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3 weeks ago | npr.org | Matt Ozug |Juana Summers |Sarah Handel |Marc Silver

Salt-less Jamaican soup a 'transformational' experience Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5347677/nx-s1-5410005-1" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> NPR's Juana Summers talks with Genevieve Villamora about adapting healing soup recipes from around the world with ingredients commonly available in the U.S. Sponsor Message

3 weeks ago | kuow.org | Matt Ozug |Juana Summers |Sarah Handel |Marc Silver

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Genevieve Villamora about adapting healing soup recipes from around the world with ingredients commonly available in the U.S.

3 weeks ago | wfdd.org | Neda Ulaby |Marc Silver |Laurel Wamsley

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1 month ago | opb.org | Marc Silver

The boy and bird are, of course, not really flying together. But ... they are both airborne. The child is jumping into the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, during a heatwave in February 2024. Photographer Andre Malerba notes: "This image recalls the free feeling of leaping from several times one's height into water to escape the heat as friends laugh and cheer you on. A time many of us might remember as when we felt truly whole and at peace, even if life wasn't perfect.

1 month ago | wgbh.org | Marc Silver

March 20, 2025 What’s the appropriate greeting for the International Day of Happiness? Happy Happiness Day? Have a happy day of happiness? Happy happy to ya? You may think this is a frivolous question, but today — March 20 — is in fact International Day of Happiness. Declared by the United Nations in 2013, this special day recognizes the importance of happiness as “a fundamental goal” in people’s lives around the world. “It’s a day to be happy, of course!” the U.N. offers.