When the Wankel T. rex arrived at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History last April, the skeleton was in pieces — in a couple dozen packing crates.
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hed history of bringing depth to important issues glossed over or even ignored by other med...ia outlets. It was with great disappoint ment and a heavy heart that I heard about NPR slashing the staff available for what's likely the most critical existentia l crisis of the century (and beyond), the climate. I'm a fan, and likely always will be, but.. shame on you. See More - Are the stories of your being in the pockets of big oil and the Koch Brothers as they relate to the downsizing
of your e...nvironment al and climate reporting true? I've seen a number of progressiv e articles (Daily Kos and Think Progress among those) in my feed making those allegation s and if true, I'm really disappoint ed. Why are you cutting back in that area specifical ly? We need more reporting on climate and environmen t, not less! See More - Debbie WoloskyReducing your environmen
tal news staff by 2/3's was a very very bad move. This is the premier issue of our era. If we ...don't get this right, nothing else matters. You have chosen to be beholden to your purse strings rather than your journalist ic integrity. When you've lost that, what is the point of NPR? See More
The Republican takeover Tuesday night puts Sen. Lisa Murkowski in charge of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. That's great news for Alaska, which is always eager for the feds to allow more oil drilling in the state. But what does her chairmanship mean for the other side of that coin — global warming?
South Carolina has taken apprenticeship beyond the building trades to fields like nursing, pharmacy and IT. What's the secret sauce? A state tax credit for companies doesn't hurt — but at $1,000 per year per apprentice for four years, it's pretty modest. A big factor is Germany. Companies like BMW and Bosch have plants in the state and brought with them the German system of apprenticeships.
NPR spoke with longtime AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves about comparisons between the panic over Ebola in the U.S. and the panic and paranoia around AIDS in the 1980s. Here’s one of the highlights of the interview:
“Back in the old days of ...AIDS, it was health care workers that braved the fear and paranoia to take care of my friends who were sick and dying. Nurses like Kaci Hickox [the Maine nurse who defied a quarantine after returning from caring for Ebola patients in West Africa] are being targeted unfairly. Now, we're saying we're not going to let you target people who have cared for Ebola patients. Health care workers stood up for us then [during the early days of the AIDS epidemic], and now we need to stand up for them.” See More
“Back in the old days of ...AIDS, it was health care workers that braved the fear and paranoia to take care of my friends who were sick and dying. Nurses like Kaci Hickox [the Maine nurse who defied a quarantine after returning from caring for Ebola patients in West Africa] are being targeted unfairly. Now, we're saying we're not going to let you target people who have cared for Ebola patients. Health care workers stood up for us then [during the early days of the AIDS epidemic], and now we need to stand up for them.” See More
Making license plates is the stereotypical job for a prisoner, but in California's Central Valley, a group of inmates are doing very different work, supplying milk to almost every prisoner in the state system. Typically, this is the inmates...’ first job in agriculture.
"They come in and they haven't really seen a cow before, haven't milked a cow before,” says Rob Roehlk, an administrator with the California Prison Industry Authority. Some come from a construction background. Others have experience operating heavy equipment. "We just build on it," Roehlk says. See More
"They come in and they haven't really seen a cow before, haven't milked a cow before,” says Rob Roehlk, an administrator with the California Prison Industry Authority. Some come from a construction background. Others have experience operating heavy equipment. "We just build on it," Roehlk says. See More
"There were many, many thousands of Nazi collaborators who got visas to the United States while the [Holocaust] survivors did not — even though they had been, for instance, the head of a Nazi concentration camp." - investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau, author of "The Nazis Next Door."
Brazil's judicial system faces a massive backlog of cases — and stacks of paperwork. One group of five judges in Sao Paulo is currently handling 1.6 million cases. http://n.pr/1x4Xta7
Updated Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 7:45 p.m.
State Senator Daniel Hall has switched from Democrat to Republican, switching the balance of power. For more, see this story: http://wvpublic.org/post/hall-switches-parties-gop-will-control-both-chamers-west-virginia-legislature
State Senator Daniel Hall has switched from Democrat to Republican, switching the balance of power. For more, see this story: http://wvpublic.org/post/hall-switches-parties-gop-will-control-both-chamers-west-virginia-legislature
The number a statistician arrived at was 2 million. Here's how he reached it.
The money won’t flow like all that water California wishes it had.
Oregon voters pass Measure 91 to legalize marijuana, so what does that mean for the state?
That first show, hosted by Bob Edwards and Barbara Hunter, included an interview with a young actor named Martin Sheen about "Apocalypse Now"; a report on a failed prison escape by James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.; and a story about Rhodesia, a country that no longer exists.
A newly-released photo collection from the early 1900s shows what life in rural Idaho was like.
All made in a community recording studio in Southwest Philadelphia.
This is what she sounds like when she's not telling you to "step back, doors closing"
This weekend, Germany will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To mark the event, we are trying to track down fragments of the wall. Do you own a small piece of this history? We would love to hear your story about how you found/inherited/came to own a piece. If you are willing to share, please send us your story in an email to nprcrowdsource@npr.org with the subject line BERLIN WALL.
Why do people sometimes give generously to a cause — and other times give nothing at all?
Teachers at Flushing International High School in New York say they strive for a balance: Kids are encouraged to speak in English but are also given the opportunity to learn in their native language.
Nearly 30 percent of Russian children with disabilities live in state orphanages, according to Human Rights Watch. Anastasia says she couldn't bear to leave her child behind. http://n.pr/1yX2i37
"We could see this as a potential Vermont 'embassy' in Massachusetts."
Not everyone agrees the city is doing it the right way.
The White House had braced for the loss of half a dozen seats or more in the Senate. There also was resignation about the probable loss of another dozen or so seats in the House. But no one was really prepared for the carnage that ensued.
If you've had a kidney stone and want to spare yourself the agony of a repeat episode, here's some simple advice.
Florida's medical marijuana ballot measure fell short of the 60 percent approval required. Oregon voters approved Measure 91, allowing legalization. Alaska also voted to legalize pot.
Americans alone, on average, throw out about 20 pounds of food a week, most of it hauled away with the trash.
Today’s special: printed food. Army researchers will try to find ways to 3-D print nutritious food with lighter packaging than the current military meals.
"One thing I hope, five years from now, is more tech colleagues of mine like the *elite* elite teams, are flowing in and out of government. We want to create an environment where, in addition to amazing policy groups ... tech teams feel comfortable, included and are in leadership positions here." -- Megan Smith, the former vice president of Google X who is now the nation's chief technology officer.
Republicans have picked up the six seats they needed to retake control of the Senate, with major victories in North Carolina, Colorado and Arkansas, and added to their margin in the U.S. House, changing the political dynamic in Washington and complicating the legislative agenda for President Obama's final two years in the White House.
Clay Aiken loses North Carolina House race to Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers. http://n.pr/1t9ilJ3
Republican Greg Abbott has been elected governor of Texas, defeating Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis. http://elections.npr.org/
Melissa Block and Robert Siegel in the studio as the polls close and the results roll in. #nprparty http://elections.npr.org/
Earlier in 2014