LYNN NEARY, HOST: Now, the story of an incredible journey that begins in the late 1980s when the first Palestinian uprising began. (SOUNDBITE OF EXPLOSION) NEARY: The images from the intifada include exploding tear gas canisters launched by Israelis...
This summer I was back in Ohio for a family wedding, and when I was there, there was a meet and greet with Anna and Elsa from Frozen. Not the Anna and Elsa from Frozen, as this was not a Disney-sanctioned event. These two entrepreneurs had a business...
ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST: Many people around the world are mourning the death of Sir Nicholas Winton this week at the age of 106. Winton is credited with saving the lives of 669 children, most of them Jews, by organizing their escape from what was then...
Robyn Williams: And this is The Science Show on RN where weve long tracked the evolution of dogs. Now clearly going far further back than we thought, so we can imagine now a bunch of feral people, all very roughroaming around the woods, coming across...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: For most of her life, Cole Cohen had a hard time with all kinds of things. She'd get lost all of the time. She couldn't do math to save her life. The whole concept of time was hard for her to grasp. Her parents took her to doctor...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, on this Father's Day, we bring you a story about a father and his daughter and a whole continent between them. Longtime NPR contributor Jon Kalish lives in New York City. For years, he struggled to maintain a relationship wi...
Back in New York, I am the head of development for a non-profit called Robin Hood. When I'm not fighting poverty, I'm fighting fires as the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company. Now in our town, where the volunteers supplement a highly skill...
MACER GIFFORD: I was sitting at my desk in London, in an ordinary job, working in the city, and every day I'd flick on my computer screen and see the most horrendous crimes being committed in the Middle East. And it stirred me into action. I first wa...
ARUN RATH, HOST: What does it take to be a double agent, to convince a foreign government that you're working for them when you're actually spying on them? Years of special study and training, right? NAVEED JAMALI: I had none. It consisted of probabl...
Good morning. Oh, what a day. What a lovely day. Its a pleasure to be addressing the Wake Forest graduating Class of 2015. I want to start by thanking the administration and the Trustees for inviting me to speak. I want to thank them for giving me an...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Twenty years ago, when teen pregnancy was double what it is today, a close friend of mine got pregnant when we were in high school. It's a story I haven't been able to shake. And every time I see a news headline about teen pregna...
Robyn Williams: And so to a mummies aspect that did not get celebrated at all last weekend, and there are plenty of them. This is Wendy Zukerman: Wendy Zukerman: For 7,000 years we humans have mummified our dead. Yes, the ancient cultures of Chile, E...
Someone who looks like me walks past you in the street. Do you think they're a mother, a refugee or a victim of oppression? Or do you think they're a cardiologist, a barrister or maybe your local politician? Do you look me up and down, wondering how...
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, Yale! (Applause.) Great to see you all. (Applause.) Thank you very, very much. Jeremy and Kiki, the entire Class of 2015, congratulations and thank you for inviting me to be part of this special day. Youre talented. Youve w...
(From an Omni Processor promotional video:) Bill Gates: Over 2.5 billion people have no access to safe sanitation. We asked brilliant engineers to help us solve this problem, and one of those engineers actually has proposed a solution where the waste...
