Ari Daniel
Science Reporter, Writer and Producer at Freelance
Reporter, Science Desk at NPR
Senior Producer at The Story Collider
I used to study killer whales. Now I report science stories for NPR. In the fifth grade, I won an award for most contagious smile.
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khsu.org | Ari Daniel
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included modern-day Guinea-Bissau. The stories of its royalty and reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song, one that helped inspire an archaeological dig that revealed physical evidence of the kingdom's capital. Here's reporter Ari Daniel.
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smithsonianmag.com | Ari Daniel |to That"
There's More to That A Smithsonian magazine special report Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ago emerge Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American rebels that British troops were approaching. The famous ride and an ensuing battle at Lexington and Concord touched off the American Revolution.
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nhpr.org | Ari Daniel
Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an archaeological dig has confirming the histories told and retold by griots.
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smithsonianmag.com | Ari Daniel |to That"
A baseball diamond buried long ago at Manzanar has been rebuilt to honor the Americans who once played the sport there Baseball was a way of life in the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The United States government stripped the Americans who lived in these camps of their liberties, but for those communities, having played the game for generations, baseball brought them closer to each other and, paradoxically, to their country.
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nytimes.com | Ari Daniel
Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany, has been in love with foie gras for a quarter century. The luxurious delicacy is a pâté or mousse made from the rich, fattened livers of ducks or geese. "It's something really extraordinary," Dr. Vilgis said, recalling his early encounters with high-quality foie gras when he lived and worked in Strasbourg, France.
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If you're in Boston on Saturday eve, come to the @storycollider show at the @MITMuseum. Theme is: Fractures. We've got five true, personal stories about the ruptures in our lives and how science sometimes triggers — and sometimes heals — those breaks. https://t.co/mDOzWA2WHl
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