Christopher Intagliata

Senior Producer, Science Friday

Christopher Intagliata appears in the following:

Scary movies had another big year. A horror scholar shares her favorites

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with horror scholar and filmmaker Rebekah McKendry about her favorite horror movies of the year and the ideas that tie them together.

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At 14 years old, America's Top Young Scientist dreams of curing skin cancer

Friday, October 27, 2023

Heman Bekele, winner of 3M's Young Scientist Challenge, wants to make cancer treatment cheaper and more accessible.

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The Queen of Outlaw Country Music Jessi Colter talks faith and finding love again

Friday, October 27, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with country artist Jessi Colter on her latest record, "Edge of Forever."

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Gaza medical staff say they're missing critical resources to help hospitalized people

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Muhammad Hawajreh, a nurse and medical coordinator for Doctors without Borders in Gaza City, which may soon run out of fuel to power its generators.

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Singer-songwriter Maddie Zahm on her new album, growing up religious and coming out

Friday, October 20, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with singer-songwriter Maddie Zahm about her new album, Now That I've Been Here, and her whirlwind couple of years since going viral for the song "Fat Funny Friend."

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A breakdown of the chaos going on in the House

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Norman Ornstein, a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, about what's is happening in the House.

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Curtis Chin recounts coming of age as a Chinese American gay kid in his new memoir

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

NPR'S Ailsa Chang talks to author Curtis Chin about his new memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.

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Israel ordered Gazans to evacuate. They have nowhere to go

Friday, October 13, 2023

The Israeli military told 1 million to move to southern Gaza as a possible ground invasion looms. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with ICRC spokesperson Imene Trabelsi about the reality of Gazans.

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Evan Gershkovich awaits trial in Russia, but his family finds hope in his letters

Thursday, October 12, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Danielle Gershkovich, sister of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained by Russian security services more than six months ago.

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Without power or a place to go, civilians in Gaza shelter in fear of airstrikes

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Juliette Touma, director of communications for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, about the situation in Gaza.

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Can U.S. teams really be world champs without playing the sports world?

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal sports and humor columnist, about "world champion" status in American sports culture and why the U.S. devalues sports it's not good at.

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'Utterly joyful': John Oliver tells NPR about returning after 5 months off the air

Friday, October 06, 2023

Late night TV host John Oliver spoke to All Things Considered about the last few months off air, the tentative agreement for writers, and what he hopes for his writers in the future.

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How the war in Ukraine impacted David McCloskey's Russia spy thriller

Thursday, October 05, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with David McCloskey, whose new spy versus spy novel Moscow X is about a CIA officer scheming to recruit a Russian intelligence officer — and vice versa.

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Surrounded by synths, Alan Palomo is teasing out a new kind of sound

Monday, October 02, 2023

For much of his career, Alan Palomo has coaxed sounds from synthesizers and been at the forefront of the chillwave genre. With his fourth album — and his solo debut — he's changing it up.

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Chief WGA negotiator weighs in on tentative union deal

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Chief Negotiator for the Writer's Guild of America, Ellen Stutzman, about the tentative deal struck between the union and the major production studios.

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The U.S.-Iran prisoner swap 'was the right deal to make,' deputy special envoy says

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Abram Paley, deputy special envoy for Iran, on the prisoner swap that allowed five Americans who'd been detained in Iran for years, to return to the U.S.

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Musician Alan Palomo on 'World of Hassle' and his love for synth

Friday, September 15, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with the musician Alan Palomo, formerly of the chillwave group Neon Indian, about his first solo release, World of Hassle.

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'Policymakers need to do their job too': Pediatrician's view on child poverty rate

Thursday, September 14, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with pediatrician Megan Sandel about the on-the-ground impacts of child poverty.

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The secrets of snail mucus, according to a biochemist

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to slime scientist Antonio Cerullo at the City University of New York about the benefits of mucus.

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Scientists stumped by shiny golden egg discovered in deep sea

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Using a remote operated vehicle, NOAA scientists on the Okeanos Explorer encountered a shiny golden orb deep in the Gulf of Alaska.

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