In this short excerpt, Jane Goodall talks about her lifelong wish to get inside the mind of a chimpanzee. What's it like to think without words?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.
Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
Paul Collins researched forgotten stars for his book “Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck.”
The style of type used by the Obama campaign is called Gotham and was designed by the team of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.
Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. The young science of astrobiology is closing in on a discovery that will rock our world: there IS life beyond earth. New telescopes, new missions, and new discoveries in outer space and in the most remote areas of our own planet all point to one conclusion. Extra terrestrial life exists, and we're very close to finding it. Science writer Marc Kaufman explains what's changed.
NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.
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