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Southword: Living Large In Mississippi
What makes bad food so good? NPR's Debbie Elliott and Dave Anderson, filmmaker for Oxford American, team up to explore issues of appetite and health in Holmes County, the most obese county in Mississippi. It's the first of an ongoing...
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Sensorium: Dinner With A Side Of Memory
A supper club extravaganza staged in Washington, D.C., this spring enlisted all the senses — and some actors and musicians, too — to enhance diners' experience and memory of the food.
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'Suicide By Cop' Leads Soldier On Chase Of His Life
In the fall of 2010, NPR and ProPublica published an investigation about five soldiers who suffered traumatic brain injuries from the same explosion in Iraq. The report also explored the cognitive and emotional problems they've been...
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From Lens To Photo: Sally Mann Captures Her Love
Sally Mann, considered one of the most influential photographers of her time, has recently focused her work on her husband of 40 years, Larry. About 15 years ago, Larry was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Mann photographed him in a...
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A Sinking Nation
Kiribati is a nation made up of 33 tiny islands, scattered across an area of the Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of Alaska. The average height of the islands is approximately 6.5 feet. Land is scarce and drinking water can be in...
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Wrongfully Convicted: Flawed Autopsies Send Two Innocent Men To Jail
Two Mississippi men spent a combined 30 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. They were separately charged with sexually assaulting and murdering two 3-year-old girls — in two separate crimes — two years apart. The pathologist...
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Paris Underground
Paris, City of Light, really is a tale of two cities. One of them is above ground, with its beloved Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. That's the city the world sees. And then there's the city very few us will ever see -- an underground Paris,...
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Tilt-Shift, Stop-Motion Squatting In Hillside Haiti
A few miles outside Port-au-Prince is a government-established camp for displaced people — Camp Corail, the only "official" camp in Haiti. Rows and rows of neatly spaced tents provide shelter for thousands of people. But just past...
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How Much Does A Hurricane Weigh? | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
The phrase raining cats and dogs isn't quite right when you talk about hurricanes. This hurricane season, we throw an average one onto a cloud scientist's scale to see just how much water these monster weather machines carry through the...
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Residents, Church Vie For History-Rich Russian Isles
The Solovetsky Islands, less than 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, have become a popular destination. Their history is dramatic — and that drama is still being played out.
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Tiny Desk Kitchen: Bow Down To Cranberries
Native Americans and pilgrims agreed on at least one thing: Cranberries were good medicine. Nearly 400 years later, scientists are only beginning to unlock the antioxidant and other medicinal benefits of this gorgeous berry.
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Robert Krulwich: Why Can't We Walk Straight? | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
Try as you might, you can't walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you're walking straight, but as NPR's Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to...
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Composer Robert Kyr Finds Inspiration In The Desert
Composer Robert Kyr finds inspiration for his music at the Christ of the Desert Monastery in New Mexico. The beauty, grace, and solitude of the landscape gives life to his luminous work.
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Robert Krulwich: A Word Puzzle | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
You may have to watch it more than once, but see if you can find the words hiding in this video. There are at least a half-dozen. Seek 'em out and report back.
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Navy Ship And Lost Baby Reunited 30 Years Later
A young woman never fully understood the meaning of her middle name until she learned that people were looking for her. 35 years ago her mother escaped Vietnam on the USS Kirk Navy ship. Due to a string of lucky coincidences they've now...
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Tiny Desk Kitchen: Honey, Sweet Treat or Cure All?
Apiaries have gone hip, and honey does in fact have the power to heal -- some things.
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The Rebirth of a Local Folk Goddess
In China, the vast following of Mazu -- a folk goddess of the sea -- illustrates the remarkable rebirth of a local religion. But far from mistrusting the worshipers of Mazu, China's Communist party is encouraging them.
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A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space | Krulwich Wonders | NPR
Back in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb, creating what might be the greatest fireworks spectacular ever. People in Hawaii gathered on rooftops, sipping drinks, as they watched a radioactive rainbow display in the night sky.
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Tracking the Upright Primate
The human foot has changed shape in the past few million years, springing an arch that enabled us to run and walk more proficiently than our ape-like ancestors who grasped branches and swung from the trees. Now, researchers are trying to...
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In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity
An explosion of religious belief has accompanied the last 30 years of economic reform in China -- and some estimates indicate that Christians now outnumber communists.
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Female Imams Blaze Trail Amid China's Muslims
China is the only place in the world where women go to their own mosques. Female imams lead prayers and preach while sitting alongside the believers.
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Gut Check: Caterpillars Walk Gut First
Caterpillars don't have a bone in their body. They move by squeezing muscles in sequence in an undulating wave motion, but what exactly happens on the inside? Scientists wanted to find out, so they got a tiny, custom-built caterpillar...
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Shooting Inmates, The Photography of Deborah Luster.
Photography has done powerful things for Luster. In 1988, her mother was murdered by a contract killer, and as a way of coping, Luster found herself looking through the lens. Exactly one decade after her mother's death, Luster was...