SCOTT SIMON, HOST: France's new government now has a ministry that's devoted to gender equality. It's led by a young author and blogger known for her frank writing on sex and sexism. NPR's Joanna Kakissis met her in Paris. JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: Pa...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let me just take a minute to thank the people who were nice enough to fill in for me while I was away - Noel King, Stacey Vanek Smith and, most recently, Dwane Brown. And while he was here last week, Dwane Brown went to the Natio...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Gabriel Tallent has written his first novel at the age of 30 and no less than Stephen King calls it a masterpiece to rank with To Kill A Mockingbird and Catch-22. My Absolute Darling is the story of a clever, resourceful and lonely...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a book mystery, not a mystery book. Handbook For Mortals is actually a fantasy paranormal romance. It hit the top of the most recent New York Times young adult best seller list, which seemed odd because not many people had ev...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Chuck Lorre is television's sitcom king. But every single broadcast network turned down his latest sitcom. NPR's Neda Ulaby tells us why. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Chuck Lorre's new show starts Friday on Netflix with a huge star, Kathy...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When the film Beach Rats won the best directing prize at Sundance in January, there was snow on the ground. The film's suntanned teenagers are more in sync with the season now. Critic Bob Mondello says one of them is still not comf...
(SOUNDBITE OF VIJAY IYER SEXTET'S FAR FROM OVER) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is the music of Vijay Iyer. He's an acclaimed jazz pianist, MacArthur winner and professor of music at Harvard. This new album, recorded with a six-person band, is called Far Fr...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Imagine that you're a musician. (SOUNDBITE OF SAXOPHONE MUSIC) SIEGEL: And imagine that you discover you have a brain tumor right near the part of your brain that's key to playing your instrument. Well, there's a team of doctors...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a court decision in a case that pits president Trump's Justice Department against a web hosting company whose services were used by anti-Trump activists. The company DreamHost challenged the U.S. government over what it saw a...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The phrase endangered species often refers to charismatic animals like mountain gorillas or polar bears. Well, today scientists are reporting that a whole different type of extinction is happening inside our bodies. NPR's Michaelee...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are few brands more quintessentially American than Jeep. And now it seems possible that a foreign company could purchase Jeep from Fiat-Chrysler, its parent company. At the moment these are just rumors. Those rumors point to...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, hardwired - ideas about what determines our personalities, our traits, our behaviors and even the choices we make. And usually when we talk about the way humans are...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. So most of us think we know ourselves pretty well, right? ROBERT SAPOLSKY: I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona. RAZ: That we're good people... SAPOLSKY: You know, I'm...
GUY RAZ, HOST: So if Moshe Szyf is right, that positive experiences can rewrite DNA and improve health, what about negative experiences? Well, about 10 years ago, a pediatrician named Nadine Burke Harris was asking herself that very same question. NA...
GUY RAZ, HOST: So how would you describe your personality? BRIAN LITTLE: Oh, goodness me, my personality is, I guess, fairly complex. RAZ: This is Brian Little. LITTLE: I'm a research professor in psychology at the University of Cambridge. RAZ: And B...
