MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In Japan, people in the northern region of Hokkaido woke up to sirens and instructions to take cover. (SOUNDBITE OF SIRENS) KELLY: This after North Korea again fired a ballistic missile which, again, flew over Japan. And this...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. So imagine being able to go into the future just to, you know, get a glimpse of what things might be like. And say you walk into a home. ANAB JAIN: It's a small apartment, really small. RA...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about the things we do in the present that could have troubling consequences in the future. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't look forward to the future. I me...
GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, Future Consequences, how our decisions about science and technology today will impact our future tomorrow. And in a lot of ways, one aspect of the future has already been imagined for us. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, TERMINAT...
GUY RAZ, HOST: OK. So Juan Enriquez is saying that this is all superpromising and exciting, and we could actually eliminate disease. And we could create... PAUL KNOEPFLER: Right. RAZ: ...You know, future humans who are immune from these horrible affl...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Arizona Senator John McCain is undergoing treatment for a deadly form of brain cancer, but you'd never know it by watching him work. As the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, McCain is managing the Senate debate on the annua...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Leakers, double agents, traitors, saboteurs - their portraits hang on a wall that few Americans will ever see. BILL EVANINA: What we have here, Mary Louise, is what we call the Wall of Shame. KELLY: The Wall of Shame. That vo...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: All right, let's circle back to the U.S. and the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. As if the record rainfall and flooding were not enough, many Houston-area residents are now coping with increased air pollution. Houston's petrol...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The question of how to remember the ugliest parts of U.S. history continues to divide the country. Last month's violence over Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Va., was the latest reminder of that. Charleston, S.C., has its...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Attica Locke's new novel Bluebird, Bluebird unfolds in rural East Texas along a stretch of U.S. Highway 59. As Locke writes, it's a thread on the map that ties together small towns like knots on a string. ATTICA LOCKE: It is a hi...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Cambodia 1975 - the U.S. has been secretly bombing the country for years as part of its war with Vietnam. Then comes the Khmer Rouge, a brutal communist regime whose goal was to deport an entire nation to the countryside and form...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now to a legal battle over the welfare of chickens. The organic industry is suing the government today, demanding new rules that require organic egg producers to give chickens more space to roam. Here's NPR's Dan Charles. DAN...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The economic damage in Florida will be more limited than first thought because of Irma's path and the precautions people took. There are still a lot of challenges, though. And many businesses in the state haven't been able to reo...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump's Election Integrity Commission went to New Hampshire yesterday to hear from witnesses about voter attitudes and voter fraud. The panel's stated mission is to find ways to boost confidence in the integrity of...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The lack of electricity in a lot of Florida is one reason that people who want to return to their homes are stuck. They're having trouble finding gasoline to make the drive home. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports. JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: When...
