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The Media Lab at MIT has turned a PDA into the Jerk-O-Meter. The device analyzes voice patterns and other verbal cues, then offers callers advice on how they're holding up their end of the conversation.

Google's expansion into instant messaging and a web-based calling opens another field of competition with Microsoft and Yahoo. Robert Siegel talks with Scott Cleland, CEO of Precursor, an independent investment research firm tracking technology and telecom sectors.

Fomenting and glorifying terrorism are among the "unacceptable behaviors" that could lead to deportation according to new rules unveiled by Britain's Home Office. Robert Siegel talks with John Prideaux of The Economist magazine.

His role as David Fisher, the gay brother who co-runs a funeral home on Six Feet Under, is Michael C. Hall's first television part. On Broadway, his roles have included Billy Flynn, an oily attorney in the revival of Chicago, and the emcee in Cabaret. (This interview originally aired March 26, 2002.)

Some 26,000 people who fled from the Darfur region of Sudan are living in the Breidjing refugee camp in Eastern Chad. They are among 200,000 Sudanese who have fled across the border. Aid agencies predict that the camps will be needed until at least the end of next year.

Robert Walker, a retired congressman from Pennsylvania who served as chairman of the Science Committee, responds to allegations that the Bush administration has mishandled scientific issues. Walker now serves as chairman of Wexler & Walker, a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.

Actress Lauren Ambrose plays daughter Claire Fisher on the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. Also a classically trained opera singer, Ambrose appeared on stage last year in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child at London's National Theatre. (This interview originally aired July 6, 2005.)

Sunday marks the last episode of the HBO show Six Feet Under. In five seasons, the series introduced viewers to the Fisher clan and their funeral business. The show's creator, Alan Ball, speaks with Susan Stamberg.

In his new book The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney contends that the Bush administration has distorted research and misinformed the public on issues ranging from stem-cell research to global warming. The motivation, Mooney argues, is political power.

Guy Goodson, mayor of Beaumont, Texas, discusses the mandatory evacuation order there and other preparations. Naomi Rodriguez, a clerk in a liquor store on the outskirts of downtown Houston, says she and others are going to stick it out through Hurricane Rita.