RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: But if you'd rather unplug completely, there's another option. It's called float therapy, and it's pretty much what it sounds like. You float your anxieties away in a pool. Sounds nice, but is there any evidence that it works? Jo...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Wildfires, hurricanes, confrontational politics, nuclear threats. I mean, it is no wonder the American Psychological Association has found a significant increase in Americans' stress levels this year. So if you are looking for a w...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here is a guy who is crazy - just crazy about typewriters. TOM HANKS: I have too many typewriters, David. You want one. I should have brought one for you and the staff... GREENE: (Laughter) Next time. HANKS: ...Just to help out, m...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It was an improbable story, and yet, it's true. His 2005 biography of a Caribbean orphan who became a Revolutionary War hero, and then one of the nation's most consequential founding figures, became not just a bestseller but the...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, she's gotten us pumped up for parties, consoled us through breakups, encouraged the misfits, made the meek feel strong. For close to 20 years now, Pink has offered songs that are honest, sometimes heartbreaking but...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: We are going to go now From Here To Eternity, a journey through death rituals led by mortician Caitlin Doughty. For her new book, she collected stories and histories of how cultures send their beloved off to the great beyond. Do...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to spend the next few minutes talking with artists and performers who are taking their work in new directions. And we're going to start with Johnny Fox. Fox is a sword swallower whose humor and bravado have made him a...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally, we have one more film to tell you about that opened Friday. It focuses on a little-known moment in the career of the late civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall. Long before Marshall became the first African-American to...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to an artist who has been recognized all over the world for his art installations and dissident activism in China, activism that cost him years under house arrest. We're talking about Ai Weiwei. When his passport was reissued...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And an American-Canadian family are recovering in Ontario after being rescued from kidnappers in Afghanistan. Joshua Boyle and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, had been held captive by the Haqqani network since 2012. They wer...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: We're going to hear now about cures involving radioactive elixirs, drilling holes in the head, rat poison. Yikes. What were doctors thinking? These in all manner of medical horrors through the centuries can be found in a new boo...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: In Northern California last week as massive wildfires spread rapidly through the town of Santa Rosa, two hospitals were evacuated. KQED's April Dembosky has this story of one nurse who worked through the night to get patients ou...
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: President Donald Trump made his view of the North American Free Trade Agreement clear during the presidential election. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: NAFTA was the worst trade deal in the history - it...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This week, the Boy Scouts of America decided to allow girls into its scouting program. Families are figuring out what this week's announcement means. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch caught up with a few parents and Scouts in Seattle. ANNA BOIK...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A number of countries have felt the effects of an executive order signed by President Trump soon after he entered office. The administration reinstated and expanded a policy that bars international aid groups from getting U.S. fund...
