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Jeff Smith’s popular comic book series, “Bone,” has sold over 4 million copies and is part of a new exhibition at the Wexner Center For the Arts at Ohio State University. He answered viewer questions in an Insider Forum; Listen to Smith discuss the world of comics and the inspiration behind his series on NewsHour. [...]

Andy Warhol would have been 80 today; he was born on August 6, 1928. This episode of “USA Arts”, from 1966, an NET production, profiles pop art pioneer Warhol (and Roy Lichtenstein, in part I). His interviews are mesmerizingly detached and hilarious, and the footage is stunning. Watch now.

Just days before the Olympic games begin, a haze still stretches across Beijing. Despite China’s considerable efforts, the smog has been overwhelming. China’s smog-forming ozone reaches all the way to California — and it will soon be the world’s largest source of global warming pollution. Read more….

Amid the near-daily drumbeat of gloomy economic news, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman has answered questions on the issues topping the headlines, including why banks fail, the job market for new grads, the high price of oil and more. Ask Paul a question here.

A Civil War enthusiast owns an antique photograph that depicts about 20 older white men in full dress uniform, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with two black men. History Detectives investigates the first national social group to challenge the color barrier.

August 5th at 10pm, P.O.V. will air the little-seen documentary “Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music” on Thirteen. This footage, of Johnny and June singing “Jackson”, is from the documentary; watch here.

A new survey conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society has found hundreds of thousands of western lowland gorillas inhabiting the vast forests and swamps of the Congo Republic.

Phoenix Mars Lander: NASA’s latest bot

Brain Trauma: prevention and treatment

Mammoth Skeletons found locked together

Profile: Judah Folkman, cancer researcher

Aug. 4, 1944: the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Anne Frank, after 2 years of hiding with her family in an Amsterdam warehouse. In the small space she wrote her diary, arguably the most famous account of the Holocaust. Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp two months before it was liberated. Read more about Nazis [...]