AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Comedian Kumail Nanjiani's new movie The Big Sick sounds like a rom-com on the surface. He's a struggling stand-up comedian who meets a cute girl at one of his shows. Sparks fly. Then they have a huge fight because she finds out...
UNIDENTIFIED PILOT: All right, guys. Everybody buckled in tight? MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: We flew in on the mail plane. How cool is that? I'll explain. Last month, I was in Southeast Alaska on a reporting trip. And I had noticed this name on a map - Meye...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Venezuela's ongoing political and economic crisis has taken a toll on daily life there. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST) CARLOS: I cannot find basic food - I mean no rice, no chicken. Fruits are very expensive. So what has reall...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Time to take the temperature of music on public radio stations across the country this month. Well, it's hot. Here's what the music mavens have put into Heavy Rotation. JESSE MENENDEZ, BYLINE: My name is Jesse Menendez. I'm a hos...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In one of the world's most densely populated cities, Hong Kong, if you want to grab a tomato for your salad, you might have to run upstairs - a lot of stairs. NPR's Rob Schmitz has this report on the vegetable gardens growing on...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Republicans in the Senate today released their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare. This long-awaited proposal marks a big step toward achieving one of the Republican Party's major goals - r...
China's Government Tightens Its Grip On Golf, Shuts Down Courses STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The president of China is taking a step that's rich with symbolism. He's been campaigning against corruption, and he's been doing that in part by attacking the game...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today from StoryCorps on this Friday, we have memories of a Chinese-American immigrant killed 35 years ago today. Vincent Chin was a draftsman living near Detroit. In 1982, Chin and a group of friends went out to celebrate his up...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: One of nature's most efficient life support systems is the egg. And over millions of years, eggs have taken on lots of different shapes, especially among birds. Biologists have been trying to figure out for a long time why that i...
GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, Truth and Lies, ideas about what happens when the truth gets distorted in such a way that it makes it kind of hard to tell what's real. LAURA GALANTE: And in this case, it's questioning whether the elections in the U...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today Truth and Lies. And what happens when people deny things that are objectively true, like this story you might remember from a couple of years ago? Can you - can you i...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, Truth and Lies - ideas about navigating a world where facts seem to be up for debate, whether it's science or history or even a presidential election and why some pe...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about truth, lies and denial. I want to start by asking about this word denialism. What is it - what's your definition of it? MICHAEL SPECTER: Denialism is som...
GUY RAZ, HOST: So for an episode about what's true and what's not, we thought we'd end the show with a ghost story. CARRIE POPPY: I was living in Sherman Oaks, which is a suburb of LA. RAZ: This is writer Carrie Poppy. POPPY: In a tiny guesthouse off...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It would be one of the Washington area's biggest construction projects in years. The FBI is hoping to move out of its aging headquarters and into a safer, more modern campus somewhere in the D.C. suburbs. One of the real estate c...
