I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 years, I've done the...
(Arabic) I seek refuge in Allah from cursed Satan. In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. I was born in a middle class family. My father was five years old when he lost his father, but by the time I was born, he was already a bus...
In the past two decades, thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea. Yeonmi Park is one of them. Her father had been imprisoned, and her family didn't have enough money to survive, so she and her mother escaped across a frozen river, finally...
I was just thinking that I have been missing you way too long There's something inside this weary head that wants us to love just instead But I was just thinking, merely thinking I've got loads of pictures, I've got the one of you in that dancing dre...
Hello, it's All in the Mind on RN, Lynne Malcolm with you. Today, as part of the ABC's Mental As campaign, we begin with a few laughs. Stand-up comedian: With all the great street drugs out there, I would have to be an idiot to choose antidepressants...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Hundreds of thousands of people have undertaken dangerous trips across the Mediterranean to flee war and suffering. And last summer, one of these boats just disappeared. Two-hundred-and-forty-three souls were aboard - men, women an...
Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question What do you want to be when you grow up? Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question? You can just hold up fingers. Three. Five. Three. Five. F...
Amanda Smith: In this edition of The Body Sphere the subject is ugliness. Robert Hoge: I think too often adults try and suggest that differences in appearance don't matter by pretending they don't exist, and kids know that's a lie. And when someone c...
I published this article in the New York Times Modern Love column in January of this year. To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This. And the article is about a psychological study designed to create romantic love in the laboratory, and my own experience...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Among the thousands of asylum-seekers pouring into Germany every week are scores of children who are alone. Most of these unaccompanied minors are teenagers sent by their parents to escape poverty and violence. NPR's Soraya Sarhadd...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A lot of books come across our desks here at WEEKEND EDITION. One caught our eye recently because of the unusual way it came to be published. The title sums up the story. It's called Underground In Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraor...
o that's Johnny Depp, of course. And that's Johnny Depp's shoulder. And that's Johnny Depp's famous shoulder tattoo. Some of you might know that, in 1990, Depp got engaged to Winona Ryder, and he had tattooed on his right shoulder Winona forever. And...
A record number of migrants poured across the Hungarian border overnight. They're making a push to cross before Hungary finishes building a 13-foot high fence along its border with Serbia. Pope Francis has called on Europe's Catholics to support and...
Excerpt from The Truman Show: Good morning! (Good morning!) Oh, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight. Hahaha, yup. Lynne Malcolm: Hi, it's All in the Mind on RN, I'm Lynne Malcolm. Today we look at the impact that p...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Brazil is believed to have one of the largest archives of photographs of slavery in the world. Slavery ended so late in Brazil in 1888 and coincided with the beginning of photography. Many of the pictures are unknown outside of Bra...
