Michael Levitt
Stories
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Nearly all of Uranus' 27 moons have Shakespearean names. What'll this one be called?
Scientists have found a 28th moon around Uranus. In keeping with tradition, they plan to name it after a Shakespearean character. Scholar Michael Dobson weighs in on the suggested name, "Violenta."
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Environment
Capturing Yosemite's gorgeous — and elusive — natural 'firefall'
Photographer Evan Russel and fine artist James McGrew set out to capture an elusive natural phenomenon. But as they discovered, nature can be fickle.
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Arts & Life
Greta Lee of 'Past Lives' talks about how language and identity are intertwined
Greta Lee stars in the new movie Past Lives. She talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the film and the ways language and identity are intertwined.
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World
An account from the frontline of 'the largest displacement of children on the planet'
James Elder is a spokesperson for UNICEF — the U.N. agency that provides humanitarian aid to children — and has been visiting the areas on the border of Sudan and Chad.
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World
A first-hand account from the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and Chad
We hear rare eyewitness testimony from Darfur, one of the worlds unseen and often forgotten conflicts — which has resulted in the largest child displacement crisis in the world.
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National
From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'
If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.
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World
Sad tourists sent home as Eiffel tower closes amid workers strike
Union workers in Paris's Effiel tower have gone on strike, closing the monument's doors on what was meant to be a day of commemoration of its creator.
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World
An inside account of delivering aid to Gaza: 'Each time it's getting more desperate'
Philippe Lazzarini has visited Gaza three times since the war began. He says each time he can't imagine the situation could get more desperate — and then it does.
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Business
The uncomfortable hidden truths about cheap cashmere
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ginger Allington, landscape ecologist and assistant professor at Cornell, about unsustainable practices used in producing cheap cashmere.
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Politics
This new council member's vote for himself won him the election
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ryan Roth, newly-elected city council member for Rainier, Wash., about winning his seat by one vote — a vote he cast himself.