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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Netflix blew past Wall Street expectations this week and added close to 7.5 million new subscribers. Its popularity has been leaving rivals Amazon and Hulu in the dust. NPR's Laura Sydell looks at whether the company that made bin

美国国家公共电台 NPR The CIA Introduces Gina Haspel After Her Long Career Undercover

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The nominee to replace Mike Pompeo is his deputy, Gina Haspel. She worked undercover for three decades in some of the CIA's most challenging jobs, but critics are focused on her role in the CIA's waterboarding campaign. In response

美国国家公共电台 NPR Suicide Blast Kills Dozens At Voter Registration Center In Kabul

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Elections in Afghanistan are scheduled for October after a three-year delay amid concerns about voter fraud and poor security. And at least one of those concerns has proven valid today. Dozens are dead in two attacks near v

美国国家公共电台 NPR Anxiety Relief Without The High? New Studies On CBD, A Cannabis Extract

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The movement to legalize marijuana in many states has led to more interest in a product that is derived from cannabis. It's called CBD, and it's widely available online. Research suggests it may help to relieve pain and anxiety a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Who Cares If They're Cute? This Zoologist Accepts Animals On Their Own Terms

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Lucy Cooke is the founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society. Their motto - being fast is overrated. Of course, that's not her only claim to fame. Cooke is an Oxford-trained zoologist and an award-winning documentary filmmak

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Exorcist' Director Makes A New Movie About Exorcism (It's A Documentary)

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When The Exorcist, based on the novel by William Blatty, came to theaters in 1973, it captured the public's imagination or, more accurately, our nightmares. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE EXORCIST) MAX VON SYDOW: (As Father Merrin

美国国家公共电台 NPR Juliana Hatfield Sings The Hits Of 'Old Friend' Olivia Newton-John

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Juliana Hatfield was a darling of the 1990s indie music scene. She played with the Blake Babies and Lemonheads, and she had a hit with this edgy pop song - My Sister. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, MY SISTER) JULIANA HATFIELD: (Singin

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Bring The War Home' Shows 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists Are Really Part Of A Pack

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Last year when neo-Nazis and members of the so-called alt-right demonstrated in Charlottesville, Va., many Americans evinced shock that such a thing could happen in 2017. But Charlottesville is only the latest in a history

美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR Poetry Month: Andrea Davis Pinkney

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for some poetry. As we celebrate NPR Poetry Month, we've noticed that our Twitter hashtag - #nprpoetry - has attracted some young poets. And we know that teachers around the country sometimes use our Twitter callout to get th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Why Do Russian Journalists Keep Falling?

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Maybe Maxim Borodin was depressed in ways his friends just didn't recognize and threw himself off his fifth-floor balcony this week in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Maxim Borodin was 32 and a reporter for the local Novy Den website, where

美国国家公共电台 NPR Betting On Artificial Intelligence To Guide Earthquake Response

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Planning for natural disasters involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty, but advances in artificial intelligence may allow computers to take some of the guesswork out of the planning process. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Lesson In How To Overcome Implicit Bias

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starbucks' plan to close all of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to give their employees racial bias training has a lot of people asking, will this even work? We know little about what the training will include. Starbucks has said

美国国家公共电台 NPR Connecting The Dots On Arvo P?rt's Symphonic Journey

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Arvo Part is one of the most performed living classical composers known for his spacious and meditative sound. (SOUNDBITE OF PERFORMANCE OF ARVO PART'S SUMMA FOR STRING ORCHESTRA) SHAPIRO: You can hear how the Estonian composer arr

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Conversation About Kanye West, Twitter Philosopher

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Kanye West is writing a philosophy book on Twitter, according to Kanye West on Twitter. And the tweets - his chapters, if you will - are pretty sunny. The superstar rapper is talking about being present in his own life, about shari

美国国家公共电台 NPR How To Watch 'Westworld' Even If You've Never Seen An Episode

AILSA CHANG, HOST: There's a lot of great stuff on TV right now, which is awesome but also exhausting. We have reviewed or featured at least 13 TV shows this year alone, which is like 129 hours of assigned viewing. And we're not even counting the Oly

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Students across the country walked out of school yesterday to demonstrate against gun violence. The national school walkout also marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre outside of Denver. Paula Reed was te

美国国家公共电台 NPR Building Museum Exhibit Chronicles Scourge Of Evictions, Homelessness

DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, it's pretty rare for a book about a wrenching social problem to read like great literature. But when Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City came out in 2016, it won a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur genius grant

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Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Take A Number is our series that uses a numerical figure to explore problems around the world. And today's number is 10, which is the percentage of Hungarians who, according to a new EU survey, ar

美国国家公共电台 NPR Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige On The Future Of Marvel Movies

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Avengers: Infinity War may break box-office records when it opens this weekend, has a chance to anyway. Its over the top all-star cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch and Chadwick Boseman. The

美国国家公共电台 NPR Mel Brooks Says It's His Job To 'Make Terrible Things Entertaining'

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Fifty years ago, Mel Brooks released The Producers. It was a movie about a scam to put on a Broadway musical that lost money. Years later, it became a Broadway musical about putting on that musical. And like the fictional musical