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From Only Child To Older Sister To Adoptee, Under China's One-Child Policy

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Ricki Mudd was born in China and her family, wanting a son, hid her away while they tried to have a boy. After her brother was born she was taken by authorities. But she feels lucky, not rejected.

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Hot Sugar Makes Music Out Of Anything And Everything

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Pick a sound, any sound: A dog's bark, the crackle of pop rocks in someone's mouth, a stone skipping over water. Nick Koenig is a musician who says he can make music out of just about anything.

Under the name Hot Sugar, Koenig records sounds in the world around him, ...

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In 'Great Scott,' Joyce DiDonato Leads An Opera Within An Opera

Saturday, October 31, 2015

You don't often hear "football" and "bel canto" in the same sentence. How about the same opera?

The new production Great Scott, which premiered Friday at the Dallas Opera, pulls that off with a meta-story of sorts: It's an opera about a struggling opera company, whose future just ...

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An Election's High Stakes: Sandra Bullock On 'Our Brand Is Crisis'

Saturday, October 31, 2015

The presidential race is close; the gloves come off and the campaigns go negative.

Sound familiar?

That's the premise of the new film Our Brand Is Crisis — which is set in Bolivia, not the contemporary U.S. — and the competing advisers for the two campaigns in the movie include ...

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Rod Stewart Picks Up The Pen

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Even at 70, Rod Stewart has a singing voice unlike any other. Already one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, in the past 15 years he's become well known as an interpreter of songs from the past, in particular the American Songbook. But recently, he's grown ...

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Dramatist David Hare Says, Like Many Writers, He's Driven By Doubt

Saturday, October 31, 2015

In the mid-1960s a young David Hare was touring the U.S. in a somewhat unlikely way: He'd gotten a job cleaning and repainting a beach house for a therapist in Los Angeles, and she had arranged for him to stay with a succession of her patients as he traveled around ...

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The Music Of 'The Martian,' Deconstructed

Friday, October 30, 2015

In an conversation from the Song Exploder podcast, score composer Harry Gregson-Williams explains how he matched moments to melodies in the new film, which stars Matt Damon as a stranded astronaut.

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'A Perfect Soldier': Remembering A Warrior In The Battle Against Homophobia

Friday, October 30, 2015

When Leonard Matlovich showed up on Time with the headline "I Am a Homosexual," it shocked many. The decorated Vietnam veteran spent the end of his life advocating against anti-gay discrimination.

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Editor's Note: Ethics Violations Identified In Several NPR Music And WQXR Reports

Thursday, October 29, 2015

NPR Music editors have determined that phrases in 10 stories filed jointly on the NPR Music and WQXR websites were copied from other sources without attribution. They were written for NPR and WQXR by Brian Wise, the online editor at WQXR, a classical radio station owned by New York Public ...

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OK Google: Where Do You Store Recordings Of My Commands?

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Here's something to keep in mind when using the "OK Google" voice command feature on Android phones: Google keeps an audio archive of your requests.

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After 40 Years, Dungeons & Dragons Still Brings Players To The Table

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Michael Witwer, who has written a book about game co-creator Gary Gygax, says D&D does something that online games don't: It brings players physically together to participate in group storytelling.

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'Hemingway In Love' Chronicles Papa's Romantic Regrets

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

A.E. Hotchner wrote a memoir of his friend Ernest Hemingway in 1966, though he left out several stories to protect those still living. Now, at 95, he's publishing them.

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Lauren Groff Used 'Fates And Furies' To Bring 'Feminine Rage' Into Light

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Drawing from experiences living in the South and wanting to counter older portrayals, the author of Morning Edition's latest book club pick sought to craft "a strong woman who doesn't self-destruct."

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Things That Go Bump In The Lab: Halloween And The Science Of Fear

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

This week, for Halloween, the Hidden Brain podcast gets spooky.

Producer Maggie Penman visits a haunted house in Pittsburgh called The ScareHouse, curated in part by sociologist Margee Kerr.

Kerr teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of a new book called Scream: Chilling Adventures ...

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Processed And Red Meat Could Cause Cancer? Your Questions Answered

Monday, October 26, 2015

An expert panel's conclusion that hot dogs and yes, even turkey bacon are carcinogenic had many of you wanting more details. Which cancers? How much is safe to eat? We tackle your questions.

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Remembering A Lifelong Radio Man And His 'Big Broadcast'

Monday, October 26, 2015

Ed Walker died Monday after signing off his long-running show, The Big Broadcast, for the last time. The show, heard out of NPR member station WAMU, reprised programs from the golden age of radio.

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'Natural World': In Which We Make An Expotition To The Hundred Acre Wood

Monday, October 26, 2015

The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh is a new book about Ashdown Forest, the place that inspired A.A. Milne to create his classic children's tales. NPR's Ari Shapiro visits with author Kathryn Aalto.

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A Witch's Brew Of Fear And Fantasy: America's Tiny Reign Of Terror

Monday, October 26, 2015

Pulitizer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff's last book was a best-seller about Cleopatra. Now, the Massachusetts native is out with a history of a subject closer to home: the 1692 Salem witch trials.

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Who Decides Which Emojis Get The Thumbs Up?

Sunday, October 25, 2015

"The Unicode Consortium" may sound like the dark cabal of villains in a James Bond movie. And though they aren't plotting world domination in a volcano lair, they do hold a lot of power — over your text messages.

The Unicode Consortium's job has always been to make basic symbols ...

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This Weekend, Hoist A Pint With The 'Young Skins'

Sunday, October 25, 2015

In Colin Barrett's collection of short stories Young Skins, the plots teem with characters your parents probably warned you away from. Some are violent, some are addicts and others are just lost — adrift in a gritty world in which they see no chance of escape.

But it's not all ...

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