October 15, 2013 - 8:01am
A snorkeler off the coast of California found more than she bargained for on the ocean floor Sunday, when she saw the large eyes of an 18-foot fish staring back at her. It turned out to be a dead oarfish, a mysterious creature known to live in waters thousands of...
October 15, 2013 - 7:00am
On this episode of All Songs Considered , NPR Music's Stephen Thompson stops by in his 1984 Dodge Omni to pick up hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton for a trip down Memory Lane, revisiting artists they discovered years ago. Stephen's most recent Good Listener column asked the question: "How...
October 15, 2013 - 7:00am
"I think Malala is an average girl," Ziauddin Yousafzai says about the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who captured the world's attention after being shot by the Taliban, "but there's something extraordinary about her." A teacher himself, he inspired his daughter's fight to be educated. At a special event with Malala in...
October 15, 2013 - 6:53am
If you're not in the habit of watching MTV's Catfish , which ends its second season Tuesday night with a new episode and a reunion special, you might be surprised by how many interesting questions it raises. Of course, you might be even more surprised by how blithely it ignores...
October 15, 2013 - 6:11am
Looking beyond the shutdown and debt-ceiling stalemates, CNN's John King said on TV Monday night that distrust among all parties in Washington is "deep and multi-layered." He said, "Imagine this confrontation as a dinner party: The president doesn't trust the speaker. The president doesn't have a relationship with the Senate...
October 15, 2013 - 6:07am
After lacking a permanent executive in charge of its retail arm for a year, Apple is hiring Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts as a senior vice president. She will be the first woman on Apple's team of senior executives, the company confirmed this morning. A veteran of the fashion industry, Ahrendts,...
October 15, 2013 - 6:00am
Graham Nash first came to the United States as part of the British Invasion with his band The Hollies, which got its start at the same time as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, and shared bills with both bands in England. But Nash later helped to define a kind...
October 15, 2013 - 5:44am
When Kurt Vonnegut dedicated his novel Slapstick to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, he pinpointed the way an ideal team can transcend chemistry. Like Vonnegut's Wilbur and Eliza, the twins who became geniuses only in each other's presence, Laurel and Hardy united to become two halves of a single being...
October 15, 2013 - 5:43am
The massive cyclone that hit the eastern Indian state of Orissa over the weekend destroyed tens of thousands of homes, but killed fewer than 30 people. Another big cyclone struck the same state in 1999 ; 10,000 people were killed. What was different this time? Though it's not a perfect...
October 15, 2013 - 5:27am
Good morning from Washington, D.C., your nation's capital, where we are now into Day 15 of your government's shutdown and counting down to your government's looming default on its debt. Yes, we all wish we were still in bed with the pillow over our head. (Even, we imagine, former Defense...
