, the fresh fruit for sale at the supermarket. There's a whole army of invisible workers powering our economy who we rarely get to hear about. From the warehouse workers who fill out our online orders, to the migrant laborers who pick our food, even down to the unpaid office intern, this hour we're talking about the hidden workers who make it all happen. True Stories Of A Warehouse Worker; A Day In The Life Of A Migrant Worker; Questioning The Ethics Of Unpaid Internships; The Hidden Jobs That Fill Your Day; Dangerous Idea: Embrace Laziness; Christie Watson on her novel 'Where Women Are Kings'.

Are you tired of the old way of fiction? Are Japanese cell phone novels just not doing it for you any more? Fear not. Today, we meet writers who are blowing up the novel by inventing new forms of fiction. Blurring The Lines Between Fiction And Reality; Karl Ove Knausgaard on Remembering and Recreating Memories; BookMark: "Mes Amis"; A Novel in 27 Volumes; Long-Lost Country Music Album Finally Released After 40 Years.

As Cuba and the U.S. restore diplomatic relations, what's in store for Americans who want to visit Cuba? And for Cubans wanting more prosperity? Steve Paulson recently traveled to Cuba and brought back new stories about our island neighbor. From diplomacy to culture, we tackle jazz, baseball and politics—and offer an in-depth look at the lives of contemporary Cubans. Life as a Cuban Tour Guide; Why the Opening Between Cuba and the U.S.?; Rainforest Remedies; American Expat Finds His Home in Cuban Jazz; Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba; Baseball Diplomacy.

Single women are a rising political force in America. Is this the revolution our feminist grandmothers fought for? All the Single Ladies: Rebecca Traister on the Rise of Independent Women; Susan B. Anthony Invites Frederick Douglass To Tea ; Planned Parenthood Founder Gets Novel Treatment; The Real Louisa May Alcott; Dangerous Idea: Men Are Also Victims of Sexual Discrimination; The Rediscovery of Nina Simone.