Museum of Natural History

Journalist Danny Fenster spent 176 days as a political prisoner in Myanmar. We talked to him about what happened and the fight to get him home to Michigan. And, we took a trip to Wasem Fruit Farm as apple season kicks into high gear. Plus—mastadons! We talk to a University of Michigan paleontologist about what we're still learning about these magnificent beasts.

The University of Michigan now owns what is considered to be the only lifelike reconstruction of an extinct human relative that roamed southern Africa 2…