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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

The Tinkering Together Podcast is a three-part audio series for educators and caregivers, hosted by author and NPR education correspondent Anya Kamenetz. It explores tinkering pedagogy in the early childhood classroom and the impact on STEAM learning.

Amelia was still a baby when her mother, Wendy, first noticed signs of what became an undiagnosable degeneration. 12 years later, Wendy contends with her personal grief, the meaning of family, and a constantly ticking clock. Lead Producer of this episode for No Short Answers.

We speak to an uncle in Chinatown, a theater actor, and a groom-to-be in Singapore to hear how they've been figuring things out amidst a global pandemic and shifting regulations. Produced the third segment about a married couple navigating COVID restrictions for No Short Answers.

This spooky Halloween episode explores the mysterious incident of mass hysteria that broke out at a General Electric factory in Singapore in 1973 and what it tells us about spiritual possession, mental states, and labour conditions post-independence. There’s nothing scarier than working overtime. Lead Producer of this episode for No Short Answers.

If you’ve ever lost someone, or watched a medical drama in the last 15 years, you’ve probably heard of The Five Stages of Grief. They’re sort of the world’s worst consolation prize for loss. But last year, we began wondering… Where did these stages come from in the first place?

Turns out, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. But the story is much, much more complicated than that. Those stages of grieving? They actually started as stages of dying. After learning that, producer Rachael Cusick tumbled into a year-long journey through the life and work of the incredibly complicated and misunderstood woman who single-handedly changed the way all of us face dying, and the way we deal with being left behind.

This episode was reported and produced by Rachael Cusick, with production help from Carin Leong.

Doctor-reporter Avir Mitra follows the epic and fantastical journey of a molecule dug out of a distant patch of dirt that would go on to make billions of dollars, prolong millions of lives, and teach us something fundamental we didn’t know about ourselves. Along the way, he meets a geriatric mouse named Ike, an immigrant dad who’s a little bit cool sometimes, a prophetic dream that prompts a thousand-mile journey, an ice cream container that may or may not be an accessory to international drug smuggling, and - most important of all - an obscure protein that’s calling the shots in every one of your cells RIGHT NOW.

Production help from Carin Leong.

A sound portrait of Dusty Rhodes, a street saxophonist in New York City. We met one rainy evening in Washington Square Park and got talking about music and life. Recorded on Wall Street, October 2016. Made for Sound Image Fall 2016, Florence Barrau-Adams, Tisch School of the Arts.

Thoughts about studying abroad documented through interviews with students in New York, London and Singapore. Made for Sound Image Fall 2016, Florence Barrau-Adams, Tisch School of the Arts.