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Factitious, a game meant to test your media savvy, was originally meant for students in middle school and high school. Then one of the developers’ colleagues commented, "Hey, my crazy uncle needs to play this too!" In the end, the target audience is everybody. [NPR] Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Home prices have rebounded from the recession — in a few cities Adjusted for inflation, most of the country’s housing markets are still heating back up to 2008 levels – and in many cases are still below 2000 levels. The exceptions? The priciest cities, such as San Francisco, and the trending locales, including Nashville and Pittsburgh. But nationwide, despite higher population, Americans are buying the same number of homes they were 18 years ago. [Not all of the reasons for that are bad, though.]( Chelsea Beck/NPR Online stories can be tricky, but you know a fraud when you see one. Right? Crafted by a veteran journalist and a game designer, Factitious borrows Tinder’s interface to test your ability to weed out satire and screeds from actual news headlines. "We're not going to solve the fact that there are two different realities being told right now," the designer says. "But if there are people in the middle ... open to asking questions, I want to empower them." [Try it for yourself.]( Nathalie Dieterle for NPR Teach your kids self-control, the Cameroonian way A classic psychological experiment on young children is called “the marshmallow test”: Leave a child alone with a treat, telling them they’ll get two if they wait 10 minutes for you to come back. In Western countries, more than half of kids gobble up the sweet. But parents in Cameroon seem to expect more from their kids: Nearly 70 percent of the 3- to 5-year-olds waited the full 10 minutes. A tenth even fell asleep. [Learn the approach of parents there.]( U.S. National Archives, courtesy Les Kinney An old photo of a salvaged plane rekindles a mystery: Was Amelia Earhart rescued? A History Channel special enlists researchers and facial recognition experts to examine a newfound picture of what appears to be two Caucasians with a group of Japanese men on Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where some believe the pioneering aviator and her navigator crash-landed in 1937. [But if they were saved, what happened to them?]( NPR YouTube When USSR shortages left grocery shelves bare, her mom could still make this treat NPR is on a hunt for the recipes from around the world that people find the most meaningful. For our technology reporter Alina Selyukh, a special cookie can take her on a Proustian trip back to her childhood in southeast Russia. In this video she teaches you how to make oreshki, simple cookies filled with a rich mix of chopped nuts and dulce de leche-style thickened condensed milk. [The simple ingredients were reliably available in the Soviet era.]( You received this message because you're subscribed to our Best of NPR emails. | [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Policy]( | NPR 1111 N. CAPITOL ST. NE WASHINGTON DC 20002 [NPR]