The worst flooding in decades to affect Germany and parts of Belgium killed more than 100 people last week, and search and rescue efforts for hundreds of missing continue. German officials were quick to say that a warming climate is at least partially to blame for the catastrophic flooding.
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We asked NPR readers to share the items they can't live without in the pandemic. Dozens of readers emailed us photos — a 20-sided Dungeons & Dragons die, a Japanese cooking pot, Indian takeout, a loom — along with their funny, surprising and poignant backstories.
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Picture Show Of The Week
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Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Danish Siddiqui, who worked for the Reuters news agency based out of India, was killed last week during a clash between Taliban militiamen and Afghan troops with whom he was embedded. The 38-year-old was best known for his work covering the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, for which he and his co-workers won journalism's top prize in 2018. Click here to see more of his work.
Podcasts Of The Week
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Maria Garcia and Maria Hinojosa are both Mexican American, both mestiza, and both relatively light-skinned. But Maria Hinojosa strongly identifies as a woman of color, whereas Maria Garcia has stopped doing so. How did they arrive at such different places? (Code Switch)
Contrary to sci-fi depictions in movies like Iron Man and Star Wars, getting from point A to point B in space is a tough engineering problem. NPR Science Correspondent Geoff Brumfiel takes a look at why some new technologies might be needed to get humans to Mars and beyond. (Short Wave)
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After millions of people lost their jobs during the pandemic, many of them started their own businesses. In June people started over 440,000 new businesses. We speak with a hot dog stand owner about his journey and an economist on this trend. (The Indicator From Planet Money)
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Journalist Adam Serwer's new book, The Cruelty Is The Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America, lays out the ways in which the former president came to power and how he managed to build a loyal political following. (It's Been A Minute With Sam Sanders)
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