美国国家公共电台 NPR Invisibilia: A Man Finds An Explosive Emotion Locked In A Word

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia is back for a third season. The show about the unseen forces that shape human behavior is taking a look at concepts like reality, identity, emotion and how those concepts shape our experience - sounds kind of ab

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Pink Slime' Trial Begins, But It's The News Media Under The Microscope

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In a South Dakota courtroom, ABC News will defend a series of stories it reported five years ago in a defamation lawsuit. Jury selection started today. It's a trial that could prove to be a measure of public attitudes toward the

美国国家公共电台 NPR NASA Plans To Launch A Probe Next Year To 'Touch The Sun'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: NASA held a press conference today about a mission to the sun. This is planned to launch next summer. The goal is to send a probe right into the sun's atmosphere. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell reports. RAE ELLEN BICHELL, BYLINE: There ar

美国国家公共电台 NPR Harry Styles: 'It Was Time For Me To Be Scared'

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And, you know, there have been these musical acts over the years, like The Monkees, The Jackson 5, New Kids on The Block, 'NSync - all of them had one thing in common. They had individual members leave the group and try to find th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Video: Animal Cafes Are Cool, But Does A Raccoon Cafe Go Too Far?

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The cafe industry can be cutthroat at times. You got to have the thing - right? - a gimmick to distinguish yourself, maybe an avocado latte or a cafe where you can nap. NPR's Elise Hu checked out a cafe in South Korea where you c

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'When Time Was New': 'Wonder Woman' Brings Sunlight To The DC Universe

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Wonder Woman opens this weekend. It's the first superhero film headed by women both in front of and behind the camera. In a moment, NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports on the director's lifelong affection for the character, but firs

美国国家公共电台 NPR Wonder Woman Shows Girls That Men Aren't The Only Superheros Who Rescue People

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's head to Hollywood now, where the film of the moment also stars a woman. It is - you guessed it - Wonder Woman. It opened last night to strong reviews. But what you might not know is that the princess of the Amazons has face

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Mr. Brightside' Will Never Die, And Here's Why

(SOUNDBITE OF THE KILLERS SONG, MR. BRIGHTSIDE) LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Mr. Brightside by The Killers became a hit song all the way back in 2004. That was more than a decade ago. But somehow, the song has never really gone away. In fact, it spent

美国国家公共电台 NPR This Play Was Inspired By A Real Refugee's Shakespearean Dilemma

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A new play at Chicago's Goodman Theatre seems ripped from the headlines. A young man escapes a deadly civil war then confronts new dangers in the country where he's found shelter. Objects In The Mirror is based on the true story of

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Man Learns The Truth About His Adoption In 'Everybody's Son'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A 9-year-old boy is saved after his mother leaves him in a locked airless apartment for a week - no food, water or light. He breaks out through a window, and police find him weak and bleeding. They find his mother passed out in a c

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Grief Cottage': A Ghost Story About Loneliness, Loss And Affection

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A stranger in the mind of an 11-year-old boy named Marcus gestures at an abandoned old home and tells him, people who go in don't always come out. Now, do you think that'll keep that boy away from the house they call Grief Cottage?

美国国家公共电台 NPR Food Critic Now Halfway Through Taco-A-Day Quest. Will He Fold?

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: One taco is good, but Mike Sutter thinks a lot of tacos is even better, like a lot. He is the food critic for the San Antonio Express-News. And he is now almost halfway through his quest to eat at least one taco a day all this ye

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Tweet Heard Around The Wrold

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The word of the week is covfefe. Ask your doctor about covfefe. (Singing) Say it loud, and there's music playing. Say it's soft, and it's almost like praying - covfefe. 12:06 a.m. Wednesday morning, President Trump tweeted, despite

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Extended Beauty Of Photosynthesis

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Adam Frank usually has his head in the sky. He's an astrophysicist. It's an occupational hazard. Right now, though, he is dazzled by the universe of green right here on Earth. ADAM FRANK, BYLINE: Now that we're well past the star

美国国家公共电台 NPR Massachusetts Tries Something New To Claim Taxes From Online Sales

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Each year, states lose many millions of dollars in uncollected taxes from e-commerce sales, so a lot of states have begun crafting their own rules to get some of that tax money back. Massachusetts is just the latest state to do t

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Soprano And The Scientist: A Conversation About Music And Medicine

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week, we've been reporting on the intersection of music and neuroscience. And today we are joined by music and science personified. Renee Fleming is one of the great sopranos of our time, and she's also artistic adviser at l

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Horror' Of Student's Hazing Death At Penn State Sparks Change

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Today Penn State University is expected to announce big changes for its fraternities and sororities, this after 19-year-old fraternity pledge Tim Piazza died of injuries after an alcohol-fueled party back in February. That party

美国国家公共电台 NPR John Grisham On His Latest Heist Novel, 'Camino Island'

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: John Grisham, super world-famous best-selling author of books about lawyers and judges and crime isn't - let's face it - known for his beach books. But his latest novel Camino Island is set in a Florida beach town, and the

美国国家公共电台 NPR Seamus Heaney Poems Come To Life In Belfast, Ireland

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The poet Tess Taylor left her home in California last winter to spend this semester teaching in Northern Ireland. She says she's felt poetry come to life and is learning about the value of place. TESS TAYLOR: As our plane flew low

美国国家公共电台 NPR Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk now about those memories from the '80s and the '90s on home videotapes - the kids playing in the backyard, the school concert, the birthday party, the wedding. If they're just sitting in a box somewhere, they may soon