Mallory Yu
Stories
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To a survivor of Japanese incarceration, ICE detentions feel painfully familiar
Mary Murakami was 14 years old when she was forcibly relocated and imprisoned during World War II. The Trump Administration's immigration enforcement actions resurface painful memories.
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Remembering Sonny Curtis, singer and 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' theme song writer
Prolific singer and songwriter Sonny Curtis has died. He wrote and performed "Love Is All Around," the theme song for The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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A blind scientist explains her passion for understanding gravitational waves
Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through spacetime.
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Adapting to coastal erosion in Louisiana and Alaska
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the team from the WWNO/WRKF podcast Sea Change about their reporting on community responses to climate-driven coastal erosion in Alaska and Louisiana.
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Internal National Guard documents show top brass knows mission is unpopular
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Washington Post reporter Alex Horton about internal documents from the National Guard assessing public sentiment about the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
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A record number of shipwrecks have been discovered in the Great Lakes in recent years
NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.
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What the largest Kurdish population in the United States means to Nashville
Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in the United States — and a new podcast, "The Country In Our Hearts" from WPLN, tells the story of the diaspora.
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The dangers of a Powerball office pool
An individual person's odds of winning the lottery are slim, so an office pool can be a way to improve your odds. But how do you avoid the pitfalls of the office lottery pool?
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Giraffes aren't just one species — they're four
We're used to thinking of giraffes as one species. Turns out, there are actually four distinct species of the world's tallest mammal.
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A group of unhoused people fight for a tiny plot of land and a radical idea
A discussion with KQED's Snap Judgment team about the podcast A Tiny Plot that follows a group of homeless people in Oakland and their fight for their own plot of land from the city.