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Attention: Your Picture Books Have Been Upgraded

by Sarah Brockman on Dec 1, 2011 • 7 Comments

Photo by sickmouthy via Flickr. I have a confession to make: I really haven’t read a lot of comics. Or graphic novels. Or manga. I know, I’m a terrible nerd (hey, Wil Wheaton didn’t start reading George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series until recently, so I’m not...

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Slugging Along

by Quinn Ford on Nov 11, 2011 • 2 Comments

Slugging Along – NPR Fall 2011 Intern Edition by NPR Fall 2011 IE Around five o’clock on a Wednesday, a steady stream of people head from the Pentagon building to the parking lot a few hundred yards away. Lines begin to form along the curb. Dozens of people wait patiently...

Culture

A New Kind of Conversation

by Traci G. Lee on Oct 31, 2011 • 1 Comment

In an age where text messages and tweets have replaced face-to-face conversations, there is a growing movement to reinvent traditional forms of communication. The days of letters, postcards and locker notes have faded as social media websites like Facebook and tools like Gchat have become the more popular option. With...

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news & politics / Washington Desk

Latest GOP Campaign Ads Unite in Fresh Attacks on Obama and Republican Rivals

by Liz Weiss Dec 14, 2011

Republican hopefuls may offer juxtaposed views on foreign policy, immigration, and tax reform, but there is one stance the GOP contenders have collectively shared throughout the race: Barack Obama must not be reelected for a second term. Now, with less than a year until Election Day, the GOP candidates are waging an advertising war heavily...

Culture / The Dungeon Primer

A Nerd’s Farewell

by Sarah Brockman Dec 20, 2011

For the past three months, you read about a different aspect of nerd culture each week: from games to comic books and web series, you glimpsed a sliver of the immense world known as nerd...

For the past three months, you read about a different aspect of nerd culture each week: from games to comic books and web series, you glimpsed a sliver of the immense world known as nerd culture. And hopefully, through it all, you learned that though nerds may be hard to understand at first glance, really...

Deskless Concert Series / Music

Deskless Concert: Justin Jones

by Clare Flynn Dec 23, 2011

This is it, the very last episode of Intern Edition’s short, but well-received Deskless Concert Series. We wish it weren’t so, but alas, our time at NPR is coming to a close. Our very last...

This is it, the very last episode of Intern Edition’s short, but well-received Deskless Concert Series. We wish it weren’t so, but alas, our time at NPR is coming to a close. Our very last guest was local Washington D.C. musician Justin Jones. Multimedia intern/Deskless Concert videographer extraordinaire Mallory Benedict and I first saw Jones...

Intern Life / Nine to Five

Tiny Haiku: Final Reflection

by Sophie Adelman Dec 20, 2011

If Calvin Trillin Can make a career out of Brevity, can I?

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What’s All the PHOs About?

by Caitlin Dickerson Dec 6, 2011

Have you already found yourself searching out hot steaming liquids to escape winter’s chill and return you to tepidity? If so, keep an eye out for a trendy hot Vietnamese soup with a quirky name...

Have you already found yourself searching out hot steaming liquids to escape winter’s chill and return you to tepidity? If so, keep an eye out for a trendy hot Vietnamese soup with a quirky name that might just replace traditional cold-cures like hot chocolate and chicken noodle soup this year. A lovely bowl of tofu...

Generation "Why?" / On the Record

Another Introduction

by Traci G. Lee Dec 20, 2011

We’ve come a long way since Arine’s story about a woman and her watch, and there was enthusiasm and passion in Andrew’s punk rock profile. The Clare and Kwasi’s “Amateur (1/2) Hour” podcasts introduced us to new music in new ways. We got to experience new ways of traveling as Eric couchsurfed. We learned a...