SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When Donald Trump landed in Scotland just hours after the United Kingdom's historic vote, he was quick to draw parallels between that country's decision to leave the European Union and his own presidential campaign. (SOUNDBITE OF A...
Hello everyone. Thank you for being here. Im so honored and humbled to have this opportunity. Truthfully when I was asked to speak here I was so nervous, and then I thought, the theme of today is Start Now, so perhaps looking back at my journey I can...
I think I was supposed to talk about my new book, which is called Blink, and it's about snap judgments and first impressions. And it comes out in January, and I hope you all buy it in triplicate. But I was thinking about this, and I realized that alt...
So...uh...I'm an Iranian-American Muslim female, like all of you. And I'm also a social justice comedian, something that I insist is an actual job. To explain what that is, let me tell you how I got here. I've performed all over the country. And let...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Millions of Americans recharge their phones and screens and laptops before they go to bed at night, but do they recharge themselves? Arianna Huffington says we're in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis that creates anxiety as w...
Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old woman who managed a bar, was stabbed to death on March 13, 1964, outside of her apartment building in Queens. That terrible crime, shocking in itself, became notorious when the vaunted New York Times reported that 38 peo...
If you've ever marveled to hear about somebody who's life is so full of adversity that you feel yours is easy, listen up. NPR's Julie McCarthy examines the improbable path of an Indian child bride who literally wrestled her way into a new life. It is...
A big debate rages in Britain. Should they stay in the European Union or leave? Yesterday in London, President Obama took a side. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BARACK OBAMA: Speaking honestly, the outcome of that decision is a matter of deep inte...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The holy month of Ramadan is about to begin. That's the period of fasting, introspection and prayer observed by Muslims around the world, including here in the U.S. We wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on what it's like to...
So I know TED is about a lot of things that are big, but I want to talk to you about something very small. So small, it's a single word. The word is misfit. It's one of my favorite words, because it's so literal. I mean, it's a person who sort of mis...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We're going to talk now to the king of sting. I borrowed that sobriquet from the back cover of Justin Schmidt's new book. The book is called The Sting Of The Wild. Schmidt is an entomologist, a student of bugs, especially Hyme...
And this is For The Record. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DONALD TRUMP: We're going to stop it, and we're going to build a wall. We're going to also... (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) TRUMP: We can't have this, folks. We don't have a country anymore. You...
An unlikely class of college graduates will walk the stage this coming week. They've gone through an accelerated computer science program that launched three years ago. It had a goal of training the children at California's agricultural Salinas Valle...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: I think most people hate to think of themselves as middle-class. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Have what you need, but maybe not everything you want. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: We have a car, but we live in an apartment. That's middle class...
Robyn Williams: I wear sandals to work. So Does Jonathan Green. We do so for two reasons. First, to make at least one thing Gerard Henderson writes just one to be true. Hes always calling us at the A.B.C. Sandalistas an odd, rather ugly term implyin...
