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John Koenig: What If There Were A Word For Every Emotion In The World?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

When we can't describe how we're feeling, we say we "have no words." But in his made-up dictionary, writer John Koenig has invented words to describe our most abstract and ephemeral emotions.

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Tiffany Watt Smith: Did People In The Past Experience Emotions Differently?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Did past generations experience and express emotions the same way we do? Probably not, says historian Tiffany Watt Smith — perceptions of our emotions depend on the time and place.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett: Can We Really Tell How Other People Are Feeling?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Identifying basic emotions in others — like fear, sadness or anger — seems instinctive, but psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett says we're doing more guesswork than we think.

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Kang Lee: Can Technology Detect Our Hidden Emotions?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Developmental researcher Kang Lee says scientists can detect emotions by reading subtle physiological signals beneath the surface of our skin.

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Michael Tilson Thomas: Why Is Music So Good At Conveying Emotion?

9:09am March 09, 2018

by NPR/TED Staff

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas traces the history of classical music, revealing its power to present a variety of complex human emotions.

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Stalin's Dead and Red in The Death of Stalin. L to R: Dermot Crowley as Kaganovich; Paul Whitehouse as Mikoyan; Steve Buscemi as Krushchev; Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov; Paul Chahidi as Bulganin.

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Iannucci's 'The Death Of Stalin': Amid Chaos, Great Energy

10:05pm March 08, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Armando Iannucci directs this lacerating, frenetic dissection of the power vacuum left by Stalin's death. The director "never overtly winks at current parallels East or West. He doesn't have to."

Mattel Introduces 17 'Shero' Barbies To Celebrate International Women's Day

5:22pm March 08, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Aisha Sultan about the new Barbie dolls Mattel made to mark International Women's Day. The special series celebrates famous women including NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and artist Frida Kahlo.

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Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself in some unexpected trouble on his business trip to Mexico in Gringo.

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A Good Man's Moral Compass Points South-Of-The-Border In 'Gringo'

5:01pm March 08, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Though it traffics in broad stereotypes, several funny performances nearly salvage this satiric tale of a faked kidnapping, greedy executives and dim-bulb criminals.

Lily (Anya Taylor-Jo, L) and Amanda (Olivia Cooke, R) hatch a plot to kill a troublesome step-father in Thoroughbreds.

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Tense, Stylish 'Thoroughbreds' Earns Place In Winner's Circle

5:01pm March 08, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Murder Most Foal: Two teenage girls — a champion horseback rider and a fashionable boarding school student — plan a bloody deed in this "blistering new comic thriller."

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'A Wrinkle In Time' Will Delight Target Audience That Doesn't Have Too Many Wrinkles

4:59pm March 08, 2018

by Bob Mondello

NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello discusses the star-studded film adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time, the sci-fi fantasy novel about light and darkness, time and tesseracts.