Renee Montagne: All this week we have been talking about your privacy, today we will meet a man who keeps very little private, in fact, puts his life online with a sound track. This music greets web surfers at a blog for Jonathon Coulson. There he w...
Renee Montagne: Hundreds of thousands of Americans have back surgery every year at a much higher rate than any other country. Whether there are too many back surgeries is a hotly debated subject in orthopedist , NPR's Joanne Silberner examines the q...
Steve Inskeep: Each Friday morning, we bring you another installment of StoryCorps, the oral history project that travels the country, collecting the stories of everyday people. They interview each other. Excerpts are archived at the Library of Cong...
Don Gonyea: After 17 days of skiing, skating, sliding and yes, even a little doping , the Winter Olympics end today. For NPR sports correspondent Tom Goldman, the Turin Games are the seventh Olympic he has covered. Looking back, he has this essay on...
Steve Inskeep: Many Chinese businesses and collectors are using their new wealth to buy back some of the country's history. Treasures plundered in wars or stolen by tomb robbers. One company has made this its specialty. The Poly corporation, which s...
Michelle Norris: From NPR News, this is All Things Considered. I'm Michelle Norris. Robert Siegel: And I'm Robert Siegel. The 1918 flu virus that killed tens of millions of people around the world is back. Scientists have reconstructed it, using pie...
Astronomers say they have some intriguing new clues about one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. More than 20 years ago, scientists discovered that most of the matter in the universe is not made up of ordinary atoms, it is something invisible...
This is Valentines Day and this morning, we have a few words about love and money. According to research from a major credit card company, the average man spends about $130 on his sweetheart. Women, spend about half that. For people who want to spend...
Now today's Unger report. The Valentine's Day clock is ticking down friends. Supplies of roses and chocolate / hearts, and restaurant reservations. All these are dwindling. And here to help with none of it ,is Brian Unger. Tomorrow is the one day of...
Critics have called King Kong, director Peter Jackson's 207 million-dollar special effects extravaganza, a triumph of digital technology. The movie's described as featuring enough dinosaurs to overrun Jurassic Park. It's been nominated for 4 Oscars:...