This is Weekend Edition from NPR News. I am Scott Simon. Imagine yourself in the future for a moment riding in a driverless car. You see 10 pedestrians stroll into the street just a few yards ahead of you. The car's going too fast to brake and miss t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been almost 25 years since a film called Not Without My Daughter captured the world's attention and thrust a Michigan mother and her child into the international spotlight. The movie starred Sally Field and was based on a me...
MARTIN: And this is For the Record. It's a holiday weekend. A lot of us are spending it with family. When everyone gets together, it can be a good chance to have a conversation you have been putting off, like talking with your aging relatives about w...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And a new study from a group called Common Sense Media reports that teenagers now spend up to nine hours a day on various screen devices. That's probably more than they sleep. We're joined by Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common S...
Hi there. I'm Hasan. I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, Do you paint? or What kind of medium do you work in? Well most of my work that I work with is really a little bit about methodologies of w...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Every time a violent attack is carried out in the name of Islam, as happened in Paris, Muslims in this country feel pressure to speak out, to say again how the extremists have nothing to do with it their faith. We wanted to try t...
This is For the Record. (SOUNDBITES FROM MOVIES) WILLIAM SHATNER: Space. TOM HANKS: Houston, we have a problem. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Astronaut is awestruck. SANDRA BULLOCK: What do I do? SHATNER: The final frontier. MATT DAMON: I'm going to have to sc...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: All this month, we've been hearing about the lives of teenage girls from around the world. Some of them say they dream of coming to the United States, where they believe their lives would be better. Our next story is about a girl w...
I and my colleagues Art Aron and Lucy Brown and others, have put 37 people who are madly in love into a functional MRI brain scanner. 17 who were happily in love, 15 who had just been dumped, and we're just starting our third experiment: studying peo...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: After over 50 years of trade embargoes against Cuba, the country has been starved of a lot of things. But when it comes to TV and movies, Cubans have been watching pretty much the same stuff as the rest of us. Nick Miroff is The...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This Is For The Record. We're going to talk about gun violence. And we could start this story as we usually do - with a lot of tape reminding you of all the recent school shootings, including one just Thursday night at Tennessee...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Women of color have long been ignored by major cosmetic firms, which meant there wasn't a whole lot of choice if you weren't white. That has changed. Karen Grigsby Bates from NPR's Code Switch team takes a look at why companies n...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's a spot on the grasses of the Serengeti in which the steps of small three-toed ancestors of horses seem to fall into the same path as the footprints of early hominids. Were they walking together, hunting together, or did two...
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: Gerry is a 40-year-old bricklayer who lives in a suburb of Chicago. He doesn't want his last name used because he snuck into the country 21 years ago across the Canadian border with a fake driver's license and stayed. Now he's m...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're joined now from Dallas by Michael Fitzgerald Wilson and his son, Mark. Michael Wilson was just released from the U.S. penitentiary in Victorville, Calif., where he served a life without parole sentence since 1994 for a first-...
