To Some Hindus, Modern Yoga Has Lost Its Way
About 20 million people in the United States practice some form of yoga, from the formal Iyengar and Ashtanga schools to the more irreverent "Yoga Butt."But some Hindus say yoga is about far more than...
View ArticleMy '70s Show — Remembering 'Ecotopia' Author Ernest Callenbach
There was news this week that Ernest "Chick" Callenbach had died. His 1975 cult-classic, Ecotopia, was beloved by environmentalists and science fiction fans. Originally self-published, it went on to...
View Article'Scream' Still Echoes After More Than A Century
It's perhaps the most reproduced piece of art ever created. It has adorned key chains and coffee mugs, and the cover of Time magazine. Andy Warhol used it, and now one of the four versions of The...
View ArticleThese Apps Are Going To The Birds — And People Who Watch Them
I'm standing in the Manhattan office of Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate at Cornell University's ornithology lab. Farnsworth is using meteorological data, radar data, crowd-sourced eBird data...
View ArticleMonet's Green Thumb: How Art Grew From A Garden
Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, draws half a million visitors a year, but for the next several months, you won't have to travel farther than the Bronx to get a taste of the artist's green thumb.
View ArticleLoud Debate Rages Over N.Y. Library's Quiet Stacks
Enter the glorious Rose Reading Room on the third floor of the New York Public Library on a weekday afternoon, and you'll find almost every chair filled.Scholars and researchers still submit their book...
View Article'Witches' Sequel Casts A Complex Spell
The first book in the All Souls trilogy, A Discovery of Witches, was a tour de force, an artful and unusually skilled blending of hard science, history and the supernatural. Deborah Harkness, a...
View ArticleThousands Line Up For Rare Rowling Appearance
While much of America was watching the second presidential debate, about 2,000 people — many of them between the ages of 20 and 40 — were doing something very different. They had gotten a rare and...
View ArticleParts Of Manhattan Go Dark As Sandy Rolls Through
New York City has seen some of the worst damage from Sandy. Large parts of Manhattan were without power on Monday night, a building crane was knocked loose, and there were reports of flooding in the...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Woke Up To Strangely Quiet City
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: I'm Audie Cornish. And we begin this hour with Sandy by the numbers.
View ArticleIn Sandy's Wake, New Yorkers Don't Sweat Small Stuff
NPR's Margot Adler is covering the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in New York.I walked out of my apartment at 5 this morning in a part of Manhattan -– the Upper West Side — that never lost power. Still,...
View ArticleThousands Of Trees Gone, Ripped Out By Sandy
New York City lost almost 10,000 trees from the winds of Superstorm Sandy and the nor'easter that followed. That's far more trees lost in the city than in any other storm for which tree damage was...
View ArticleN.Y. Fast-Food Workers Strike For Better Wages
Fast-food workers staged protests Thursday at restaurants in New York. The workers said their low wages need to be raised. But with the economy still slow, restaurant managers are determined to hold...
View ArticleMystery On Fifth Avenue: A Constant Line Outside Abercrombie & Fitch
Every day I walk down Fifth Avenue on my way to work. I pass glittering holiday store windows, the Salvation Army ringing its bells and the sparkling tree at Rockefeller Center.But for months I've...
View ArticlePost-Sandy, Newly Unemployed Struggle To Stay Afloat
Hurricane Sandy's effect on the nation's unemployment figures was less pronounced than expected. The reasons are complex, but one thing is clear: Thousands of victims are still struggling to rebuild...
View ArticleLetters From 'Peanuts' Creator Reveal Bittersweet Romance
On Friday, Sotheby's is putting up for auction 44 letters and 35 drawings from Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, to a young woman he was courting.The letters were written during an eight-month...
View ArticleFree Toy Shop Brings Cheer To Sandy's Displaced Families
The New York borough of Staten Island was hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy. Almost two months after the storm hit, many residents will not be back in their homes by the Christmas holiday.One organization is...
View ArticlePulling Together, Newtown Celebrates Holiday 'As Best We Can'
The days leading up to Christmas are typically bustling in Newtown, Conn. But given the depth of grief in this community since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, preparations for the...
View ArticleU.N. Agency Watches Out For Domestic Workers
The International Labor Organization, the U.N. agency that deals with labor issues, has released a report on the growing number of domestic workers around the globe, and their lack of legal and worker...
View ArticleIn Lower Manhattan, Sandy Still Keeping Businesses Dark
When compared with its neighbors Coney Island and the Rockaways, Manhattan seemed hardly touched by the waters and winds of Superstorm Sandy in late October. But almost three months later, areas of...
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