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Ugandan Singer Bobi Wine Releases Song About Fighting The Coronavirus

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Ugandan musician Bobi Wine has released a musical PSA called "Corona Virus Alert." Wine, whose legal name is Robert Kyagulanyi, who is also a political activist in the country.

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A Father And Son In Milwaukee Reflect On Life At Home During The Pandemic

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Rowan Cliffe and his dad, Ian, have been spending a lot of time together in Milwaukee. They talk about how the pandemic has kept them at home, using FaceTime, playing porch hockey and baking bread.

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David Quammen: How Animal-Borne Infections Spill Over To Humans

Saturday, March 28, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer David Quammen about his research into animal-to-human transmission of viruses.

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Walmart Reports Increased Sales In Tops, Not Bottoms, As More People Telework

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Walmart is selling more tops than bottoms, due to an increase in teleworking during the coronavirus pandemic. And from the waist down? Well, apparently, it's a free-for-all.

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Opinion: Missing The Shared Jokes, Small Talk, Midday Laughs Of The Office

Saturday, March 21, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon looks back on the joys of working in an office as he — and millions of Americans — are consigned to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.

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A Look At The COVID-19 Crisis From A Pharmacist's Perspective

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Twila Boyd, a pharmacist in South Charleston, Ohio, explains what it's like to treat patients in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

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In 'The Glass Hotel,' Emily St. John Mandel Asks: How Many Chances Do We Get?

Saturday, March 21, 2020

In her first novel since the hit pandemic tale Station Eleven, Mandel introduces a troubled brother and sister who get involved with a crooked hotel magnate, changing their lives in unexpected ways.

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Welsh Archivists Documents Ordinary People In Extraordinary Times

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Lisa Heledd Jones collects audio memos and journals from people around the world to record how they're living through the coronavirus crisis.

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Getting Along When You Can't Get Away: Advice For Living In Close Quarters

Saturday, March 21, 2020

With so many people staying home together right now, we talk with advice columnist Amy Dickinson about best practices for getting along when you really can't get away from each other.

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Actor Don Cheadle On Showtime's Newly-Timely 'Black Monday'

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Little did actor Don Cheadle know that markets would be falling through the floor just as he was appearing in Season Two of Showtime's Black Monday.

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Coronavirus Quashes Iran's New Year Celebrations

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Norooz, which means "new day," is meant to be a holiday of hope and celebration. But Iran has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. Foreign policy analyst Ali Ahmadi, political analyst explains.

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Don't Make Them Feel Like A Charity Project: Talking To The Elderly About Coronavirus

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Aging expert Melissa Batchelor gives advice for speaking to the elderly about coronavirus.

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Driven To The Breaking Point: 'Then The Fish Swallowed Him'

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Author Amir Ahmadi Arian talks about his new novel, a portrait of an Iranian bus driver who is arrested during a strike and tortured and forced to confess in prison.

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New York Locks Down As Coronavirus Cases Rise

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Governors in California, Illinois and several other states have also asked residents to stay at home. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang give us the latest from New York.

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Opinion: 1 Unfathomable Toll Of The Coronavirus Outbreak — Dying Alone

Saturday, March 07, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on how people who die from complications related to COVID-19 might spend their last days isolated and alone.

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As The World Struggles To Contain Coronavirus, Scientists Race To Develop Vaccine

Saturday, March 07, 2020

Scientists are racing to create a vaccine to protect people against the new strain of the coronavirus. But while researchers are making fast progress, a vaccine is probably more than a year away.

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Nadia Reid's Latest Release Is A Traveling Album Full Of Road Songs

Saturday, March 07, 2020

New Zealand musician Nadia Reid talks about how homesickness fueled the songs on her latest album, Out of My Province.

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It's National Cereal Day, Get Your Bowl And Spoon Ready

Saturday, March 07, 2020

To mark National Cereal Day, we take a look at the latest batch of cereal flavors — from candy-flavored puffs of color to ones that are supposed to taste like toaster pastries.

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Latest In Politics: What We Can Expect Next In Democratic Presidential Race

Saturday, March 07, 2020

With Super Tuesday in the rearview mirror, we look to what's to come on Big Tuesday and how the coronavirus will affect the presidential election.

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Opinion: India's Religious Violence Doesn't Meet Its Founder's Vision

Saturday, February 29, 2020

As India is facing major tensions over a new law Muslims say discriminates against them, NRP's Scott Simon notes the country's history of rich religious diversity.

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