The 10 Best Tiny Desk Concerts of 2024 - The Public's Radio
Dec 21, 2024 · LaRussell: Tiny Desk Concert. LaRussell proved that some of the best performances come from musicians that have fun doing what they do best. This was an uplifting, energetic and genuine concert filled with laughs, contagious smiles and a few Smeeze dances sprinkled in for good measure. The rapper was unapologetically himself — an eccentric experience for the Tiny Desk, but business as usual ...
A pair of satellites will create artificial solar eclipses to study the ...
Dec 21, 2024 · NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission once again as it wraps up heat shield investigation. The mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners
Dec 23, 2024 · President Biden speaks during a reception in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 16. (Jim Watson | AFP via Getty Images) President Biden used his clemency authority Monday to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole, in one of the most significant moves taken against …
How sweet! A daily dose of dark chocolate may cut your risk of …
Dec 5, 2024 · There’s long been evidence that the compounds found in cocoa can contribute to heart health. For instance, a study published in the journal Heart, found chocolate lovers had a lower risk of strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease.. Scientists have homed in on bioactive plant compounds found in cocoa beans, called flavanols, which have been shown to prompt production of nitric oxide ...
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu …
Dec 20, 2024 · An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
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Jul 16, 2024 · As South County Hospital continues to lose money and clinicians, a group of doctors, donors, community members and former trustees say it’s time for the hospital to hire a new CEO and pursue a long-term affiliation with a larger health system.
Unfunded and unenforced environmental laws, cyber attack …
Dec 20, 2024 · A week after the state announced a massive security breach at Rhode Island’s online portal for health and public benefit programs, a lot of questions remain about who’s responsible and what happens next. We’ll hear from Jim Langevin, the head of the cybersecurity program at Rhode Island College. And a new investigation from ecoRI News found that Rhode Island has many environmental laws ...
Notre Dame organist returns for the cathedral’s grand reopening
Dec 7, 2024 · Olivier Latry was the last person to play Notre Dame’s great instrument, on Palm Sunday 2019, the day before the fire. Latry is the cathedral’s longest-serving organist, and when the position opened up he applied for it on a lark.
How casting makes this ‘Gypsy’ hit different - The Public's Radio
Dec 21, 2024 · Audra McDonald and Joy Woods in Gypsy (Photo: Julieta Cervantes | Gypsy). Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time, by critics and historians. Its central character, Mama Rose, is the ultimate stage mother and has been catnip for some of the finest musical theater actresses for generations; from Ethel Merman, the 1959 original, to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, Bette ...
How the Democrats lost their grip on Fall River
Nov 20, 2024 · For a long time, the glue that held together the various constituencies of Fall River politics was the Democratic ward committee. The city’s nine ward committees were little outposts of the party with a presence in every neighborhood of Fall River. Each committee had up to 35 members elected from the surrounding neighborhood, many of […]