NPR's Will Stone has been covering the coronavirus since the first confirmed U.S. case landed in Seattle, where he lives. Then in August, he got COVID-19 — despite being vaccinated. Here's what he wishes he'd known about the vaccine.
She's spent more than a year spreading misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccines meant to end it, but Dr. Simone Gold has faced no disciplinary action from her professional peers. She doesn't even have an official complaint against her. And she's not the only doctor doing this.
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A new company aims to bring back woolly mammoths using recovered DNA. They already have $15 million in funding and hope the species can help us combat climate change. But other scientists say it's a bad idea.
As the nation begins its annual celebration of Latino history and culture, it's not too late to ask why we lump together roughly 62 million people with complex identities under a single umbrella? NPR's Vanessa Romo unpacks why we're still referring to this month as Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Meet Neffy, NPR's 2021 Tiny Desk Contest winner! Known to her family as Mecca Russell, her sparse and deep winning song, "Wait Up," captured the judges' ears from her opening line. Watch her winning entry here.
As the famous line from Jennifer's Body goes,"Hell is a teenage girl." Olivia Rodrigo's spiky "good 4 u" isn't just a breakup song, it's Rodrigo's latest contribution to a tradition of art about the right of teenage girls to get angry.
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Fall is here and that means a mountain of new shows and movies are flooding your streaming services. Thanks to the Pop Culture Happy Hour crew, here's your viewing guide, sortable by service, (if, like us, keeping track of what's where is a constant struggle.)
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Ambreen Tariq immigrated to Minnesota from India when she was eight. It was in the outdoors that her family found joy during that enormous transition. Now, Tariq has written a children's book about what it means to belong in nature. (Short Wave)
It's one of the most common and perplexing friend mysteries out there: Why friends ghost friends. Why are these real-life ghost stories so haunting? And what can we do about the friends that got away? (Invisiblia)
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