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Lifestyle


Legos have been reliably popular holiday gifts. But fans will have to wait for this 7,500-piece Millennium Falcon. It's sold out, and even when in stock, currently only available to VIP customers.
(Jim van Gulk/Lego)
NPR
Home & Family
Kids

What’s $800 and already sold out? This Lego Star Wars ship

It made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. But a new buildable version of Han Solo's famous Millennium Falcon is currently stalled.

8 years ago

(Katherine Streeter for NPR)
NPR
Home & Family

Adult siblings can make our lives healthier and happier

Two-thirds of people in one large study said a brother or sister was one of their best friends.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Books
Business

‘Wonderland’ / ‘The Aisles Have Eyes”

Guests: Steven Johnson, Joseph Turow In his book, Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, ...

Air Date: November 24, 2017

Listen 49:14
NPR
K-12
Sex & Relationships
Technology

Lessons in love for Generation Snapchat

Along with explicit sexual education classes, some schools are beginning to offer more G-rated lessons on love. Experts say the so-called "iGen" is woefully unprepared.

8 years ago


Pretty sure this isn't how things really went down.
(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
NPR
History
Social Justice

How to enjoy Thanksgiving without swallowing the stereotypes

This week on Ask Code Switch, we're discussing how a new generation of parents and educators should talk to their kids about Thanksgiving.

8 years ago

Tony (left) and Bart (right) Campolo
Radio Times
Religion

Pastor father, humanist son

Guests: Tony Campolo, Bart Campolo At fifty years old, BART CAMPOLO ...

Air Date: November 23, 2017

Listen 49:17
Radio Times
Food & Drink
History

What is American cuisine?

Guest: Gabrielle Langholtz American cuisine is difficult to define. Our diverse culinary traditions, cultures, his ...

Air Date: November 22, 2017

Listen 49:03
Black Friday (Photo Courtesy Bigstock)
Philly Parenting
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Great ways to spend Black Friday with your family in Philly

How do you spend the day after Thanksgiving? CNBC estimates that 137.4 million Americans will be holiday shopping at the malls and megastores.

8 years ago

Author's daughter (Picture Courtesy Jeff Bogle)
Philly Parenting
Kids
Philadelphia

Teaching kids to live for today

Every day that I’m fortunate enough to wake up, I reach down to the thin space between my bed frame and box spring.

8 years ago

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 1988, file photo, rescue workers examine the nose of Pan Am Flight 103 near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270 people. Families of some of the 270 people who died in the airliner bombing 25 years ago gathered for memorial services Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013, in the United States and Britain, honoring victims of the terror attack that killed dozens of American college students and created instant havoc in the Scottish town where wreckage of the plane rained down.
PBS

Her family tragedy was breaking news. Now she makes students into better media consumers.

8 years ago

Gwen Ifill (PBS)
PBS

What we find in Gwen Ifill’s words, one year later

8 years ago

(AP Photo)
Speak Easy
Elections
Law

Your vote won’t count if you don’t cast it

Knowing the history of voting rights for black people and and women, and voter suppression currently in effect around the country, motivates me to still push some buttons.

8 years ago

 Hillary Rodham Clinton jokes with the crowd during a keynote address at the Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, in Santa Clara, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)
Explainers

Not real news: A look at what didn't happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week.

8 years ago

Thanksgiving celebration
Speak Easy
Food & Drink
Home & Family

Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be yours

When we host, we have the routine down. But we do have some pressing questions

8 years ago

A cat playfully paws at the air
Speak Easy
Home & Family

Bringing a little Hope into my life

When my cat went to her Great Reward 18 months ago, I told myself, “Never again!” And then, one day, out of the blue, I made the call. “Linda? I’m ready to adopt a cat."

8 years ago

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