It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But this hour, we try to do just that. Find out where you can hear Words on-air this week.

David Rothenberg hears symphonies where most of us hear squeaks and squawks. In our new podcast The Septendecennial Sing-Along, he describes tuning his ears to hear, and play along with, the music of animals and insects. Here's a free download from his CD Bug Music.

If you live in IA, IL, MO, LA, or MS and want to help us track the 2014 periodical cicada emergences there, fill out this form to request a soil temperature kit. While supplies last... we have a limited number.

Getting fed up with all the cicada talk this spring? Grab a bingo card and keep track of any hyperbolic descriptions, clichés, and fear-mongering you run across. Then blow off a little steam by screaming bingo louder than a swarm of sex-crazed buzzing insects!

If you can't beat 'em... eat 'em? Some tips and recipes for enjoying cicadas during the 17-year Brood II invasion along the East Coast.

In our show Musical Language, Diana Deutsch warps our brains with an insanely catchy little snippet of speech that, when looped, morphs into a song: "sometimes behaves so strangely." And she's got more audio illusions where that came from.

Ever wonder why humans cry? A professor of behavioral neurology answers some questions, and helps give us a better understanding of how a feeling in our guts can come out as water in our eyes.

Researchers used 5,000 individual atoms to create the world's smallest film...and in the process figure out how to store a helluva lot of data!