theatlantic:

Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?

Radio figures Ira Glass, Sylvia Poggioli, Neda Ulaby, and others have inspired restaurants, pets’ names, license plates, and songs.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

Hello name phenomenon. 

nprmusic:

Watch Macklemore & Ryan Lewis literally shake the dust off the ceiling tiles at the NPR Music offices in a Tiny Desk Concert.

Photo: Lauren Rock/NPR

Hello this is most excellent.

I saw Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at Dallas H.O.B. last month and it was incredible (no hyperbole). I go to a lot of shows and I have never been in a room with so much energy and enthusiasm, with a healthy dose of emotional connection. 

nprmusic:

The same brain system that controls our muscles also helps us remember music, scientists say. But the discovery might never have happened without The Beatles.

Of course The Beatles inspired scientific discovery, of course.

nprmusic:

All Songs Considered offers sneak previews of some of the summer’s most anticipated releases. Hear song premieres from The Avett Brothers, JEFF The Brotherhood, Grizzly Bear, Cat Power, The Antlers, Nas and this summer’s chooglin’ anthem: “Even If You Knew” by Six Organs of Admittance.

Hello anticipation. 

nprfreshair:

On today’s Fresh Air, Sandor Katz talks about DIY techniques for making your own cheese, wine, cured meats and beer: ““Fruit and honey will spontaneously ferment into alcohol whereas grains, which are complex carbohydrates rather than simple carbohydrates, need to be predigested. They need to have those complex carbs broken down into simple carbs. In the Western tradition of beer-making, we do this through malting — which is germination, or sprouting. In the Asian tradition, molds are used. And really, the most ancient method of doing this is chewing — using our human saliva to break down starches into sugars, and then you brew the beer from the grains which have already been malted or otherwise enzymatically broken down into starches.”

sam’s latest commitment (by qichao)

Hello foods,

We need more artisans like Sam in Dallas.

If only so I may die a delicious, homemade cheese death.

nprfreshair:

I never saw an Indian person on TV unless it was like Gandhi or a James Bond movie where he goes to India or they’re showing the Quik-E-Mart guy. There was no one Indian on TV.” — Aziz Ansari [complete interview here]

(via Aziz Ansari’s Latest Is ‘Dangerously Delicious’ : NPR)

Hello Aziz,

I love you.

I will spend $5 on your special

and pretend you are my boyfriend.