SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST: From NPR, this is HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedantam. The first emperor of China was used to getting his way. By the time he was 40, Qin Shi Huangdi was the most powerful man in the world. During his reign some 2,000 years ago...
NOEL KING, HOST: The U.N. has released a new climate science report on oceans. Here's are the headlines. Ice is melting everywhere and sea level rise is accelerating. The oceans are getting hotter faster. This is killing sea animals and disrupting fi...
NOEL KING, HOST: Letters, memos and telegrams from the Golden Age of Hollywood are collected in a new book that shows Ingrid Bergman was a so-so typist, Katharine Hepburn's signature was indecipherable and Marlene Dietrich signed her letter to Heming...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in line with her party for the moment. Just last weekend, the New York lawmaker was attacking Democrats. She said the party's failure to impeach the president was a bigger national scandal than the pre...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A major shift in the Capitol today - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced minutes ago that the House will move forward with an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) NANCY PELOSI: Th...
NOEL KING, HOST: OK. Now to political turmoil in this country. House Democrats are starting an impeachment inquiry into the president. This all started with a whistleblower, an unidentified person inside the national security community. Whistleblowin...
NOEL KING, HOST: The secretary of Veterans Affairs has told several members of Congress that they're being evicted from offices that they've been using in VA hospitals. Now, House members use these offices to meet with veterans to talk through their...
NOEL KING, HOST: The opera star Placido Domingo has withdrawn from a series of planned performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He was supposed to sing tonight, but some Met employees were upset about having to perform with him after 20 wo...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Chanel Miller's life changed in 2015 the night she was sexually assaulted by Stanford University student Brock Turner. A jury convicted Turner of three felony counts of sexual assault, and he served just three months in jail. Whe...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: DNA encodes all of our genetic information. So you might find it surprising that it is getting easier to make DNA in a lab. In fact, some companies are cranking out huge amounts of cheap, made-to-order DNA. So what are the chances...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have a story of people who earn credit card points as though it were a game. They go for sign-up bonuses and point multipliers and balance transfers. But it turns out you can lose the credit card points game, too. Here's D...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Comedian Gina Yashere has toured the world with her standup, filmed specials for Netflix and made regular appearances on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, THE DAILY SHOW) TREVOR NOAH: This royal wedding has...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: There are a lot of motorcades, a lot of security, on the streets here in Manhattan - even some security people with automatic weapons - because just down the street from our studios here, world leaders are gathering this week for...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we've been hearing this morning, world leaders are meeting in New York today. They are holding a special United Nations climate change summit. 2020 is the deadline for countries to make bigger, bolder promises to reduce greenh...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: OK. I know, I know, you just got up, but it is time to get moving. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CHA CHA SLIDE) DJ CASPER: Funky. Funky. Everybody clap your hands. Clap, clap, clap, clap your hands. MARTIN: NPR's Maria Godoy is here to tel...
