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Republican Congressman Mike Lawler discusses foreign aid package

Friday, April 19, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Congressman Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., about the foreign aid package that the House is finally considering after massive efforts from Speaker Mike Johnson.

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What's the key to creating great art? This author spoke to 40 artists to find out

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing.

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An unusual museum heist: A man smuggled a painting into the building

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne museum announced that it had fired an employee from its technical services team. The man snuck in after hours and hung his own painting.

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How Indonesia's revolution paved the way for decolonization worldwide

Tuesday, April 09, 2024

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Van Reybrouck about Revolusi, his new book about how Indonesia gained independence and paved the way for the global decolonization movement.

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Drummer for many jazz greats, Albert 'Tootie' Heath has died at age 88

Friday, April 05, 2024

Albert "Tootie" Heath has died at age 88. He played drums with basically all the greats of the 1950s, '60s and beyond and is on the first albums that Nina Simone and John Coltrane made as bandleaders.

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Investigative journalists track suspected cartel boss using his google reviews

Thursday, April 04, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with open source researcher Connor Plunkett, about his report with Bellingcat titled "Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews."

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This artist weaves the natural sounds from a 1,300-mile hike into music

Monday, April 01, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the multi-instrumentalist James Bishop about how he transforms recordings of natural objects into music.

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"Music is a need for me" why this violinist composed an album under ISIS

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with musician and composer Ameen Mokdad, about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq.

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Glassdoor's new privacy policy stirs fear that anonymous posts may not stay anonymous

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Hoover, about her latest piece in WIRED magazine, "Glassdoor Wants To Know Your Real Name."

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How Nvidia dominated the AI chip market

Monday, March 18, 2024

The chip designer Nvidia is now worth more than Amazon, Meta and Alphabet. New Yorker contributor Stephen Witt talks about how Nvidia cornered the market for the chips fueling artificial intelligence.

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Nearly all of Uranus' 27 moons have Shakespearean names. What'll this one be called?

Friday, March 08, 2024

Scientists have found a 28th moon around Uranus. In keeping with tradition, they plan to name it after a Shakespearean character. Scholar Michael Dobson weighs in on the suggested name, "Violenta."

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The fickle, golden magic of the Yosemite "Fire Fall"

Thursday, February 29, 2024

For a few weeks each year, Horsetail Fall at Yosemite national park glows gold just before sunset. They call it the "Fire Fall." But it only happens if conditions are perfect.

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Greta Lee of 'Past Lives' talks about how language and identity are intertwined

Friday, February 23, 2024

Greta Lee stars in the new movie Past Lives. She talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the film and the ways language and identity are intertwined.

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What happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town?

Friday, February 16, 2024

Coal jobs have been declining for generations. Now in the town of Keyser, West Virginia, there's a different energy source on the horizon.

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A first-hand account from the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and Chad

Thursday, February 08, 2024

We hear rare eyewitness testimony from Darfur, one of the worlds unseen and often forgotten conflicts — which has resulted in the largest child displacement crisis in the world.

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Retired Military General Officer reacts to U.S. air strikes in the Middle East

Friday, February 02, 2024

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with retired Military General Officer Michael Nagata, as the U.S. military begins retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria.

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Meet the 'chicken from hell' 2.0: a newly discovered dinosaur

Thursday, February 01, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kyle Atkins-Weltman, a PhD student of paleoecology at Oklahoma State University, about a newly discovered dinosaur dubbed the "chicken from hell".

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Everyday users are complaining that the internet is more chaotic than ever

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

For many, the internet has become less fun and less informative. Those who study the web say there are underlying reasons for this, and the problems are expected to worsen with the rise of AI.

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The fight across the nation for the 'right to repair'

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Only one state, Colorado, has passed legislation that allows farmers to repair farm machinery themselves. Michigan hopes to soon be another in the battle for the right to repair their own equipment.

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Why flight attendants have a lot of time in their day that is unpaid

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Flight attendants aren't paid their hourly wage for most of their time on the ground. In ongoing union contract negotiations, they're seeking a change.

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