RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The cafe industry can be cutthroat at times. You got to have the thing - right? - a gimmick to distinguish yourself, maybe an avocado latte or a cafe where you can nap. NPR's Elise Hu checked out a cafe in South Korea where you c...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And, you know, there have been these musical acts over the years, like The Monkees, The Jackson 5, New Kids on The Block, 'NSync - all of them had one thing in common. They had individual members leave the group and try to find th...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps. And today we're going to hear from a man who, for 20 years, repeatedly saved New Yorkers from bees. Anthony Planakis is a fourth-generation beekeeper and a retired New York City Police detective. He serve...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Tomorrow, a sculpture that was recently installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden will be dismantled. Later on, it will be burned in a ceremony. This was not the original intention of the artist. As Minnesota Public Radio's E...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The next story started when a director and producer from a tiny theater in Portland, Ore., posted a message on Facebook. He was outraged that the estate of Edward Albee wouldn't grant him rights to produce Who's Afraid Of Virgini...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last night, the White House released 14 ethics waivers, documents that exempt some top presidential aides from important ethics rules. As NPR's Peter Overby reports, the disclosures came after a quiet but tough battle between the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia is back for a third season. The show about the unseen forces that shape human behavior is taking a look at concepts like reality, identity, emotion and how those concepts shape our experience - sounds kind of ab...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: In a South Dakota courtroom, ABC News will defend a series of stories it reported five years ago in a defamation lawsuit. Jury selection started today. It's a trial that could prove to be a measure of public attitudes toward the...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: NASA held a press conference today about a mission to the sun. This is planned to launch next summer. The goal is to send a probe right into the sun's atmosphere. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell reports. RAE ELLEN BICHELL, BYLINE: There ar...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The poet Tess Taylor left her home in California last winter to spend this semester teaching in Northern Ireland. She says she's felt poetry come to life and is learning about the value of place. TESS TAYLOR: As our plane flew low...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Today we meet Howard Scott Warshaw, the man behind one of the early failures of the computer era. HOWARD SCOTT WARSHAW: I did the E.T. video game, the game that is widely held to be the worst video game of all time. SIEGEL: The A...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The war in Syria is a conflict of the social media age. Cellphones are ubiquitous among the rebels, the government, even ordinary citizens. And that means almost no bad deed goes unrecorded. As NPR's science correspondent Joe Pal...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A little known 19th century French painter is having a big show at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art right now. And the reason he's not well known is a sad one. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg brings us the story...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There are museums, and then, there are wonderfully specific museums. We're talking about such institutions as the American Toby Jug Museum, the German Watering Can Museum and, of course, the U.S. National Tick Museum. All of thes...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: At the University of Wisconsin, some students are blending art and science to create hotels that might save disappearing insects. Susan Bence of member station WUWM explains. SUSAN BENCE, BYLINE: Every year, lecturer Katie Martin-M...
