Comedian Paul F. Tompkins reviews Sleep Machine, an app that lulls users into rest and relaxation with ambient sounds â from lapping waves on the beach to morning birds to the hum of a running dishwasher or fan.
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/29/179878407/sleep-machine-am-ambient-noise-app-for-your-nap
He created incentives that 11-year-olds could relate to. (Somehow, "Come to school and you’ll be better off in 20 years," just wasn’t working.)
Morning Edition’s new project, Cook Your Cupboard, invites cooks to send in photos of food items they aren’t sure how to use. In our first installment, NPR listener Marcy Misner has beans, vinegar and almond milk, and food writer Nigella Lawson gives her some guidance on where to go from there.
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/24/177830764/nigella-lawson-helps-listener-cook-her-eclectic-cupboard
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Robots and algorithms can now build cars, write articles, and translate texts — all work that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee looks at recent labor data to say: We ain’t seen nothing yet.
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/26/173000457/are-droids-taking-our-jobs
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Time is special. How we see it helps determine how we see the rest of the Universe. Physicist Lee Smolin has a new book out that says we’ve been looking at time the wrong way. Adam Frank digs in and offers his own perspective on Smolin’s argument.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/05/02/180037757/is-time-real
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Playing the famous half-Vulcan requires a little meditative depth and a lot of brow-shaving. Heroes villain Zachary Quinto plays Spock in the reboot of the Star Trek franchise, with the blessing of original Spock Leonard Nimoy. Quinto tells NPR about befriending Nimoy, shaping eyebrows and more.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/17/184829512/quinto-turns-inward-to-find-spocks-soul
The 12th film based on Gene Roddenberry’s ’60s sci-fi TV show is the second to star a new group of actors as Kirk, Spock and their crew. J.J. Abrams returns as director, and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch plays the memorable villain.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184485990/into-darkness-boldly-and-with-a-few-twists
In Mission To Mars, astronaut Buzz Aldrin lays out his plans for getting Americans on Mars by 2035.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/182313488/buzz-aldrins-case-for-a-mission-to-mars
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Researchers at the University of Reading are speculating that today’s languages share a common root dating as far back as the last Ice Age. Words like "mother," "man" and "ashes" are categorized as "ultraconserved," meaning they are survivors of a lost language from which many modern tongues are descended.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/182624059/could-you-talk-to-a-caveman-researchers-say-yes
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The legendary Hollywood FX man died Tuesday at age 92. Known for creating the monsters in such films as Mighty Joe Young and Jason and the Argonauts, Harryhausen spoke with Fresh Air in 2003 about studying animals in nature to create the monsters of our imaginations.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/181947528/remembering-monster-maker-ray-harryhausen
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