Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
In this short excerpt, Jane Goodall talks about her lifelong wish to get inside the mind of a chimpanzee. What's it like to think without words?
When independent radio producer Karen Michel moved from her apartment in Brooklyn out to the country – near the Hudson River - she wanted to know what her new neighbors really cared about. What, for them, it truly meant to live in a democracy where freedom is taken for granted.
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.
Alan Dale says laughing at slapstick is - at its heart - an expression of our sympathy with TV and film characters who get hurt. He says it's also relief that, for once, it's not us in pain.
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