All Things Considered Weekend
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Missed All Things Considered this weekend? Don't sweat it! While you were out enjoying your weekend, the team was putting together a killer set of Saturday and Sunday shows. Here's the best of what you might've missed, from in-depth cover stories to quirky science, from thought-provoking author interviews to rockin' performance chats.
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Before it was a state, Colorado was part of Mexico. Evidence of its Mexican roots aren't always obvious unless one knows where to look.
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A San Francisco man has a new spin on surveillance technology. He uses a solar-powered android phone running the song identifier app Shazam to listen and record the music passersby are listening to.
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In swing states like Georgia, growing numbers of South Asians could make a difference this election. So how do they feel about the woman some call "Lotus POTUS?" -
Raneem Hijazi was eight months pregnant when an Israeli airstrike hit the apartment where she lived, killing her son and seven family members. She delivered her daughter via C-section shortly after.
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Ants have farmed fungi for 66 million years, according to new work in the journal Science. It's a relationship that flourished after the demise of the dinosaurs, says Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian.
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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to University of Toronto's Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University's John Hopfield for their work on artificial intelligence.
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Major Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida's Gulf Coast and expected to make landfall on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm's arrival.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.
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The ATF classifies the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act, but kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, asserting that the ATF had exceeded its authority. -
More young people are attracted to musical theater because of popular shows like “Hamilton” and “Hadestown.” Students who want to be part of the performances may turn to a vocal coach for help.
