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SHOTS - HEALTH BLOG Singing Therapy Helps Stroke Patients Speak Again "Singing therapy" is one treatment researchers are using to help brain trauma patients gain the ability to speak again.

	FOOD Jewish And Mexican Cooking Meet In 'Challa-peño' Alex Schmidt's grandparents say that the best Jewish food they've ever eaten came from Mexico. They remember a legendary husband-and-wife catering team who made downtown Mexico City feel like the shtetlsof Eastern Europe. Schmidt visits her grandmother to find out more about fusing two culinary traditions.	Support comes from: Become an NPR sponsor

	RESEARCH NEWS The Wisdom Of Trees (Leonardo Da Vinci Knew It) Some 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci noted that branches on trees split with mathematical precision. Recently, physicists studying this phenomenon have discovered it has important implications for the way wind flows around and through trees.

	THE TWO-WAY Siku Is So Cute! Little Polar Bear Is New Video Star Go ahead. Try not to feel all warm and fuzzy after you watch a video or two of the month-old polar bear who is quickly becoming an Internet hit. He's at a zoo in Denmark.

	ASIA The Real Buddha Bar, Tended By Tokyo Monks It's an old cliche — the boozy customer at the pub, pouring out his woes to the bartender. But at a Tokyo bar run by Buddhist monks, bartenders don't mind hearing their customers' problems — dispensing advice is precisely why they're in business.

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