SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In Argentina the case of a dead prosecutor has riveted the country and caused a political crisis. Alberto Nisman was found in his apartment with a bullet to the head just over a month ago. That was after he accused Argentina's pres...
Norman Swan: One of the things often missing in modern medicine is attention to or respect for the spiritual life of patients and families, which includes miraculous thinking. And that's why Rhonda Cooper developed the AMEN tool. Reverend Cooper is t...
Thank you, President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen; distinguished guests, undistinguished guests - you know who you are, honored faculty and creepy Spanish teacher. And thank you to all the graduating class of 2009, I realize most of you are hungover a...
In which the author answers the question that Freud asked, but never could figure out: What do women want? For good measure, he also reveals what men really want. We love you, are proud of you, expect good things from you, and wish you well. This is...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Lynsey Addario, had been a photojournalist working in war zones for 10 years when she was kidnapped in Libya in 2011 while covering the fighting between Muammar Qaddafi's troops and rebel forces. She was...
On Mondays and Thursdays, I learn how to die. I call them my terminal days. My wife Fernanda doesn't like the term, but a lot of people in my family died of melanoma cancer and my parents and grandparents had it. And I kept thinking, one day I could...
Can heroism be taught? What about combat medals for drone operators, or socially engineered moral crusaders? Hello there, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future Tense. This week on the program, how our notions of heroism are changing and who, or what...
Time for some number crunching from our data expert, Mona Chalabi, from fivethirtyeight.com. And she has given us this number of the week. AUTOMATED VOICE: Thirty-eight. MARTIN: That is the percentage of American wives who earn more than their husban...
OK. What comes to mind when you think of Scandinavia - great education systems, the world's happiest people, healthy work-life balance, maybe? Well, one man, a British transplant living in Denmark, didn't buy it. So he's trying to set the record stra...
On September 10, the morning of my seventh birthday, I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes and my father was reading the paper or something, and I sort of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said, Hey,...
On RN, this is The Body Sphere, with Amanda Smith. When it's welcome, it's lovely. When it's not welcome, it's horrible. There's no doubt that these days we're very touchy about touch, especially around children, and for very good reason. But are tab...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Lots of people play video games to escape the real world, but a new type of virtual reality experience does just the opposite. It takes you to the streets of Syria and other conflicts zones gripped by very real violence. But as r...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Can't they take a joke? That question came up after the Danish cartoon controversy about 10 years ago and now again after the massacres in Paris. The suspected killers reflect just a minority of extreme religious fanatics but the q...
When I was young, I prided myself as a nonconformist in the conservative U.S. state I live in, Kansas. I didn't follow along with the crowd. I wasn't afraid to try weird clothing trends or hairstyles. I was outspoken and extremely social. Even these...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You've probably heard of dusting for fingerprints at the scene of a robbery or a murder. But now investigators can do the same thing for a different kind of crime - killing birds of prey. In Britain and in other parts of Europe,...
