RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Robots have revolutionized auto manufacturing, but they've hardly replaced the human touch. NPR's Camila Domonoske reports. CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE: At Volvo's new plant in Ridgeville, S.C., a half dozen robot arms move in coord...
MARIA GODOY, HOST: So imagine this. You see a flyer that says the psychology of shopping study. JANET TOMIYAMA: We advertise the study as the psychology of shopping study. It sounds really fun, doesn't it? (Laughter). GODOY: (Laughter). TOMIYAMA: And...
More Than 'Kind Of Blue': In 1959, A Few Albums Changed Jazz Forever 作者:未知 来源:美国国家公共电台 2019-04-30 play stop mute max volume 00:0007:18 repeat (SOUNDBITE OF MILES DAVIS'S FREDDIE FREELOADER) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Sounds...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If you got your measles vaccine as a kid, do you need to be revaccinated as an adult? It's an important question that's coming up as health officials now scramble to contain the measles outbreaks across the country. Here's NPR's...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. So there's marital infidelity. What about financial infidelity? This is when people hide their accounts, their debts or their spending habits from their spouses or partners. Studies estimate up to 40% of American adults...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are now nearly 700 cases of measles across the country. The crisis stems in large part from activists opposed to vaccines. And one of the items they are using to show that measles isn't as scary as experts say is an o...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In Southern California, this year's super bloom has transformed the deserts and prairies into stunning mosaics of yellows, oranges, reds and blues. It's also drawn massive crowds toting selfie sticks, trying to capture this...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers and networks around the world, is, arguably, the most powerful man in media today. But in 1969, he was a hungry 38-year-old looking t...
A Workable Alternative To Nursing Homes In Vermont Adult Family Care 作者:未知 来源:美国国家公共电台 2019-04-28 play stop mute max volume 00:0004:30 repeat SCOTT SIMON, HOST: As baby boomers age and the workforce shrinks, what if th...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The World Championship of Tiddlywinks is going on in Britain's University of Cambridge this weekend. Let's get ready to rumble - or at least to pot that wink. (SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI'S FANFARE FOR ROCKY) SIMON: Carrying the hopes...
MARGARET TRUDEAU: We're on 28. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: We're on 28. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: We are in the middle of 28, yeah. TRUDEAU: Middle of 28 - so instead of... UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Well - but why don't we start with when I left? TRUDEAU: Wh...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Never been a better name for a person than Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick. She died this week at the age of 35. Charity was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension when she was a young opera singer in Europe. She had two do...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There are now 16 American states that have banned conversion therapy. Its practitioners aim to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. For the people who are supposed to be changed, conversion therapy is linked t...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Veteran stand-up comedian Brian Regan has been on the road performing pretty much nonstop since the 1980s. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BRIAN REGAN: I'm trying to go to more parties. I'm not - not good at them. I'm not good...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: After 11 years, 22 films and more heroes and villains than you can shake a magic hammer at, the current iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes to a climactic close this weekend with Avengers: Endgame. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM...