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  • 'Renaissance Garden' Highlights Medicinal Plants
    This summer, the New York Botanical Garden is featuring an exhibit called Wild Medicine: Healing Plants around the World. The most beautiful and interesting part is a small scale recreation of the 16th century Italian Renaissance Garden at Padua, the site of one of the earliest and most important medical schools. (This piece originally aired on Weekend Edition on July 6, 2013.)
  • A Libyan youth displays his skills in parkour, an extreme sport, during a friendly competition in Tripoli on March 7, 2014.
    Parkour May Run, Flip, Dive And Slide Its Way Into Olympics
    Some leaders of this extreme city sport where people run, jump and slide on streets and over buildings, hope to slip into the games by courting the International Olympic Committee.
  • Teachers Line Up for Vaccine, TCC Opens for All Clients
    Alaska’s teachers can sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations starting at noon today (Thursday).The state is opening to a much broader group of Alaskans today…
  • Does Netflix's 'The Circle' Count As An Epistolary Drama?
    Contestants on the new social-media-based reality show, The Circle, never meet in person. Their online profiles may not be what they seem — reminding us of a certain kind of literary drama.
  • Coronavirus Concerns Weigh On Chinese Students At U.S. Colleges
    Nearly 6,000 students from China attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The spreading coronavirus is further isolating and complicating the lives of international students.
  • 60 Documented COVID-19 Cases is Highest One-Day Count
    32 Fairbanks residents tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and Thursday. In this press release from the Alaska Department of Health and Social…
  • The latest inflation data offers a snapshot of Americans' new pandemic spending habits. Prices are down for most goods and services but up sharply for groceries.
    We're Eating At Home And It's Costing Us More
    The latest inflation data offers a snapshot of Americans' new pandemic spending habits. Prices are down for most goods and services but up sharply for groceries.
  • The day after their neighborhood was flooded, the Hardys returned to their house to start bagging up the garbage. The contents of the fridge were spread all over the kitchen floor and even outside. There were sausages in the street. The kitchen floor was a mess of muddy puddles.
    Superstorm Sandy Brings One Family Closer
    The Hardy family goes back generations in a tiny neighborhood called Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn. For them, Superstorm Sandy has created an extended family reunion. Not only is their small, barely livable home bursting with family members — the storm brought an emotional change, as well.
  • FBI Agent: 'Nightmare Is Over' For Kidnapped Women
    Authorities in Cleveland are providing new details on the conclusion of a decadelong kidnapping case. Three women who went missing between 2000 and 2003 were discovered alive in a home last night, and three brothers have been arrested. Steve Inskeep talks with Brian Bull from member station WCPN in Cleveland.
  • Eva Creek Operational; GVEA Proposes Rate Hike to Pay for New Wind Farm
    Golden Valley Electric Association’s $90 million wind farm near Healy is finally fully up and running. And GVEA ratepayers will start paying off the tab…
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