A Kenyan Teen's Discovery: Let There Be Lights To Save Lions
One of the talks from the TED stage in Long Beach, Calif., this week came from Richard Turere, an inventor. He is a Maasai from Kenya. And he's 13."From ages 6 to 9, I started looking after my father's...
View ArticleCould This Robot Save Your Job?
The man who invented Roomba, the robotic vacuum, is back — this time, with Baxter. Rodney Brooks, roboticist and entrepreneur, brought Baxter, his latest robot, to the TED conference in Long Beach,...
View ArticleTax Day Is This Statue Of Liberty's Last Day Of Work
The intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and 28th Street looks like a lot of intersections in Los Angeles: There's a Taco Bell on one corner and a strip mall with a liquor store and a Liberty Tax Service...
View ArticleOnce A Boon For Investors, House Flipping Is Back
House flipping is back.A popular phenomenon during the housing boom, flipping is when a house is bought and sold within a six-month period. Flippers are real estate investors who buy houses, fix them...
View Article'Revenant,' 'Martian' Take Top Honors At Golden Globe Awards
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View Article'When People Can See Time': Photographer Captures Day, Night In One Image
Of all of the arts, photography may be the discipline most accustomed to the nudge of technology, and photographer and artist Stephen Wilkes fully embraces the challenge. His latest project, "Day to...
View ArticleDisney Stock Drops As Company Misses Earnings Expectations
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View ArticleWest Hollywood Pride Parade Goes On
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View Article#NPRreads: Turn Up The Volume This Weekend With These 3 Great Reads
#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the...
View Article'Star Trek Beyond' Premieres At San Diego Comic-Con
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View Article#NPRreads: Shake Things Up This Weekend With These Three Stories
#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the...
View ArticleNetflix And Cord-Cutting Era Complicates Writers Guild Contract Talks
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View ArticleHis Parents' Death Gave Him A Mission: Stop The Medical Brain Drain
When Chris Ategeka was a boy of 7 in Uganda, his parents died of HIV/AIDS. And his brother, not yet 5, died of malaria.Today he's 32. He's got a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of...
View ArticleAt TED This Week, Two Speakers Got To The Root Of Things
At the TED Conference in Vancouver this week two TED Fellows talked about putting ideas to work to invigorate marginalized communities from within, while harnessing the collective power, creativity,...
View ArticleShe Calls Her Movies 'Afro Bubble Gum Art'
When Wanuri Kahiu took to the TED Fellows stage this week in Vancouver, the 36-year-old had on green shoes and a beaded necklace worn like a crown — a hint to her offbeat worldview."My mother's a...
View ArticleAfter Almost 2 Years, 'Rick and Morty' Returns
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View ArticleQ&A: Nintendo President Says Don't Count Out Mario
The American face of Nintendo, President and Chief Operating Officer Reggie Fils-Aime, once said, "I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names."Nintendo hasn't been kicking much ass over the past few...
View ArticlePoetry In Motion: Prima Ballerina Retires After 3-Decade Career
Not every dancer can be a ballerina, and not every ballerina gets to dance with the New York City Ballet. So when one makes it, and then stays with the company for three decades, it's a big deal.Wendy...
View ArticleA New 3-D Printing Method Is Rising Out Of The Ooze
One of the presentations at the TED Conference in Vancouver this week that had much of the tech elite oohing and ahhing was something called CLIP (no relation to Microsoft's reviled animated helper) or...
View ArticleYou're Just A Blob In Layers Of Plastic
At his TED Talk in Vancouver last week, Bill Gates posed the idea that, "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than...
View ArticleTV And Hollywood Pattern-Maker Sells A Three-Decades Cache
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View ArticleJennifer Lawrence And A Cast Of Characters Light Up Comic-Con
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View ArticleComic-Con Goers Brave Long Lines At Annual Pop Culture Convention
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View Article#NPRReads: Considering The Language Of Wine And What's In A Toddler's Mouth
#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers throughout our newsroom share pieces that have kept them reading. They share...
View Article#NPRreads: Compton, The Burger Lady And A Crisis
#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the...
View Article2 Takes On Fighting Racial Discrimination From TED Fellows
The annual TED conference wraps up Saturday. It kicked off in Vancouver this week with a collection of short talks from this year's TED Fellows— a group of "rising stars" from across disciplines and...
View ArticleNews Brief: Trump Invites Putin To Washington, Comic-Con Preview
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View ArticleNPR's Summer Movie Guide: 27 Films Coming Soon To Theaters
Is it weird to keep asserting that Summer Movie Season starts Memorial Day weekend, when Avengers: Endgame, the ultimate summer movie, and also the year's (the decade's! the century's!) biggest...
View ArticleJames Franco Sued By Former Students For Alleged Sexual Exploitation And Fraud
Updated at 12:19 a.m. ET FridayActor James Franco has been named in a lawsuit that alleges he and two other men ran an acting school that sexually exploited female students. The complaint was filed...
View ArticleWant To Create A Better Mask? It's Harder Than It Seams
Five years before the coronavirus pandemic, Bill Gates didn't mince words: "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather...
View ArticleWarner Bros. To Stream All Its Films In 2021
Updated at 7:54 p.m. ETEvery Warner Bros. movie expected to come out in 2021 will now be streaming on HBO Max the same day it comes out in theaters. This includes In the Heights, Space Jam: A New...
View ArticleNBC Cancels The Golden Globes Amid HFPA Controversy
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