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Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Earth Guide For Aliens
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- Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's Earth Guide For Aliens
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- 1:39
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- 17 years ago
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- A montage of sights and sounds etched into a record, then launched into space on the Voyager probe.
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- A Haitian Doctor Returns To His Homeland To Help
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- 2:52
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- 17 years ago
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- Doctor Henri Ford is chief of surgery at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. But when the earthquake happened, he quickly arranged to return to Haiti and provide medical care.
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- Why Does Time Fly By As You Get Older? | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 2:02
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- 17 years ago
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- Every New Year's, Christmas and birthday seems to come round faster every year. But why is it that we feel time goes by faster as we get older? In celebration of early memories, Maggie Starbard, with a bunch of friends (Caitlin Fitch, Mark Turner and Mike Eckelkamp) decided to dwell on a lazy beach where kids are collecting dense memories by the truckload.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122322542
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- David Gilkey - Photographing Haiti
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- 3:05
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- NPR's David Gilkey traveled to Haiti just after the earthquake left the capital in ruins. Back in D.C., he reflects on his experiences photographing amid the wreckage.
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- NPR Science: The Bare Truth About Running
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Researchers say that people who learned to run barefoot put less stress on their feet and legs than their shod peers. And it's more energy efficient, too. Barefoot is, after all, the natural way to run.
Credit: Jason Orfanon, Christopher Joyce
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123031997
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- NPR Science: Sperm Of A Feather Flock Together
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- In deer mice, multiple males will often mate with one female, sometimes within minutes of each other. To increase their chances of reaching the egg, each male's sperm will cluster together with their own kind, allowing them to swim faster than those that go it alone.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122783421
Credit: Jason Orfanon, Joe Palca
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- NPR Science: There's A Fly In My Urinal | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 0:33
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- As gentlemen may have noticed, flies are turning up in urinals with increased frequency. Not real ones, but lifelike images carefully positioned in the porcelain bowl. It seems the very presence of this insect drastically reduces what's politely called "spillage." But why flies?
Check out the rest of the story at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121310977
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- A Farmer's Tale And Other Health Care Stories
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- 3:17
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Rick Bartlett was floored when his son Trevor wanted to come home and work on the family orchard in Richmond, Mass. But the reality is, health insurance is forcing Trevor off his familys farm. An NPR/Robert Krulwich/Everynone Production
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- A Mother's Tale And Other Health Care Stories
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- 3:54
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Otis and Angela Prugal have managed for the most part to raise their young family without the security net of health insurance. But Angela had to skip a lot of medical care during her last pregnancy with a brutal outcome. An NPR/Robert Krulwich/Everynone Production
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- A Supervisor's Tale And Other Health Care Stories
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- One day, Stan Comoras tripped over his own feet, and was pretty sure his life would be over in minutes. He had fallen on a saw, cutting open an artery in his face. As blood gushed, a lot went through his mind. But guess what didnt. An NPR/Robert Krulwich/Everynone Production
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- A Locksmith's Tale And Other Health Care Stories
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Lou Padilla doesnt consider himself a locksmith. He considers himself a lock expert. Hes pretty good at fixing things, so when he broke his ankle a few years back, he decided to set it himself. His wife called him a knucklehead. But he didnt have health insurance, and he still doesnt. He explains why. An NPR/Robert Krulwich/Everynone Production
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- Afghanistan's "Lucky Dustoff" Medevac
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- In October, NPR photographer David Gilkey spent a few weeks with the Army Medevac team known as Lucky Dustoff." They are members of the Armys 82nd Airborne Division, currently deployed in the southern region of Afghanistan, in Zabul Province. David spent time with the unit, both at their base and on missions, chronicling their attempt to treat the wounded and the sick, especially among the Afghan civilians. It is their hope that the care they bring will help win the battle for the Afghan hearts and minds that is critical to the success of the overall mission.
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- Ants That Count! | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 4:36
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Desert ants have a nifty way of finding their way back home after a foray out of the nest to find food -- they count their steps. To prove it, some scientists devised a creative experiment that showed just how the little guys do it. NPR's Robert Krulwich and Odd Todd explain.
Credit: Robert Krulwich, OddTodd, Jason Orfanon
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- On The Road To Safety
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- In the past 40 years cars have gotten safer, and highway deaths have dropped as well. But as new technologies emerge, so do new risks. Are we on the road to greater safety? Or have we sped past the era of declining fatalities?
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- The WonderScope Challenge
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- NPR wants to see science through your eyes. Whether it's video, photography, animation or a finger-puppet show, we're challenging you to bring sciency stuff to life. We give you a topic, and you show us what you've got. Deadline for entries is December 17, 2009.
To get started, go to: http://www.npr.org/wonderscope
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- NPR Video Sessions: Alex Cuba
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Singer/songwriter Alex Cuba brings his smooth voice and intoxicating rhythms to NPR headquarters in Washington. He performs his song "Si Pero No" solo on acoustic guitar.
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- A Widow Paints A Health Care Protest
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- As Congress debates health care overhaul, Regina Holliday is using her paintbrush to take on the current medical system. Her 50-foot-long mural depicts the problems her family encountered while her husband was fighting stage IV kidney cancer.
See and hear the rest of the story at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120028213
Credit: Jason Orfanon, Joe Shapiro, Maggie Starbard
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- DeCarava's Photos Improvised The Music Of Life
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- In the 1950s, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models -- not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, who died Oct. 27 at the age of 89, turned all of that on its head.
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- Roger Deakins' Favorite Scenes : No Country for Old Men.
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Cinematographer Roger Deakins talks with NPR's Melissa Block about one of his favorite scenes from the movie "No Country for Old Men". See the full story on npr.org.
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- Roger Deakins' Favorite Scenes : The Shawshank Redemption
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- 3:29
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Cinematographer Roger Deakins talks with NPR's Melissa Block about one of his favorite scenes from the movie, "The Shawshank Redemption". See the full story on npr.org.
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- Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 3:39
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses.
See and hear the rest of the story on NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114075029
Credit: Robert Krulwich, David Bolinsky, Jason Orfanon
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- A Life Under Medicaid
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- When Gracie Scarrow, 94, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure she didn't have the money to pay for the care she needed. With her daughter Lela's help, Gracie turned to Medicaid. The program pays for her nursing home, and they couldn't be happier with the care.
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- Jousting in America
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Modern knights -- clad in armor, lances ready -- are working to keep an medieval sport from going extinct.
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- Underinsured In America
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Martha and Jim Martin work five part-time jobs, but still can't afford health insurance. Last year the Martins spent 45 percent of their $44,500 income on health insurance premiums and medical bills
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- (HD) The Amazon Road: Paving Paradise For Progress?
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- A transcontinental highway under construction in Peru and Brazil is bringing the prospects of economic opportunity and environmental ruin to some of the most remote places on the planet. NPR correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and staff photographer John Poole traveled the Peruvian route to produce this series.
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- The Amazon Road, Paving Paradise For Progress?
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- A look at the Interoceanic Highway; carving a path from Brazil's coastline, through Peru, to the Pacific. Are its economic benefits worth the environmental costs? NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and John Poole travel the road to find answers.
For more on this series, go to NPR.org.
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- Mongolia's Horse Race Evokes Genghis Khan
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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Described as the Kentucky Derby, the Olympics and Christmas rolled into one, Mongolia's Naadam is an 8-centuries-old celebration of heroism and masculinity. The annual festival is devoted to the three "manly sports" — horse racing, wrestling and archery.
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- Wrestlers Compete In Naadam
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Mongolia's Naadam is an 8-centuries-old celebration of heroism and masculinity. The annual festival is devoted to the three "manly sports" — horse racing, wrestling and archery. Find out more about Naadam and Mongolia on NPR.org.
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- Ninja Miners of Mongolia
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- A 21st-century gold rush is taking place in Mongolia.
Its huge gold reserves were only discovered after the former Soviet satellite started democratic reforms in 1990. Now, gold fever has gripped the country, with an estimated 100,000 Mongolians working as informal miners, many of them herders who have left their flocks behind.
Known as "ninja" miners — with their plastic gold-panning basins slung over their backs, they resemble TV's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — they do not possess the necessary mining licenses and thus operate illegally.
Find more stories from Mongolia at http://www.NPR.org.
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- NPR - The Way We Work - Derek Hopkins
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Derek Hopkins first heard the rhythmic chant of the auctioneer when his grandfather took him to a 4-H livestock sale in rural Maryland. Today, he's a freelance auctioneer -- what he calls a hired gun. View the full series on NPR.org - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112440700
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- NPR - The Way We Work - Lisa Uncles
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- 2:21
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- At the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C., Lisa Uncles provides care to a population with some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. She's proving that even the poorest of patients can do better. View the full series on NPR.org - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112440700
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- NPR - The Way We Work - Domonique Taylor
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Domonique Taylor works at Target on the overnight shift, unloading trucks and stocking shelves. After serving a seven-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, he's glad to be working. View the full series on NPR.org - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112440700
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- Welcome to the NPR News iPhone App!
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- 3:01
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Scott Simon introduces the new NPR News iPhone App!
Listen to your favorite NPR programs, get hourly news, and your favorite local shows anywhere, anytime.
Download it from the iTunes store here, http://iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews
To get more info, go to http://www.npr.org/mobile
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- NPR Listener Pizza Recipes Get Put to the Test in a New York City Taxi
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- NPR's Weekend Edition asked listeners for their pizza recipes. The staff scoured through them all and picked three promising recipe creations. The pizza chef at Keste Pizzeria -- recently ranked the #1 pizza spot in Manhattan by New York Magazine -- prepared the three finalists' recipes in his kitchen. The entire staff picked a winner. But NPR's David Greene decided to confirm the results through one final test.
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- The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd Gives A Drum Lesson to NPR's David Greene
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Steven Drozd (guitar and synthesizer master for the Flaming Lips) is teaching a few college seminar classes about how to be a rock star. NPR's David Greene wants to be a drummer. So he asked Steven Drozd for a quick lesson.
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- NPR: All interns Considered
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- The 2009 summer interns for NPR show off their personalities in short video clips.
http://www.npr.org/internedition/sum09
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- On Patrol with "America's Battalion"
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- 3:44
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment; on foot and under fire in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Members of Golf Company pushed deep into the heart of the Helmand River Valley in an attempt to secure this part of the country in advance of the Afghan elections in August.
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- NPR Science: The Crow Paradox | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Here's a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people ... especially those they don't like. They can pick a person out of crowd, follow them, and remember them for years. Here, NPR Science Correspondent Robert Krulwich and illustrator Neil Wagner look at how these brainy birds do it.
Hear the rest of the story, and play an interactive game that tests your ability to pick a crow out of a line-up at: http://www.npr.org/crows
Credit: Robert Krulwich, Neil Wagner, Jason Orfanon
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- NPR Science: How Much Heat Can You Take? | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Some 230 years ago, three curious London gentlemen walked into a room with a few eggs, a steak and a dog — with exactly that question. NPR's Robert Krulwich and animator Lev Yilmaz recreated the science experiment (and added a bit of modern science knowledge!) in this animation.
Check out the rest of the story at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106880000
Credit: Lev Yilmaz, Robert Krulwich, Jason Orfanon
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- The New NPR.org
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Scott Simon introduces the newly redesigned NPR.org.
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- Puzzle Love (with Liane Hansen, Susan Stamberg, Dan Schorr, Will Shortz, and Stacy Keach)
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- 3:44
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- This is NPR's Liane Hansen's 20th year as host of Weekend Edition Sunday. We marked the occasion by taping our puzzle segment in front of an audience. After the puzzle, the audience got to ask New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and actor Stacy Keach questions. That's when we realized we were participating in what might have been the largest ever accidental gathering of New York Times Crossword puzzle clues in one room.
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- The Puzzle: In Person (with Liane Hansen, Will Shortz, Stacy Keach, and Susan Stamberg)
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- 7:47
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- This is Liane Hansen's 20th year as the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. To celebrate the occasion, we taped this week's puzzle segment in front of a live audience.
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- NPR's Calling All Chefs: Grilled Dessert
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- 4:22
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- If you're looking for something new -- and sweet -- to throw on the grill tonight, you're in luck. We asked for your grilled dessert recipes, and Susan Lindeborg, a pastry chef, picked her favorite three. Now our panel of judges -- NPR food essayist Bonny Wolf, NPR correspondent Daniel Zwerdling, and Kate Jansen, owner/chef of Willow, a restaurant in the DC area.
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- Iran's National Poet Speaks Out On Recent Events In Her Country
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- 4:50
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Simin Behbahani, Iran's national poet, spoke with NPR's Davar Iran Ardalan from Tehran on Friday June 26th. She recites two poems inspired by the protests -- one dedicated to the people of Iran and the other dedicated to Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman mourned around the world because her death during last Saturday's protests was viewed by millions on the Web and TV.
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- 'Bruno,' The Annotated Trailer
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
- Description
- Who'll be offended this time around?
Monkey See has a few guesses.
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- Jazz Pianist Eric Lewis
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- 6:55
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Eric Lewis (aka Elew) performs his original tune "Thanksgiving" without a piano bench in NPR's Studio 4a.
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- NPR - Marines Preparing for battle in Southern Afghanistan
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- "America's Battalion", the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; train for combat in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
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- Dan Schorr Welcomes Liane Hansen to the Twitterverse
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- NPR's Liane Hansen is new to twitter. But Dan Schorr's not. So he took some time away from his Week in Review preparation to give a little advice.
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- On the Origin of Species: Spell Check
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- NPR's Liane Hansen gets to check out a first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species. But wait, how do you spell species?!
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- NPR's Garlic Contest: Carla Hall, Rock Harper, & Bonny Wolf
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- 3:10
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Weekend Edition asked listeners for their favorite garlic recipes. Garlic farmer Chester Aaron picked the top three. And our esteemed judges (NPR food essayist Bonny Wolf, Top Chef's Carla Hall, and Hell's Kitchen's Rock Harper) pick the winning dish.
