Thursday: Iraq - Isis, jog route GPS drawings, short radio songs, and more...

The Mosul Dam is the largest in Iraq -- and now, there are claims from the militant group ISIS has seized control of it...Using a GPS app, a San Francisco woman turns her running routes into large-scale drawings -- including some hilariously crude renderings of penises...and a Calgary radio station crams twice as much music into an hour, by simply shortening the songs...

Part One

Iraq: ISIS
Today, the situation in Iraq has deteriorated drastically: the Sunni militant group ISIS claims to have seized control of the largest dam in the country, and tens of thousands have fled for their lives.

Chilly Gonzales
The Canadian pianist Chilly Gonzales casts a pretty long shadow in the world of music -- and now, he's re-casting Hans Christian Andersen's "The Shadow" as a chamber suite.

Jog route GPS drawings
Claire Wyckoff has invented the art of "run drawing". She uses an app on her phone to trace her route as she jogs -- and creates picture of dogs, Space Invaders and...penises.

Part Two

Norway reindeer
Norwegian road authorities are coping with some squatters who are messing with traffic by blocking a tunnel. And they can't be negotiated with, because they're reindeer.

Shortened radio songs
A Calgary Top 40 station has instituted a new policy of playing twenty-four songs an hour, instead of the usual twelve. And they're doing it in a way that might infuriate purists: they're just shortening up the songs.