Attention: Your Picture Books Have Been Upgraded

Attention: Your Picture Books Have Been Upgraded

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...
Slugging Along

Slugging Along

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...
A New Kind of Conversation

A New Kind of Conversation

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

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

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...
A Nerd's Farewell

A Nerd’s Farewell

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: Justin Jones

Deskless Concert: Justin Jones

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...
Tiny Haiku: Final Reflection

Tiny Haiku: Final Reflection

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

What’s All the PHOs About?

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...

Another Introduction

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...
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