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News Articles: Morning Edition

Inside RollerCade in the 1970s

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  • Arts & Life

Rooted in Motown, Detroit style skating rolls on into the next generation

Social media has fueled a roller resurgence and brought many new skaters into the city's longstanding Black skate community. Detroit style moves may be decades old, but they evolve over time.

December 29, 2022
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By:
  • Naina Rao
Humans have an elegant and intricate system of internal processes that help our bodies keep time, with exposure to sunlight, caffeine and meal timing all playing a role. But that doesn't account for "precision waking."

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  • Health

I usually wake up just ahead of my alarm. What's up with that?

Call it "precision waking" — the alleged ability to decide when you want to wake up and then doing so, without an alarm. If you think you can do it, you're not alone, though how is still mysterious.

December 29, 2022
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  • Will Stone
GPB  NPR

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  • Music News

Lyrics from 'Me Porto Bonito' by Bad Bunny will stay with you

We asked Anamaria Sayre of NPR's Latin music podcast Alt.Latino: Was there a lyric from 2022 that stayed with you all year? She chose a line from Bad Bunny's "Me Porto Bonito."

December 28, 2022
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  • Anamaria Artemisa Sayre

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  • Author Interviews

Banned Books: Author Jerry Craft on telling stories all kids can identify with

Jerry Craft published the Newbury award-winning graphic novel New Kid in 2019. The novel focuses on the experience of being Black and the "new kid" at a predominantly white school.

December 28, 2022
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By:
  • Pilar Galvan,
  • Reena Advani,
  • and 1 more
A group of glassfrogs sleeping together upside down on a leaf, showing their camouflage.

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  • Science

The astonishing vanishing act of the glassfrog, revealed

A kind of transparent frog achieves near invisibility by hiding its red blood cells during the day, scientists found. "I had never seen anything like that," researcher Carlos Taboada says.

December 27, 2022
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  • Ari Daniel
GPB  NPR

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  • Asia

Apple, accused of supporting China's censorship, is now facing new criticism

Protesters say Apple has kept tools that help circumvent censorship in China off its App store inside the country. Now it has to contend with pressure from Chinese citizens who aren't happy about it.

December 26, 2022
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Children ride scooters past a house for sale in Los Angeles. Home sales have slowed as mortgage rates have climbed.

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  • Business

2022 marked the end of cheap mortgages and now the housing market has turned icy cold

The buying frenzy of a year ago is long gone. Home buyers have pulled away, sellers are holding back, and the whole housing market is locked in a deep freeze.

December 26, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani
Supreme Court justices have spent longer this term on arguments than in past terms.

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  • Law

The case of the Supreme Court that just can't seem to stop talking

For decades, advocates knew that when their allotted time had expired, they were done. Not so anymore.

December 26, 2022
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  • Nina Totenberg
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  • Animals

Can dogs smell time? Just ask Donut the dog

After decades of wondering, an NPR reporter finally figures out how her husband's family dog knew when the school bus would arrive every day. She did some digging — and now it all makes scents.

December 23, 2022
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
David Sedaris recounts tales from his time as a department store elf in <em>Santaland Diaries.</em>

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  • Arts & Life

David Sedaris reads from 'Santaland Diaries,' a Christmastime classic

Sedaris' darkly funny account of his stint as a Macy's department store Christmas elf named Crumpet has been a hallmark of the Morning Edition airwaves for 30 holiday seasons.

December 23, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • Barry Gordemer,
  • and 1 more
A girl poses for a portrait in a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Baidoa, Somalia, on Dec. 14. As people flee their homes because of drought, famine and fighting, camps have sprung up this year around the Somali capital and other cities.

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  • Global Health

This is what displaced Somalians want you to know about their humanitarian crisis

Dusty camps of displaced people have sprung up on the outskirts of cities. They ran from their homes because of drought, famine and fighting that involves the militant group al-Shabaab.

December 23, 2022
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  • Jason Beaubien
When women get a blood test during pregnancy that looks at free-floating DNA, they expect it to tell about the health of the fetus. But the test sometimes finds signs of cancer in the mother.

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  • Health

A new kind of blood test can screen for many cancers — as some pregnant people learn

Testing pregnant people's blood to look at free-floating DNA can tell doctors about the health of the fetus. But these tests sometime turn up DNA that might be shed by cancerous cells.

December 23, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, center, is escorted from the Magistrate Court in Nassau, Bahamas, Wednesday, Dec. 21, after agreeing to be extradited to the U.S.

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  • Business

Sam Bankman-Fried to be released on $250 million bail into parents' custody

The founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX appeared in court after being extradited from the Bahamas. He's charged with alleged fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and illegal campaign contributions.

December 22, 2022
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By:
  • David Gura
A volunteer carries a cardboard cutout of mountain lion P-22 during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills, Calif., in April.

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  • Animals

The legacy of Hollywood mountain lion P-22 lives on in wildlife conservation efforts

Beloved Hollywood mountain lion P-22 was euthanized over the weekend due to health issues. His story highlights both the plight of urban wildlife and groundbreaking efforts to protect it.

December 22, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
In 2021, the three leading causes of death were heart disease, cancer and COVID-19.

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  • Health

American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.

December 22, 2022
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
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