Surviving climate threats demands adaptation. In Bangladesh, an engineer and a housewife improvised their own early warning system for historic floods. And villagers in Pakistan are revisiting an old tradition of growing their own glaciers.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back? | 2023 In Review
While the What Next team spends some time with their families this week, we revisit some of 2023’s biggest, strangest, and best stories. Regularly scheduled programming resumes Jan. 2.
Everybody loves pandas—and China knows it. As we say goodbye to the National Zoo’s pandas, we look back at 50 years of “panda diplomacy” and consider its uncertain future.
Guest: E. Elena Songster, author of Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon and professor of environmental history of modern China at St. Mary’s College of California.
Originally aired Sept. 27.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Fundamentals of International Trade They Don’t Want You to Know
Trade is a positive-sum game, and when you keep a few fundamentals of trade front and center, it becomes harder for politicians to confuse the issue. Economist Andreas Freytag explains.
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Pod Save America - Intentions for 2024 with Sam Sanders (Exclusive Clip)
We're taking a much needed break to gear up for 2024, but we're excited to share an exclusive clip from Friend Of The Pod Sam Sanders' weekly podcast Vibe Check. Each week on Vibe Check, Sam, Saeed Jones, and Zach Stafford make sense of what’s going on in news and culture – and how it all feels.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Marcela Valladolid’s cookbook ‘Familia’ celebrates community and her Mexican roots
Chef and Food Network personality Marcela Valladolid combines her joy of cooking, appreciation of community, and love of Mexican cuisine in her new cookbook Familia: 125 Foolproof Mexican Recipes to Feed Your People. In today's episode, Valladolid speaks with Here and Now's Deepa Fernandes about the online cooking class she and her sister started during the pandemic. This pandemic cooking class offered a way to connect with others and a way to show appreciation of her Mexican roots, which inspired Valladolid to write Familia.
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Read Me a Poem - “Envoy” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Amanda Holmes reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Envoy.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Mortgage Company Hacked, Operation Prosperity Guardian, Dolphin with ‘Thumbs’
Mortgage company Mr. Cooper goes public with a cyber attack that compromised millions of customers' personal data. Scientists in the Mediterranean spot a dolphin that appears to have 'thumbs' - possibly atavistic traits prompting a conversation about evolution and pollution. As instability mounts in the Red Sea, the US military announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, an international initiative to combat attacks on shipping vessels. The operation has already drawn controversy as several involved countries asked not to be named -- and critics wonder whether this represents an escalation into widespread war across an already unstable region. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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It's the stuff of legend. In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent.
That simple act of humanity in the midst of war has inspired operas, movies, and even television commercials.
NPR's Ari Shapiro highlights the many ways in which this incredible event inspired generations of artists, and brings you the voices of the soldiers themselves, who were on the frontlines that day.
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That simple act of humanity in the midst of war has inspired operas, movies, and even television commercials.
NPR's Ari Shapiro highlights the many ways in which this incredible event inspired generations of artists, and brings you the voices of the soldiers themselves, who were on the frontlines that day.
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Consider This from NPR - The Day the Guns Fell Silent
It's the stuff of legend. In the months after World War I erupted, young men in Europe were killing each other by the tens of thousands. Yet on a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914, the guns briefly fell silent.
That simple act of humanity in the midst of war has inspired operas, movies, and even television commercials.
NPR's Ari Shapiro highlights the many ways in which this incredible event inspired generations of artists, and brings you the voices of the soldiers themselves, who were on the frontlines that day.
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That simple act of humanity in the midst of war has inspired operas, movies, and even television commercials.
NPR's Ari Shapiro highlights the many ways in which this incredible event inspired generations of artists, and brings you the voices of the soldiers themselves, who were on the frontlines that day.
Email us at considerthis@npr.org
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Focus on Africa - Is it a good Christmas for Ghana’s cocoa farmers?
The price of chocolate has risen, that's as the cost of cocoa rises. After the Ivory Coast, Ghana is one of the world's largest producers of cocoa. We'll look at the importance of ethical cocoa production and ask if local farmers benefit or not?
Also, as the cost of living crisis continues to bite in many parts of Africa, how can households make the most of the festive season, despite the squeeze on their budgets?
And the Nigerian chef and world record breaker Hilda Baci, shares her Christmas day menu!