美国国家公共电台 NPR Is Zika Dangerous For Kids? It Probably Depends On The Age

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Zika virus may have fallen from the daily headlines. But the threat remains when you're traveling to some places. NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff has the latest information about keeping your family safe from Zika. MICHAELEEN DOUCL

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet Your Lucky Stars: NASA Announces A New Class Of Astronaut Candidates

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This is Lulu's log, star date June 11, 2017, where we consider matters of space, the stars, the universe. Just as class is getting out for the summer across the country, a new one has just been announced - NASA's latest cla

美国国家公共电台 NPR Words You'll Hear: Dodd-Frank

LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: We're going to head back to the U.S. now for Words You'll Hear. That's where we try to understand stories in the news by parsing words connected to it. Today, the words are Dodd-Frank. That's the 2010 law that gave Wall Street ne

美国国家公共电台 NPR At 'Washington Post,' Tech Is Increasingly Boosting Financial Performance

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The mainstay of The Washington Post has been journalism, breaking news and award-winning stories. But since Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought it three years ago the paper's approach to business and technology has also attracted attent

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Few Genetic Tweaks To Chinese Bird Flu Virus Could Fuel A Human Pandemic

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Public health officials are increasingly worried about a strain of bird flu virus that's circulating in China. In the last nine months it's sickened more than 700 people, and about 40 percent of them died. Now a team of researche

美国国家公共电台 NPR Explorers Probing Deep Sea Abyss Off Australia's Coast Find Living Wonders

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We're going to speak now with someone who has spent the last month exploring a largely uncharted world, discovering some bizarre creatures that have never before been seen by humans. Dr. Tim O'Hara is a marine biologist, and we are

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Roots Of Consciousness: We're Of 2 Minds

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia, the show about human behavior, has returned with a new season of stories about the invisible forces that shape our lives. This week, they're looking at how ideas and concepts from our culture get into our heads

美国国家公共电台 NPR WATCH: What Makes Japan No. 1 In Toilet Technology

DAVID GREENE, HOST: To truly see Japanese innovation, look no further than the bathroom. Japan's high-tech, toilet-bidet combos have these menu panels that are full of rinsing and drying features, and NPR's Elise Hu is going to explain one noisy inno

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Churchill And Orwell Had In Common: Both Could Say, 'My Side Is Wrong'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The journalist Tom Ricks stopped writing about the present to write about the past. DAVID GREENE, HOST: We have heard Ricks often on this program. His newspaper reports on the U.S. military received two Pulitzer Prizes. One of hi

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Bachelor In Paradise' Suspends Filming After Sexual Assault Allegations

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: ABC may never air the next season of its Bachelor in Paradise, a fizzy spinoff of the network's reality romance show, The Bachelor. Warner Bros. has suspended production following allegations that the show may have filmed one cas

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senate Votes To Limit Trump's Power To Lift Russia Sanctions

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Members of the Senate have found something to agree on. Nearly all voted in favor of strengthening sanctions against Russia. The Senate vote on the bill was 97 to 2. Russia already faces sanctions for its actions in Ukraine, whic

美国国家公共电台 NPR Southern Baptist Convention Votes To Condemn White Supremacy

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: After showing some reluctance, the nation's largest Protestant denomination is taking a stand against white nationalism after all. NPR's Nathan Rott reports on the Southern Baptist Convention. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: The controversy

美国国家公共电台 NPR Podcasts And Audiobooks Reach Out To A New Audience: Children

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It is a good time for the spoken word. There's a whole lot out there - from radio to podcasts to audio books. Turns out there are lots of choices out there for young audiophiles too. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WOW IN THE WORLD) THE POP

美国国家公共电台 NPR Confronting The Possibility Of Monsters In 'The Essex Serpent'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In books and movies, a monster is often more than just a monster. Maybe it represents anxiety or corruption or the id. Those themes slither under the surface of Sarah Perry's new book, The Essex Serpent. Her novel is set in England

美国国家公共电台 NPR If Voting Machines Were Hacked, Would Anyone Know?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's spend a moment on an overshadowed question about Russia and the U.S. election. For President Trump, the investigation of Russian interference in last year's election is a quote, witch hunt. For some lawmakers, though, the r

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tracy K. Smith Named U.S. Poet Laureate

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Library of Congress today named Tracy K. Smith as the nation's new poet laureate. NPR's Lynn Neary spoke with her about her new role. LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: Tracy K. Smith is keenly aware that she's taking on the job of the nati

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Hasn't Online Dating Made It Onscreen?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hollywood movies love technology. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) OK, satellite imagery coming through. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Roger that... MARTIN: Spy movies, science fiction movies, hor

美国国家公共电台 NPR What Makes A Good Whodunit? 'Magpie Murders' Author Spells It Out

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Magpie Murders it's a whodunit about whodunits. It's the new book by Anthony Horowitz, his latest foray into fictional crime solving. He knows the genre well. He's written two Sherlock Holmes novels with the blessing of the Conan

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senators Grill Trump Judicial Nominees On Provocative Blog Posts

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There are more than 130 vacancies on the U.S. federal courts. And now, President Trump has started to fill some of those jobs. The number is unusually large because in the last years of the Obama administration, Republicans block

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Memory's Last Breath' An Academic Confronts Dementia

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Gerda Saunders knew something was wrong. She kept getting confused, losing her place in lessons at the University of Utah where she taught. And then, just before she turned 61, Gerda Saunders was given a diagnosis. She has early