Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians.
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Hearing loss is a direct link to dementia. Easier access to hearing aids could help
Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Frank Lin of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about the link between hearing loss and dementia, and how over-the-counter hearing aids may help.
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New York art museums must now disclose if a piece was stolen by Nazis
Ayesha Rascoe talks with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Andrea Bayer about a new New York law requiring museums to acknowledge if a work of art was stolen by the Nazi regime.
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The Inflation Reduction Act incentivizes capturing carbon emissions
President Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. We take a look at the viability of the law's provision concerning capturing carbon emissions.
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Books We Love: Recommended reading for romance
NPR's Books We Love has reading recommendations from our staff and contributors. Today, we hear about three new romance novels: "An Arrow to the Moon," "Young Mungo" and "Ramon and Julieta."
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Climate change and war are felt everywhere — including the Dijon mustard industry
France is working to recover from a shortage of a key element in French cuisine: Dijon mustard.
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A sustainable seafood alternative: lab-grown fish sticks
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Bluu Seafood COO Chris Dammann about the company's new cultivated cell fish products - fish sticks and fish balls.
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Under Taliban guard, Afghanistan's national museum has reopened
The Taliban now guard Afghanistan's national museum. The group has a poor record of preserving cultural artifacts and parts of the museum's collection are no longer on display.
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Death row inmate Richard Glossip facing fourth execution date
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Oklahoma state Rep. Kevin McDugle why he thinks death row inmate Richard Glossip is innocent and deserves a new trial.
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Watergate changed the rules surrounding presidential records
Until 1974, presidents could take documents with them when they left office. Now every presidential document, from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans, belongs to the National Archives.
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To 'Free Chol Soo Lee,' Asian Americans had to find their collective political voice
NPR's Alina Selyukh talks with Julie Ha, co-director of the documentary "Free Chol Soo Lee," about a Korean-American man's arrest for a murder he did not commit, and the effort to help him.
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Authors worry about the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
As one of the largest antitrust trials to hit the publishing industry continues, how might the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster impact the book industry and readers?
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Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva went from jail to frontrunner
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former Brazilian president and an icon of the Latin American left, is out of jail and leading Brazil's race for the presidency.