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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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How Small Inequities Lead To Big Inequalities

Jul 24, 2017
How do societal inequalities arise and persist? Tania Lombrozo interviews philosopher Ron Mallon about "accumulation mechanisms": the processes that explain how small biases can have big effects.
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Simon Says
A Knightscope K5 security robot roamed the Prudential Center in Boston on May 22, 2017.
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I Sink, Therefore I Am: This Robot Wasn't Programmed For Existential Angst

Jul 22, 2017
After a security robot drowned in a fountain in Washington, D.C., NPR's Scott Simon muses on robot suicide, and how long it will be until a robot has the capacity to question its own existence.
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NPR Ombudsman
For comparison, the current "commentary" label is less visible below the time and date stamp of opinion pieces, such as the Ombudsman columns.
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NPR.org To More Clearly Label Opinion Pieces

Jul 20, 2017
Starting next week, NPR will offer more visual clues to distinguish opinion writing.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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Babies And Bankers' Hours: A Shift In U.S. Birth Patterns

Jul 20, 2017
We schedule our work and leisure dates, why not the birth dates of our babies? Anthropologist Barbara J. King looks at this trend in evolutionary perspective.
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Television
Actors Daniel Dae Kim (far left) and Grace Park (second from right) appeared alongside Alex O'Loughlin (far right) and Scott Caan in CBS's <em>Hawaii Five-0.</em>
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'Hawaii Five-0' Casting Announcement Doesn't Fix CBS's Larger Diversity Problem

Jul 19, 2017
CBS announced the three new actors who will be joining the cast of its cop drama. To no one's surprise, all are nonwhite. But the network still has work to do.
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Commentary
Coach Shaheer Mohammed encourages his team from Lexington, Mass. after a difficult loss.
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Batting With A Rock-Hard Ball, For The Love Of The (Cricket) Game

Jul 19, 2017
It was an all-American scene to be sure, but not your typical 4th of July family sporting event.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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To Defend Western Civilization, Start With Science

Jul 18, 2017
We should defend Western Civilization's best achievements. Let us start with something obvious from which we all benefit: Let us defend science, says blogger Adam Frank.
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Shots - Health News
The goal was to make sure hospitals didn't send patients home too soon, without a plan for following up or without enough support at home to recover completely.
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Pushing Hospitals To Reduce Readmissions Hasn't Increased Deaths

Jul 18, 2017
The Affordable Care Act penalizes hospitals if patients are discharged and then readmitted with the same problems too often. That effort has improved care for patients, two researchers say.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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Technology Can Be A Tool, A Teacher, A Trickster

Jul 17, 2017
Shaping technology to some form of learning could depart pretty radically from the more familiar aim of shaping technology to the way we are now, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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Simon Says
A man mourns late Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong.
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Remembering Liu Xiaobo, Who Fought For Human Rights In China

Jul 15, 2017
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Liu Xiaobo and the principles he stood for in China, and wonders how Americans and American institutions will respond to his death.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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More Bad News For Brain-Training Games

Jul 14, 2017
In a new study, neither control subjects nor those who used Lumosity games showed improvement beyond getting better at the specific games they were playing, says blogger Alva Noë.
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Donald Trump Jr. is interviewed by host Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel television program the day he posted a series of email messages to Twitter showing him accepting help from what was described to him as a Russian government effort to aid his fa
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Here Lies A Use Of 'Lied'

Jul 13, 2017
An update on NPR's use of a loaded word.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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Clinics Aim For Fear-Free Vet Visits For Nervous Pets

Jul 13, 2017
Reducing dogs' and cats' stress levels at the vet is getting a big push in a new movement within veterinary medicine, says anthropologist Barbara J. King.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
This image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region was obtained by multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
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Is The Universe Conscious?

Jul 12, 2017
The idea of a conscious universe seems to fly in the face of our deep-seated materialist worldview, whereby all existence is due to material particles and their interactions, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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Goats and Soda
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks a Press conference after a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery on June 29, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
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Macron Got A Lot Wrong About Africa ... But Made One Good Point

Jul 11, 2017
In answering a reporter's question, the French president characterized Africa as a continent of failing states with high birth rates. Viviane Rutabingwa shares her perspective.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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Seeing John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps'

Jul 11, 2017
John Coltrane's Giant Steps is a great piece of American music, says blogger Adam Frank. In this video, musician and artist Michal Levy uses spatial metaphors to represent the song's symmetries.
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All Tech Considered
Mat Johnson's books include <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/408585487/loving-day" target="_blank">Loving Day</a><em>,</em> <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/137872346/pym" target="_blank">Pym</a><em> </em>and the graphic novel <em>Incogne
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A Novelist Forces Himself To Press On After Losing 100 Pages In A Tech Glitch

Jul 11, 2017
Mat Johnson's recent hard-drive failure wasn't the first time he experienced data loss. This time, despite losing more work than ever before, he's less panicked: "I can write new words," he says.
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Goats and Soda
To mark Safe Motherhood Day 2016, Ritah Namwiza talked to Ugandan students about health.
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What This Teen Mom Wishes She'd Known Before She Got Pregnant

Jul 11, 2017
She was ashamed to be seen buying condoms. She didn't dare ask her mother for advice. So how can Uganda bring down its high rate of teen pregnancy?
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My Son Is In Special Education And I Want Him To Be Challenged

Jul 11, 2017
Seeing his potential, one mother wonders why her child isn't held to higher standards at school, despite his learning disability.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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You Can Learn From Declaring A Mystery

Jul 10, 2017
A new paper suggests that to declare something a mystery isn't just a confession of ignorance: Some of the time, you can learn something important from it, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
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Simon Says
Neil Cohen, who died at age 72. One of his books, <em>The Law of Probation and Parole</em>, has been cited by the Supreme Court.
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Remembering 'Captain' Neil Cohen, Summer Camp Counselor And Sage

Jul 07, 2017
NPR's Scott Simon remembers Neil Cohen, who first handed Simon The New York Times one summer at Camp Indianola. Cohen was his camp counselor, and went on to become an attorney and law professor.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
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Why You Should Think Twice About Those DNA-By-Mail Results

Jul 06, 2017
Can anthropology help us think skeptically about DNA ancestry-testing? Barbara J. King interviews anthropologist and author Jonathan Marks on racism in science.
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Goats and Soda
Students march during the celebration of Ghana's 60 years of independence on March 6 in Accra.
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Why I Love (And Question) Independence Day

Jul 03, 2017
He grew up marching to celebrate Ghana's independence and now marvels at America's big July 4 bash. George Mwinnyaa reflects on the meaning of independence.
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Parallels
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects Chinese troops of the People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong on Friday. Xi landed in Hong Kong Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of Beijing taking control of the former British colony.
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As Hong Kong Marks Handover Anniversary, A Push And Pull With China Over Identity

Jul 01, 2017
There's anxiety in Hong Kong over things appearing from mainland China. But the continued presence of things not found on the mainland shows there's still a gap between this and other Chinese cities.
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StoryCorps
The Waters triplets at about five weeks old, not long after they came home from the hospital.
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The Ups And Downs Of Togetherness And Independence When You're A Triplet

Jun 30, 2017
In a StoryCorps booth in Bloomington, Ind., Maddy, Zoë and Nick Waters, 10, talk about what it means to be a "three-in-one package."
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