Today I'm going to talk about work. And the question I want to ask and answer is this: Why do we work? Why do we drag ourselves out of bed every morning instead of living our lives just filled with bouncing from one TED-like adventure to another? You...
Hello GW. Thank you very much President Knapp for that kind intro. Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of the university, my fellow honorees, and especially you the class of 2015. Yes. Congratulations to you, to your family, to your friends that are at...
Robyn Williams: If you read about ancient Greece it's uplifting to recognise how free and egalitarian they were, and how this enlightenment was the basis for the rise of culture for drama, philosophy, the growth of natural science and an understandin...
Now, I want to start with a question: When was the last time you were called childish? For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other s...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Dr. Katherine McKenzie has examined the wounds of many people. But she doesn't treat them. For the past decade, she has conducted forensic evaluations as director of the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine. It's her job to verify cla...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Seventy years ago, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. Japan surrendered, and World War II ended six days later. As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports, the people of Nagasaki retained searing memories and view the pr...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now that the U.S. and Cuba have reopened embassies in each other's countries, what other changes might follow? Havana's streets are already bustling with more tourists than usual. NPR's Carrie Kahn talked with some American touri...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Sonya Lea and her husband Richard Bandy had a 23-year-old marriage filled with ups, downs and memories. In 2000, he developed a rare form of appendix cancer and had an operation in 2003 which was successful, sort of. The patient li...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Fifty-two. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Four-hundred-and-fifty-three. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Twenty-five. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time for some number crunching from our data expert, Mona Chalabi of fivet...
Where are you from? said the pale, tattooed man. Where are you from? It's September 21, 2001, 10 days after the worst attack on America since World War II. Everyone wonders about the next plane. People are looking for scapegoats. The president, the n...
WADE GOODWYN, HOST: The U.S. largest professional organization of psychologists enabled abusive interrogation techniques after 9/11 according to an independent review released Friday. The American Psychological Association acknowledged that its repre...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's been a year since a Malaysian jetliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Western governments believe that flight MH17 was hit by a Russian surface-to-air missile, but there is still no offici...
LYNN NEARY, HOST: The Mexican drug wars have left many victims, especially those shattered by violence. Some have found a small measure of refuge outside Juarez, Mexico. A shelter there is the last stop for a group of indigent and mentally ill people...
As a matter of fact, I was trying to think about my career since I left the White House, and the best example I have is a cartoon in The New Yorker a couple of years ago. This little boy is looking up at his father, and he says, Daddy, when I grow up...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Fifty-two. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: Four-hundred-and-fifty-three. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Twenty-five. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time for some number crunching from our data expert Mona Chalabi from five...
