Manuela Lopez Restrepo

5 days ago | nhpr.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ashley Brown

As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it?

5 days ago | kwit.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ashley Brown

As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it?

5 days ago | wusf.org | Mia Venkat |Scott Detrow |Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Ashley Brown

As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it?

1 week ago | wesa.fm | Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Mia Venkat |Ailsa Chang |William Troop

As much as the news media serves to inform the public, we're also here to give you something to talk about. Learning about the world around us provides the connective tissue for spirited interactions and growing deeper bonds with each other. What are you going to bring up at the dinner table to get the conversation flowing? Did you read that article everybody has been talking about, too? Who is it? This week's main character is not a person, dear reader.

2 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Manuela Lopez Restrepo |Mia Venkat |Ari Shapiro

Do you recall the prime early days of YouTube? When a video making the rounds was so strange, remarkable or unbelievable that it soon became ubiquitous in meme culture? This week proved that those specks of stranger-than-fiction internet magic are still here, a reminder that David Lynch's spirit can still be found all around if you look hard enough. Who are they? The Twinnies, gosh darn it! Their names are Bridgette and Paula Powers, identical twins from Queensland, Australia.