Ailsa Chang
Stories
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Kathy Whitworth, the winningest professional golfer, died Saturday at age 83
Kathy Whitworth, the winningest professional golfer of all time, died Saturday at age 83. Whitworth won 88 LPGA Tour tournaments in a career that spanned nearly a quarter-century.
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World
A new law in Russia is Putin's latest attack on LGBTQ rights
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Oxford University professor Dan Healey about new laws in Russia that make it illegal to spread LGBTQ "propaganda."
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Sports
'Dead money' in college football is at an all time high
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Washington Post sportswriter Liz Clarke about the prevalence of "dead money" in college football as universities and boosters buyout coaches.
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Animals
Cape fur seals can recognize their pup's calls just two hours after birth
Cape fur seals can recognize their pup's cry just two hours after birth, remarkably earlier than other mammals. For context, only about 40% of women can identify their baby's cry 24 hours after birth.
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Poet Mary Norbert Korte died in November at age 88
Poet Mary Norbert Korte left her life as a nun in the 1960s to pursue dual passions for beat poetry and the preservation of California's redwood forests. She died in November at age 88.
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Animals
Researchers find rats move to the same tempos in music that humans like
Researchers at the University of Tokyo found that rats react to the same tempos that humans like.
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Education
48 thousand UCLA graduate student workers go on strike
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rafael Jaime, UCLA graduate student and UAW 2865 president, from the picket line as 48 thousand academic workers walk off the job.
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Trailblazing sportswriter Jane Gross died Wednesday at age 75
Sportswriter Jane Gross blazed a trail for women in sports journalism. She died Wednesday at age 75.
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Politics
The impact of redistricting and new congressional maps on the midterms
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Li, senior counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, about redistricting and the impact of new congressional maps on the midterm elections.
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Live performances from the '80s rock underground resurface in KCRW archive
In the 1980s and early 1990s, a Los Angeles DJ named Deirdre O'Donoghue ran a late-night KCRW show that championed underground musicians, often in live performance. That archive will soon be released.