Mallory Yu

Mallory Yu appears in the following:

Why one AI expert was pleased Biden addressed AI during his State of the Union

Friday, March 08, 2024

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Fei Fei Li, the co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute at Stanford University, about President Biden's State of the Union remarks about harnessing the power of AI.

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The iconic Mr. Darcy shirt was auctioned off today

Tuesday, March 05, 2024

An auction in London Tuesday focused on costumes from period dramas, including one very special item: The very shirt Colin Firth wore in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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Why some Taiwanese Americans are moving back to Taiwan

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The 1970s-1990s saw a mass wave of Taiwanese immigrants to the U.S. Now, many of their children are moving to Taiwan for a safer future despite the west's perceptions of impending war with China.

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A Taipei comedy club becomes an unlikely venue for working out Taiwan-China tensions

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Taiwanese comedian Vickie Wang and Chinese comedian Jamie Wang (no relation) work through the lived experience of cross-strait tensions through comedy.

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Taiwan's long history of colonization has forged its distinct cuisine

Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Taiwan has endured a long history of colonization. As a trip to the culinary center of Tainan reveals, those outside forces have helped create a cuisine that is distinctly Taiwanese.

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Maddie Zahm talks about her album and the whirlwind of going viral

Thursday, January 04, 2024

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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How one reporter tells the story of Philippines President Duterte's drug war

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Patricia Evangelista's new book, Some People Need Killing, chronicles her reporting during Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

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Can we grow veggies in space?

Thursday, November 16, 2023

A Texas undergrad is investigating sustainable agriculture systems for growing vegetables on Mars - and grew test samples of English peas in simulated Martian soil, with fertilizer from maggots.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the economic relationship of the U.S. and China

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about her meeting with China's Vice Premier, and the state of U.S.-China relations ahead of President Biden's meeting with Xi Jinping.

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Digging into the Israeli-Hamas war's implications for the broader region

Friday, November 03, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy, about the leader of Hezbollah's speech on Friday.

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Jeff Yang's new book is a 'cheer out loud' for the films that made Asian America

Friday, November 03, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with authors Jeff Chang and Preeti Chhibber about The Golden Screen: The Movies that Made Asian America. The book looks at films that have shaped Asian American identities.

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A stunning — but fleeting — lake has formed in California's Death Valley

Thursday, November 02, 2023

When the driest place in North America and one of the hottest places on Earth becomes a desert oasis complete with a lake, it's impossible not to take note.

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'Friends' co-creators tell NPR they will remember Matthew Perry for his heart

Thursday, November 02, 2023

The Friends co-creators spoke with NPR to remember their late colleague and friend, Matthew Perry, best known for his role as Chandler Bing.

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'I was tired of God being dead': How one woman was drawn to witchcraft

Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Witches have long cast a spell on our imaginations, but real people practice witchcraft too. One woman dedicated a year to find out what it means to be a practicing witch.

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What does it mean to be a witch? A writer spent a year doing witchcraft to find out

Thursday, October 26, 2023

In her new book, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft, Diana Helmuth explores witchcraft as a religion and confronts her own skepticism.

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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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Taylor Swift enters her football era and breaks the internet

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

In a rare example of Taylor Swift's love life making headlines, fans are swooning over the superstar's potential new beau, footballer Travis Kelce.

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Usher will soon have Super Bowl halftime validation. But can he top Rihanna?

Monday, September 25, 2023

In the immortalized-by-meme words of Usher: Watch this.

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U.S. special representative for Ukraine talks economic recovery

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Penny Pritzker, who has been tapped by President Biden to serve as his special representative for Ukraine's economic recovery.

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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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