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What does the word “meme” have to do with evolutionary biology? And why do we call it “Spanish flu” when it was never Spanish? Science Diction is a podcast about words—and the science stories within them. If you like your language with a side of science, Science Diction has you covered. Brought to you by Science Friday and WNYC Studios.
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A weekly discussion about politics, hosted by The New Yorker's executive editor, Dorothy Wickenden.
We obsess about food to learn more about people. The Sporkful isn't for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman of Cooking Channel's You're Eating It Wrong and the book Eat More Better. A Stitcher Production.
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A fresh alternative in daily news featuring critical conversations, live reports from the field, and listener participation. The Takeaway provides a breadth and depth of world, national, and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public media.
Live performances and conversations in which artists talk about their work, their process, and themselves. Genre-blind but open-eared. Hosted by John Schaefer.
“Blindspot: The Road to 9/11” (Season 1) brings to light what happened before the 2001 terrorist attacks – 10 years of botched leads, near misses, and bureaucratic inertia. Host Jim O’Grady draws on interviews with FBI agents, high-level bureaucrats, security experts, and people who knew the terrorists personally to create a gripping, serialized audio experience. “Blindspot: Tulsa Burning” (Season 2) transports listeners to the thriving Greenwood District in 1921 – a Black city within a city ...
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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of—and to regular people you haven't—about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, The Experiment, The New Yorker Radio Hour and many others.
In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking of one of America’s great icons. Join us for a 9-episode journey into the Dollyverse. Hosted by Jad Abumrad. Produced and reported by Shima Oliaee. Dolly Parton’s America is a production from OSM Audio and WNYC Studios.
Discover a wondrously surreal world of magic, music, and mystery. This immersive, cinematic audio spectacle follows the adventures of a lonely, stage-struck janitor who is drawn into the larger-than-life universe of the Orbiting Human Circus, a fantastical, wildly popular radio show broadcast from the top of the Eiffel Tower. WNYC Studios presents a special director’s cut of this joyous, moving break from reality. Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Julian Koster, Tim Robbins, Drew Callander, Su ...
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Each week, we tell the story of what happens when individual people confront deeply held American ideals in their own lives. We're interested in the cultural and political contradictions that reveal who we are.
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Every Friday, Amy Walter brings you the trends in politics long before the national media picks up on them. Known as one of the smartest and most trusted journalists in Washington, D.C., Amy Walter is respected by politicians and pundits on all sides of the aisle. You may know Amy her from her work with Cook Political Report and the PBS NewsHour where she looks beyond the breaking news headlines for a deeper understanding of how Washington works, who's pulling the levers of power, and how it ...
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This Week In Politics: Early Voting Starts In New York and New Jersey
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Weekend Edition Saturday host David Furst and WNYC's Brigid Bergin talk about early voting.By WNYC Radio
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Don't Miss It: 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' on Broadway, 'PS' at Ars Nova
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Now that we can return to the theater, so many shows are opening — or reopening — all at once that it can be hard to keep track of what is out there and what's worth seeing. WNYC’s Culture editor Jennifer Vanasco talked to Weekend Edition host David Furst about two shows she liked that opened recently: "Thoughts of a Colored Man" on Broadway and "P…
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NYC Tried To Remove NYPD From 911 Mental Health Emergencies—But It’s Had Little Success
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After launching in parts of Harlem this summer, New York City is planning to expand a pilot program that enables 911 to dispatch teams that are led by social workers to mental health calls instead of the NYPD. The B-HEARD program will cover all of Harlem by early November before expanding into the Bronx. But new data released Friday suggests that e…
The first day of early voting kicks off Saturday. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reports.By WNYC Radio
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How a Girls’ School Fled Afghanistan as the Taliban Took Over
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In the summer, Shabana Basij-Rasikh came on the Radio Hour to speak with Sue Halpern about founding the School of Leadership Afghanistan—known as SOLA—which was the country’s only boarding school for girls. She and those around her were watching the Taliban’s resurgence in the provinces anxiously, but with determination. “It’s likely that Taliban c…
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Infrastructure Repairs In The Catskills Expected To Make NYC Tap Water Taste Funky For Weeks
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New York City’s drinking water may regularly be compared to champagne, but for the next few months, it might contain earthy and musty notes instead of its usual, pristine bouquet. But WNYC's Danny Lewis reports there is no reason to be alarmed—the funky flavor, while unpleasant to some, is harmless. The city's Department of Environmental Protection…
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Genome Traces, Beavers and Wildfire, Halloween DIY, Volcanoes. Oct 22, 2021, Part 2
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The Ancient Neanderthal Traces Hidden In Your Genome Just how much of your genome is uniquely human? It turns out the number of genetic components in the human genome that trace back only to modern humans, and not to other human lineages or ancient ancestors, are surprisingly small. In a paper published recently in the journal Science Advances, res…
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Filipino Nurses, Francis Collins Exit Interview. Oct 22, 2021, Part 1
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Biden’s Administration Preps For A Crucial Climate Conference This week, CDC advisers gave their support to approve COVID-19 vaccine boosters for those who received Moderna and J&J vaccines. The recommendations would follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of “mixing and matching” booster shots from different vaccine developers…
From boosters to breakthrough infections, pandemic vocabulary is still all over the news. On this week’s On the Media, why the terms we use to talk about the virus obscure as much as they reveal. And, why the history of medical progress is filled with so many twists and turns. Plus, why a preference for simple stories has made it so hard to keep tr…
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Outgoing Congressman David Price Weighs in on Reconciliation Compromises 2021-10-22
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Outgoing Congressman David Price Weighs in on Reconciliation Compromises This week, Democratic Congressman David Price of North Carolina announced his retirement after decades in office. He joined The Takeaway to discuss the present and future of his party. How Corporate Lobbying Influences Lawmakers Democrats are still in the process of negotiatin…
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Five Military Veterans Resign From Kyrsten Sinema, Write Scathing Letter
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There appears to be movement from Sen. Sinema on certain budget reconciliation measures, but her changing position has lost her some of the support she had. On today's show, Luke Broadwater, congressional reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, breaks down the latest on the budget reconciliation bill talks and how the House has vot…
Through the 1980s, the vast majority of people in China had never heard western music, save for John Denver, the Carpenters, and a few other artists included on the hand-picked list of songs sanctioned by the Communist Party. But in the late 90s, a mysterious man named Professor Ye made a discovery at a plastic recycling center in Heping.In episode…
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Where the N.J. Gubernatorial Candidates Stand on Policing
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We're a little more than a week away from the gubernatorial election in New Jersey. To break down where the candidates stand on issues related to policing and guns, WNYC's Matt Katz joined Morning Edition host Michael Hill.By WNYC Radio
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"Becoming Cousteau" Profiles the Undersea Explorer
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"Becoming Cousteau" is a complex portrait of the explorer who helped the world fall in love with oceans. Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus ("What Happened, Miss Simone?") traces Cousteau's journey from adventurer to environmentalist.By WNYC Studios
This episode was formerly subscriber-only. Enjoy! Season 6's upcoming episodes will become subscriber-only. The season will run through Spring, 2022. To hear all #Spooked episodes as they’re released, subscribe to Luminary directly, or to the Luminary Channel on Apple Podcasts. It’s 1967. Jerry has been drafted and just landed in Vietnam. He keeps …
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As Young Children Return to School Post Pandemic, Educators Focus In On Social Skills
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The early years of elementary school are all about learning how to learn. But some children who missed the crucial building blocks of pre-k, kindergarten and first grade are struggling to adjust to the classroom.By WNYC Radio
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Stress of Pandemic Surfaces With NYC Students Back In School
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It's been more than a month since New York City students returned to the classroom, and for many, reunions with friends and the return to routine has been a joyful relief. But educators said many are also struggling. Some schools are reporting a spike in confrontations, as the city rolls out enhanced supports for mental health.…
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Why Offshore Oil Drilling is So Bad For The Environment 2021-10-21
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Why Offshore Oil Drilling is So Bad For The Environment On October 1, a ruptured pipeline resulted in 25,000 gallons of crude spilling into the Pacific Ocean near Orange County, California. While the spill wasn’t as bad as initially feared, it reignited a debate over offshore drilling. California has an aging pipeline infrastructure with questionab…
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Sean Ono Lennon on “Imagine” At 50 Years Old
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Politics is about how we as a society come together to hash out what's important to us. Instead of politics, we talk about a 50-year old piece of music that does the same. On today's show, Sean Ono Lennon, musician and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, discusses how John Lennon's 1971 song "Imagine" was shaped by its time and has influenced music fo…
Colin Powell was a Vietnam War veteran, a four-star general, and—among other high-level positions in the U.S. government—the Secretary of State under George W. Bush. Powell was well known for his conviction that the United States should go to war only when the likelihood of victory was overwhelming. But then the Bush Administration used his popular…
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Republicans Hope To Hold On In Two Competitive NYC Council Races
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WNYC and Gothamist's Brigid Bergin and David Cruz join Morning Edition's Michael Hill to talk about what's at stake in two competitive City Council races. For more, go to Gothamist.com.By WNYC Radio
Last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor announced that the Supreme Court had broken with tradition and changed its rules for oral argument. This came after a study revealed that women are disproportionately interrupted by men in the highest court in America. This week, we’re re-airing a More Perfect episode about the Northwestern University research tha…
Jen starts an internship at a museum. But this isn’t a typical museum... it’s built inside two old, historic mansions. By this time, the original owners of these two old homes are long gone--or are they? And a night nurse dedicated to his job loves to help people. But when spirits of former patients reach out to him, he’s not sure if he can care fo…
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Unmasked Cops, Who Shoved Customer Out of Subway For Asking Why They Were Unmasked, Face Discipline
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Two police officers who were caught on camera Tuesday forcibly ejecting a subway passenger who asked them to wear a mask, will be disciplined. This comes as the MTA is trying to increase mask use on mass transit. The Chairman of the MTA says these officers, and the many others who have been spotted in the subway system without masks, are underminin…
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Newark Police Will Stop Releasing Mugshots For Minor Offenses
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Newark's police department will no longer release mugshots of people arrested for minor offenses like prostitution or harassment. Public Safety Director Brian O'Hara said mugshots remain in the public domain even when someone is cleared of wrongdoing, and that risks public shaming. "Some folks can get a hold of it, it can go viral and get completel…
