Yasmin Green: How Did The Internet Become A Platform For Hate Groups?
Extremist groups have co-opted the Internet’s connective power to recruit members. Yasmin Green explores how the Internet has allowed extremism to spread, and how technology can combat it.
How A Dog Could Stop The Global Spread Of Disease
One scientist is training the ultimate disease watchdogs — canines that can smell malaria parasites living inside a person’s blood.
Palau, In Western Pacific, Is First Nation To Ban ‘Reef-Toxic’ Sunscreens
The bio-diverse country says it has a responsibility to conserve its reefs. However, researchers say there are more effective and less toxic sunscreens available.
France’s Jewish Community Deeply Shaken Over Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Jews in France, who have seen their own community subjected to murderous attacks, have reacted with horror and sympathy to Saturday’s deadly shooting in Pittsburgh.
Environmental Policies Of Brazil’s New President Jair Bolsonaro Alarming Scientists
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with environmental educator and researcher Suzana Padua about how the election of Brazil’s new president Jair Bolsonaro may threaten the country’s conservation efforts.
In Tennessee Senate race, a clear test of centrism vs. ideology
To watch Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen deliver a stump speech before a lunchtime Tennessee crowd, is to wonder whether one is looking at a future where US senators rediscover congeniality and bipartisanship – or at the past, at a throwback …
Peace waves in East Africa
Abiy Ahmed, the new prime minister of Ethiopia with a PhD in conflict resolution, certainly believes so. In the six months since he took office as Africa’s youngest leader, Dr. Abiy has not only transformed the often-violent ethnic tensions of his own…
Immigrating To The U.S.? Get Ready For A New Gut Microbiome (And Maybe More Pounds)
Hmong immigrants began losing native bacteria in their guts soon after arriving in the U.S., a change linked to more obesity. Eating an American diet plays a role but doesn’t explain everything.
Between migrants and US border, an information gap of many miles
Carlos Palacio, a lanky mechanic in his early 20s, sits on a piece of cardboard on the edge of this Oaxacan town square, hiding from the sun. “Schools are easy recruitment centers for gangs,” he says of his main drive for leaving the mountainous capit…
U.S. Calls For Yemen Cease-Fire
NPR’s Rachel Martin speaks with The Intercept reporter, Iona Craig, who’s been covering Yemen for eight years. Craig says peace talks in a major shift in U.S. policy and a cease-fire aren’t likely.
Raqqa: View From The Ground
Just over a year ago, ISIS was pushed out of the Syrian city of Raqqa. Now residents are trying to recover from a brutal military campaign which included house to house fighting and U.S. bombs.
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