美国国家公共电台 NPR Michael Specter: What Happens When We Ignore Scientific Consensus?

GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about truth, lies and denial. I want to start by asking about this word denialism. What is it - what's your definition of it? MICHAEL SPECTER: Denialism is som

美国国家公共电台 NPR Carrie Poppy: Can Science Reveal The Truth Behind Ghost Stories?

GUY RAZ, HOST: So for an episode about what's true and what's not, we thought we'd end the show with a ghost story. CARRIE POPPY: I was living in Sherman Oaks, which is a suburb of LA. RAZ: This is writer Carrie Poppy. POPPY: In a tiny guesthouse off

美国国家公共电台 NPR Real Estate Firm With Ties To Trump May Build The New FBI Headquarters

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It would be one of the Washington area's biggest construction projects in years. The FBI is hoping to move out of its aging headquarters and into a safer, more modern campus somewhere in the D.C. suburbs. One of the real estate c

美国国家公共电台 NPR Shakespeare Companies Suffer Backlash After 'Julius Caesar' Controversy

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The controversy over a production of Julius Caesar depicting Caesar as Donald Trump is spreading. In the play, Caesar is assassinated. The production in question was by New York's Public Theater, part of its Shakespeare in the Pa

美国国家公共电台 NPR A New Delhi Family Learns To Navigate Wealth After A 'Windfall'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the novel The Windfall, a newly minted tech millionaire buys a big fancy house, a flashy car, and he leaves his middle-class life behind to rub elbows with the superrich. What follows is a delightful comedy of errors whe

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Call-In: Your Questions About Making Relationships Last

(SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S MY DEAR) LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Time now for The Call-In. It's wedding season. And today we're talking about love. We asked you for your stories, advice and questions. JENNIFER INGRAHAM: Hi, NPR listeners. This is Jennife

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'But Seriously,' Tennis Great John McEnroe Says He's Seeking 'Inner Peace'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the early to mid-1980s, John McEnroe was the top ranked men's tennis player in the world, winning Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four. He also became known for his outbursts, like this one on the court when he t

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Interlaced Fingers' Traces Roots Of Racial Disparity In Kidney Transplants

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for an improbable love story. Now, here you might be thinking, aren't the bookshelves groaning with those? But here's a love story that did not just change two people's lives. It shed light on inequalities that our next guest

美国国家公共电台 NPR Imagine Dragons On Catching Up To Rock Stardom

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, it might be hard to imagine this but some people still find rock music hard to take. But even if that's you, I bet it was hard to resist this song. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, RADIOACTIVE) IMAGINE DRAGONS: (Singing) I'm wa

美国国家公共电台 NPR Inside French Prisons, A Struggle To Combat Radicalization

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We now get a rare look inside a French prison. Officials in France say prisons have become incubators of extremism. Many of the homegrown terrorists who've launched attacks in places like Paris and Brussels recently were ra

美国国家公共电台 NPR Alaska's 40 Years Of Oil Riches Almost Never Was

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Alaska's Prudhoe Bay Oil Field started production 40 years ago this month. Twelve billion barrels of oil later, it's completely reshaped Alaska. Finding Prudhoe Bay led to a major economic boom and also to the Exxon Valdez

美国国家公共电台 NPR How It All Turned Out: A Kindergarten Story, 13 Years Later

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Today we have an update to a story we first told back in 2004. That September, NPR's Claudio Sanchez set out to document one of the biggest days in a kid's life, the first day of kindergarten. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) MA

美国国家公共电台 NPR Unconscious Prejudice Meets Real-World Horror In 'The Exception'

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Berlin, 1940. A young German officer is given a new mission. The Reich is sending him to Holland to guard the exiled former German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE EXCEPTION) ANTON LESSER: (As General Falkenberg

美国国家公共电台 NPR Imagining Daniel Day-Lewis In A Life Without Acting

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: He brooded as Lincoln, seduced in The Unbearable Lightness Of Being and murdered in There Will Be Blood. This week, Daniel Day-Lewis, three-time Oscar winner and incomparable film chameleon, announced he's retiring from acting at

美国国家公共电台 NPR Video: K-Pop Dance Routines Are A Workout For Body And Brain

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Korean pop, or K-pop as it's known, has been huge - all the rage for a long time. It's a dance style, and it takes some serious training. NPR's Elise Hu and Code Switch's Kat Chow found out the hard way. ELISE HU, BYLINE: If you'

美国国家公共电台 NPR Los Angeles Moves Closer To Legalizing Sidewalk Food Vendors

DAVID GREENE, HOST: LA has tens of thousands of street vendors. But there's no system for them to operate legally. Now there's a movement to change that. As Parker Yesko reports, one thing helping is local resistance to President Trump's immigration

美国国家公共电台 NPR Protect, Serve And Take Care Of The Bees

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps. And today we're going to hear from a man who, for 20 years, repeatedly saved New Yorkers from bees. Anthony Planakis is a fourth-generation beekeeper and a retired New York City Police detective. He serve

美国国家公共电台 NPR After Outcry, Sculpture Depicting Dakota Tragedy To Be Dismantled, Burned

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Tomorrow, a sculpture that was recently installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden will be dismantled. Later on, it will be burned in a ceremony. This was not the original intention of the artist. As Minnesota Public Radio's E

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why A Theater Director Made A 'Color-Conscious Choice' In 'Virginia Woolf' Casting

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The next story started when a director and producer from a tiny theater in Portland, Ore., posted a message on Facebook. He was outraged that the estate of Edward Albee wouldn't grant him rights to produce Who's Afraid Of Virgini

美国国家公共电台 NPR White House Discloses Ethics Waivers For Presidential Aides

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last night, the White House released 14 ethics waivers, documents that exempt some top presidential aides from important ethics rules. As NPR's Peter Overby reports, the disclosures came after a quiet but tough battle between the