This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, my guest Brad Stone chronicles how Amazon became a, quote, innovative, disruptive and often polarizing technology powerhouse, the company that...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Acid reflux, acne, anxiety, asthma, certain cancers, depression, type 2 diabetes, flat feet, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, lower back pain and osteoporosis - that's just a partial list of non-infec...
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. And I'm Melissa Block. This week, we're exploring the many ways you share personal information with the digital universe, whether you know it or not. When you search online, when you shop,...
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. And I'm Audie Cornish. To some Americans, revelations about the National Security Agency and how it monitors phone calls, emails and the Internet might not seem relevant to their lives....
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The number of people around the world who leave their countries to work in another country is soaring. The total is now well over 200 million, up from 150 million a decade ago, according to United Nations. This week, the U.N. ho...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: More and more news organizations are finding and sourcing content through social media. Whether it's evidence of chemical attacks in Syria, the Boston bombing, or the fake-out video of an eagle snatching a baby, the problem for o...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A newly opened computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by about 60,000 applicants. The school is called 42. It was founded by a telecom magnate who says the French education system is failing young people. And his aim is to r...
From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about experiments at a major university in the United States. Northwestern University researchers are studying how music affects the human brain. Jim Tedder...
I think it's safe to say that all humans will be intimate with death at least once in their lives. But what if that intimacy began long before you faced your own transition from life into death? What would life be like if the dead literally lived alo...
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. A new study looks at privacy in a world where computers can increasingly recognize faces in a crowd or online. Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl...
So my name is Amy Webb, and a few years ago I found myself at the end of yet another fantastic relationship that came burning down in a spectacular fashion. And I thought, you know, what's wrong with me? I don't understand why this keeps happening. S...
Like many of you, I'm one of the lucky people. I was born to a family where education was pervasive. I'm a third-generation PhD, a daughter of two academics. In my childhood, I played around in my father's university lab. So it was taken for granted...
This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about skin cancer. Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer. It is also the most deadly. America's National Cancer Institut...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: You know, we live in a culture that prizes self-confidence. We are encouraged to believe in ourselves and act like we belong, even when we don't have the slightest idea what's going on. Probably nobody else knows what they're doi...
WADE GOODWYN, HOST: About an hour south of Silicon Valley is a place known as the Salad Bowl of the World. In the largely Hispanic Salinas Valley, young adults are more likely to imagine a future in agriculture than high tech. but now a new program i...
