Rahul Mehrotra: How Can Impermanent Cities Permanently Change Our World? Every twelve years, 100 million people descend upon a temporary city built for the Kumbh Mela festival in India. Architect Rahul Mehrotra says other cities can learn from this ephemeral megacity. NPR/TED Staff
Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How Can We Better Design Cities To Fight Floods? Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom designed a way to offset flooding in Bangkok by designing a park with underground tanks. She says her design can protect delta cities that are sinking. NPR/TED Staff
Marwa Al-Sabouni: How Can The Architecture Of A City Play A Role In War? Architect Marwa Al-Sabouni says French colonial design segregated Syria's cities and laid the groundwork for division and civil war. The future of the country may depend on how it decides to rebuild. NPR/TED Staff
"Daddy Dressed Me" Founder On Teaching Himself To Sew For His Daughter Michael Gardner was looking for a creative way to bond with his daughter, Ava. 200 outfits later, his project has become a campaign encouraging dads to bond with their kids through fashion.
After a tense election, ten strangers come together for a nerdy dinner party KUOW's 4th cohort of Curiosity Club will reflect on the last four years and imagine what's next for 2021. Kristin Leong
'Among Us,' It's Every Little Space Sausage For Themselves The social deduction game. where you play a froup of funny-shaped little spaceman trying to uncover murderous impostors among you, originally came out in 2018 — but it's having a real moment now. Jason Sheehan
Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe's 'One Life' Is Mostly A Call To Action Rapinoe's book traces her own political awakening in the hopes that other people will follow in her footsteps and understand that they have an imperative to speak out about injustice in the world. Britni de la Cretaz
What Is The End Of An Era? 'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Dies At 80 "I love spending time with bright people," said the longtime game show host. Trebek began hosting the trivia show in 1984 and continued for nearly four decades, even through bouts of chemotherapy. Mandalit del Barco
Johnny Depp Exits 'Fantastic Beasts' Days After Losing Libel Case The actor said Friday that Warner Bros. asked him to resign after he lost a libel suit in the U.K. earlier this week. As a result, he studio has pushed back the third film in the series to 2022. Anastasia Tsioulcas
We Talk 'Queen's Gambit' With Chess Expert And Tiny Desk Winner Linda Diaz Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit. Linda Holmes