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PRI's The World
November 21, 2016
No actual sound recordings exist of Paris from the 18th century. The technology hadn't yet been invented. So to hear what Paris sounded like back then takes a lot of research — and an imaginary leap.
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Science Friday
November 19, 2016
Pop-up books aren’t just fun to read — they’re feats of engineering and ingenuity. Here, video producer Luke Groskin goes inside the studio of pop-up book artist Matthew Reinhart.
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PRI's The World
November 17, 2016
Seun Kuti blames the rich and powerful for the social and economic inequality in the world today. And he's not surprised that a populist movement has voted someone like Donald Trump into office.
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PRI's The World
November 16, 2016
It turns out that a lot of the false news stories shared on social media before the election were generated by teenagers in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. And according to BuzzFeed News, they made a good amount of money doing it.
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PRI's The World
November 14, 2016
“I mean Finland is the first country even to suggest emojis that have some sort of a cultural connection,” says Petra Theman who's trying to get her country's emojis onto smartphones everywhere.
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What it's like to be the butt of the joke. One of the kids at the Oscars speaks out.
PRI's The World
March 02, 2016
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The precocious child star who was on stage as an "accountant" at the Oscars didn't know she'd be the butt of an anti-Asian joke when she agreed to take the part. Neither did her mom.
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Join: Are soap operas from abroad changing how Americans watch TV?
PRI's The World
February 20, 2014
Superfans and scholars discuss the telenovelas and Korean dramas that are getting Americans hooked on soap operas again.
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Here's why you should care if you don't have any black friends
The Takeaway
August 28, 2014
The conversation about events in Ferguson involves race, but maybe not in the way you think. While a new study showed that most white Americans don't have non-white friends, many people say it shouldn't be taken as an indicator of personal racism but rather large-scale issues that deserve the real attention.
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Silicon Valley gets linguistic enlightenment from India
PRI's The World
October 28, 2013
The language of tech start-ups, innovation and business deals are deeply influenced by the many Indians who live and work in Silicon Valley.
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No room for African or Indian languages in Disney’s multilingual version of 'Let It Go'
PRI's The World
January 24, 2014
Disney has released the hit song from Frozen, "Let it Go," which includes 25 different languages — most of them European and none from Africa. This follows criticism that Disney has again depicted its female lead as blue-eyed and blonde-haired.
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Why every Korean kid knows not to keep the fan on over night
PRI's The World
November 04, 2014
There's a superstition that Korean parents tell their kids: If you go to sleep with an electric fan running in your room, you might die.
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The story of how one hot sauce, Huy Fong Sriracha, got so hot
PRI's The World
October 22, 2013
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David Tran, the man who created Huy Fong Foods' Sriracha, has never advertised his hot sauce. Yet, that ubiquitous red bottle with the green cap can be seen in restaurants across the US. How'd it get so hot?
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The spread of mondegreens should have ended with the Internet — but it hasn't
The World in Words
November 20, 2014
The Internet is supposed to be killing off misheard song lyrics, but think again. Those "mondegreens" are alive and well, even on the lyrics sites that try to end the confusion.
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This blond and blue-eyed singer wows Hong Kongers with her flawless Cantopop
PRI's The World
February 03, 2014
You'd never guess that this blonde singer performs in completely fluent Cantonese. Carinna Chamberlain, aka Chan Ming Yan, has become something of a Cantopop sensation in Hong Kong.
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Fighting to put a woman on the $20 bill
The Takeaway
March 18, 2015
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It's time, one group says, to end the monopoly of men on US paper currency. President Barack Obama thinks it's about time, too.