The National Park Service turns 100 today! Wish them the happiest of birthdays for protecting the most beautiful land this country has to offer.
How do hippos get clean? [X]
Count down with us! There are 8 great days left until Astronaut Scott Kelly returns!
A YEAR IN SPACE premieres on PBS 3/2 at 8/7c.
Learn more: www.pbs.org/yearinspace
Elders in SF’s storied Chinatown wear whatever the heck they please, and it’s amazing.
Pictured: Man Ta, the woman in the Jade Shoes, is the posterwoman for Chinatown Pretty (Courtesy: Chinatown Pretty)
Did you know October 30th is National Candy Corn Day?
Get the Recipe: Candy Corn Cookies from PBS Food
5 Super Scary Fresh Air Interviews:
- ‘Blood Will Out’ Reveals Secrets Of A Murderous Master Manipulator
- Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared
- 'Fresh Air’ Remembers 'Nightmare’ Director Wes Craven
- Horror’s 'Shock Value’ Redefined In The 1960s
- Bio Credits Manson’s Terrible Rise To Right Place And Time
Happy Halloween!
Thanks for the pumpkin plug, @nprfreshair!
Come Intern At NPR!
There are lots of internships available for the winter/spring semester. Here’s what the interns are up to the past couple weeks. Internships range from working on the business desk to helping the legal team to being a co-curator on this very Tumblr!
Get started here. Sunday, Nov. 1, is the last day to apply.
For years now, appearing on photographer Scott Schuman’s blog The Sartorialist has been an elusive badge of honor for street fashionistas in fashion capitals like New York and Milan.
There will always be a special bond between (m)otters and (d)otters! #BigBlueLive
We’re in awe! Actually make that “AWWWW”
NEW VIDEO: an airborne orca catapults a dolphin during a hunt in a photo taken yesterday in the Monterey Bay.
Get the full story behind this dramatic image tonight on BIG BLUE LIVE at 8p PT/ET on PBS.
Not near a TV? You can stream it online at pbs.org/bigbluelive.
(Credit: Monterey Bay Whale Watch)
If you’re not watching the pbstv #BigBlueLive finale tonight... what are you doing??!
This summer, exercise the muscle that counts: that beautiful brain of yours. Luckily, we’ve got KQED’s 7-Day Brain Flex for just this purpose!
Take a quick quiz that diagnoses your tastes, and we’ll then send you two pieces of curated content a day -- handpicked from across the very best of KQED, NPR and PBS. We’ll also send you a special KQED gift after completing the week-long challenge. So what are you waiting for? Get started here!
This summer, exercise the muscle that counts: that beautiful brain of yours. Luckily, we’ve got KQED’s 7-Day Brain Flex for just this purpose!
Take a quick quiz that diagnoses your tastes, and we’ll then send you two pieces of curated content a day -- handpicked from across the very best of KQED, NPR and PBS. We’ll also send you a special KQED gift after completing the week-long challenge. So what are you waiting for? Get started here!
This summer, exercise the muscle that counts: that beautiful brain of yours. Luckily, we’ve got KQED’s 7-Day Brain Flex for just this purpose!
Take a quick quiz that diagnoses your tastes, and we’ll then send you two pieces of curated content a day -- handpicked from across the very best of KQED, NPR and PBS. We’ll also send you a special KQED gift after completing the week-long challenge. So what are you waiting for? Get started here!
This summer, exercise the muscle that counts: that beautiful brain of yours. Luckily, we’ve got KQED’s 7-Day Brain Flex for just this purpose!
Take a quick quiz that diagnoses your tastes, and we’ll then send you two pieces of curated content a day -- handpicked from across the very best of KQED, NPR and PBS. We’ll also send you a special KQED gift after completing the week-long challenge. So what are you waiting for? Get started here!
KQED just won four Emmy Awards! One of which was for our KQED Arts video about “earthscape artist” Andres Amador, whose sand creations wash away with the Bay Area tide.
Watch the whole video here!