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NPR in Gaza, A Photographer's Journal
NPR photographer David Gilkey spent a month covering the recent hostilities between Israel and Gaza. He talks about the images he made and the stories behind them in this video slideshow.
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Southword: Coming Home -- And Out -- In Arkansas
Going home can stir up mixed emotions: There's the joy of catching up, nostalgia, old flames -- grudges. Even if you haven't really considered it "home" for a decade (you probably left for a good reason) -- there's something that keeps...
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What Does Sound Look Like? | SKUNK BEAR
You can actually see sound waves as they travel through the air thanks to a clever photographic trick. tumblr.com/follow/skunkbear skunkbear.tumblr.com Twitter: @cadamole @nprscience Produced by Adam Cole Hands shot by Meg Vogel...
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Brains At Play | NPR Ed
Why do we humans like to play so much? Play sports, play tag, play the stock market, play Duck Duck Goose? We love it all. And we're not the only ones. Dogs, cats, bears, even birds seem to like to play. What are we all doing? Is there a...
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How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires
Smokey the Bear was supposed to prevent fires. But scientists now say the fire-prevention campaign is one of the main causes of today's devastating mega-fires. Photos by David Gilkey, video by Ben de la Cruz, Christopher Joyce, John W....
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In Nigerian Gold Rush, Lead Poisons Thousands Of Children
Across a swath of northern Nigeria, a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding, as lead from illegal gold mines sickens thousands of children.
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Water In The Time Of Cholera: Haiti's Most Urgent Health Problem
Life for most Haitians is a constant struggle for clean water. And now that cholera has invaded Haiti, safe drinking water has become Haiti's most urgent public health problem. The disease has killed more than 7,000 people since late 2010.
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Tiny Desk Kitchen: The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger
Thiamine mononitrate, disodium inosinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride. In this episode of Tiny Desk Kitchen we explore why so many hard-to-pronounce ingredients ended up in a school burger.
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Catching Up With Flu | SKUNK BEAR
When sick people search the Web for remedies or tweet about their symptoms, they're sending an early warning signal about disease outbreaks. Now scientists and public health officials are listening in. Credit: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard
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Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun | SKUNK BEAR | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal -- by entering the English language. But when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the results are sometimes upsetting. Credit: Adam Cole, Robert Krulwich,...
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Tiny Desk Kitchen: What The Heck Is A Pawpaw?
The pawpaw is a tropical-type fruit native to North America with a long and almost forgotten history. Thomas Jefferson once prized it, and now scientists are looking at whether the pawpaw can claim some health benefits, along with...
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7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? | SKUNK BEAR
Subscribe to NPR! http://bit.ly/NPRsubscribe It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children,...
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Poisoned Places: Tonawanda, N.Y.
It's difficult to definitively link any one person's illness to air pollution from a particular plant. But the concerns about the health effects of Tonawanda Coke's toxic pollution rallied a small group of people in Tonawanda — most of...
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To Save Wildlife, Namibia's Farmers Take Control
It's as though the U.S. government said to the people who live around Yellowstone National Park, "You know what? All those wild animals in the park — the grizzlies, the bison, the wolves — they belong to you."
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The Slammer: Mug-Shot Tabloids Spread Across The South
The tabloid — with names such as "Cellmates," "Jailbirds," "Just Busted" — shows mug shots of those arrested every week in different cities around the country. In Arkansas, The Slammer sells 7,000 copies a week. But law enforcement says...
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The Astronaut's Guide To Life In Space
NPR requested from NASA this 1980s-era video with commentary by astronauts of various missions. The footage, which we edited, arrived on VHS. We don't know much about it, except that it's playful in tone, so we decided to have some fun...
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Vintage NASA Footage: An Underwater Space Odyssey
Dive into the Neutral Buoyancy Space Simulator with 1970s astronauts as they train for zero gravity. We put some ambient music to vintage video footage from NASA to create an 'immersive' experience. (Video footage: NASA/National...
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A Blast From The Past: Shuttle Through The Decades
Over three decades, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour flew more than 100 missions. NPR takes a look back at some of the momentous video that came out of NASA's space shuttle program.
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Chili-Cheese And Sweet Tea: Candidates "Call It" At The Beacon
South Carolina's "first in the South" primary has a track record of picking the Republican presidential nominee. So you can bet the GOP contenders visit early and often. No matter who the candidate, it wouldn't be a campaign without a...
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Expert Grilling: Barbecue, Peaches And Spicy Corn
Grill master Steven Raichlen shares a few tips and techniques in anticipation of July Fourth festivities.
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Behind The Scenes And 'Back To The Future' With Photographer Irina Werning
What started as a personal project has become an Internet sensation: In the series, "Back To The Future," adults recreate their own childhood photos. And almost overnight, photographer Irina Werning has gone from shooting friends and...
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Lifting The Veil
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/21/135413427/lifting-the-veil For centuries, Islamic scholars have said that Muslim women must cover their hair. But many Muslim women don't. There are about 1 million Muslim women in America; 43 percent of...
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Nashville: Up From Prostitution
Prostitution is ubiquitous. For those involved, life can be an unending cycle of abuse, addiction and arrest. But one rehabilitation program in Nashville, Tenn. seems to be turning many of those lives around. It's called Magdalene.
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Voices From Afghanistan: Combat Post Chakrh
Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division has seen some of the fiercest combat of the war in the past six months while fighting for control of the central bazaar in Charkh, Afghanistan....