'OSLO' Tells The Surprising Story Behind A Historic Handshake SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's a scene from history. Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister, Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization chairman, shaking hands on the White House lawn, Septe...
David Huddleston, The Real Big Lebowski, Dies At 85 SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Big Lebowski is gone - not the guy who was mistaken for him in the 1998 Coen brothers film. Of course, that's Jeff Bridges. David Huddleston died at the age of 85, played the...
New Novel Takes 'The Underground Railroad' Beyond The Metaphor SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Colson Whitehead has brought a metaphor to life - the Underground Railroad. His novel of the same name is both magical and real with dreamlike passages delivered with s...
Wisdom From Young Adult Authors: Tamora Pierce SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Throughout August, we'll bring you stories and some advice from authors who've written for young people about the crucial moment when they've left home and set out in the world on thei...
'Little Prince' Adaptations Aren't Easy Just Ask Orson Welles KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Pity the person who tries to adapt The Little Prince. The classic story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is about a pilot who meets a child from another planet. The book ha...
An Israeli-Palestinian Battle With Roots In Lingerie SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is shifting to a financial front as Americans and Europeans raise questions about products made in Israeli-occupied areas. Europe has product lab...
At This English Bar, An Old-School Solution To Rude Cellphones SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There was a time when people went to bars to talk to other people, maybe even make new friends. Then, cellphones became commonplace, and people sit and drink in silence...
Zika Cases Surge In Puerto Rico As Mosquitoes Flourish AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Puerto Rico is reporting more than a thousand new confirmed cases of Zika each week, and things are expected to get worse before they get better. NPR's Jason Beaubien is in P...
Khizr Khan Says He Would Live This Week A 'Hundred Million Times' Over KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Khizr Khan can't go anywhere without being noticed. People hold doors for him, cry when they see him, even jump out of cars to hug him. He became known around...
Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Is there a time in the future when the voice of a barista might ring out, latte with cockroach milk? Pour a cup of coffee while we tell you about the female Pacific beetle cockroach. She doe...
In The Race For The Song Of The Summer, 'Panda' Runs On A New Track AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Every summer has a song, one that you listen to on the beach, at barbecues or in your car with the windows rolled down. And that song is everywhere. But it's get...
Melting Ice In Greenland Could Expose Serious Pollutants From Buried Army Base KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Buried below the ice sheet that covers most of Greenland, there is an abandoned U.S. Army Base. Camp Century had trucks and tunnels - even a nuclear r...
Florida Company Gets One Bureaucratic Step Closer To Landing On The Moon DAVID GREENE, HOST: There was one small step for man - and now something not nearly as dramatic, but still important, one small step for robots. A Florida company that wants to...
Mystery Guest JULIAN VELARD: This is ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia. I'm Julian Velard here with puzzle guru Art Chung. Now here's your host Ophira Eisenberg. (APPLAUSE) OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Thank you, Julian. Now, be...
Gillian Jacobs And Kate Micucci: Your Brain Is Not Enough JULIAN VELARD: This is NPR's ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm Julian Velard here with puzzle guru Art Chung. Now, here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg. (APPLAUSE) OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Thank you, Julian. E...
