The Latest Technology When will quantum computing deliver on its promise? Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems. Katia Riddle History The day the guns fell silent In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day. Ari Shapiro Arts & Life A neighbor's Christmas gift that keeps on giving In the days leading up to Christmas 2018, the Williams family were told that their neighbor had passed away. He left behind a sack of 14 gifts for Cadi Williams to be opened each year on Christmas. John Ketchum Movies 'The Friend' stars Naomi Watts and a giant dog — trained by Bill Berloni The Friend tells a story of two creatures who lose someone they love and find each other. She's a writer. He's… a dog. Naomi Watts gets top billing, but her screen partner is also a star. Diane Orson Science Experts met to discuss the ethics of using organoids in research Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self. Jon Hamilton Science This week in science: Swearing, bird bills and the pandemic, and whale breath samples Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath. Emily Kwong Bethlehem celebrates Christmas for the first time since the war in Gaza began Encouraged by a ceasefire brokered between Israel and Hamas in October, Bethlehem brought back its annual Christmas celebrations. Hadeel Al-Shalchi Producer Picks: Tactile Basketball, Costco, Cougar Gold, and the Grand Illusion Cinema Soundside's Producer Picks for this Christmas Eve look at a number of local businesses here in the Pacific Northwest ! Hans Anderson World The pope urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering During his first Christmas Day message, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the suffering in Gaza, Yemen and among migrants, and called for peace in troubled regions like Lebanon, Ukraine and Syria. The Associated Press Health How ADHD drugs work to indirectly improve attention New research suggests that prescription stimulants for ADHD don't actually improve attention directly. They work on different pathways in the brain that support attention. . Prev 289 of 1646 Next Sponsored
Technology When will quantum computing deliver on its promise? Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems. Katia Riddle
History The day the guns fell silent In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day. Ari Shapiro
Arts & Life A neighbor's Christmas gift that keeps on giving In the days leading up to Christmas 2018, the Williams family were told that their neighbor had passed away. He left behind a sack of 14 gifts for Cadi Williams to be opened each year on Christmas. John Ketchum
Movies 'The Friend' stars Naomi Watts and a giant dog — trained by Bill Berloni The Friend tells a story of two creatures who lose someone they love and find each other. She's a writer. He's… a dog. Naomi Watts gets top billing, but her screen partner is also a star. Diane Orson
Science Experts met to discuss the ethics of using organoids in research Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self. Jon Hamilton
Science This week in science: Swearing, bird bills and the pandemic, and whale breath samples Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath. Emily Kwong
Bethlehem celebrates Christmas for the first time since the war in Gaza began Encouraged by a ceasefire brokered between Israel and Hamas in October, Bethlehem brought back its annual Christmas celebrations. Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Producer Picks: Tactile Basketball, Costco, Cougar Gold, and the Grand Illusion Cinema Soundside's Producer Picks for this Christmas Eve look at a number of local businesses here in the Pacific Northwest ! Hans Anderson
World The pope urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering During his first Christmas Day message, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the suffering in Gaza, Yemen and among migrants, and called for peace in troubled regions like Lebanon, Ukraine and Syria. The Associated Press
Health How ADHD drugs work to indirectly improve attention New research suggests that prescription stimulants for ADHD don't actually improve attention directly. They work on different pathways in the brain that support attention. .