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Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography The Code Breaker, shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editing technology.

CRISPR Scientist's Biography Explores Ethics Of Rewriting The Code Of Life

1:48pm March 08, 2021

by Terry Gross

The Code Breaker profiles Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist key to the development of CRISPR, and examines the technology's exciting possibilities and need for oversight.

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Frida Kahlo, Diego and Frida 1929 – 1944, 1944, oil on masonite with original painted shell frame, private collection, courtesy Galería Arvi

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5 Lesser-Known, Late-In-Life Works By Frida Kahlo Now On View In Dallas

9:00am March 08, 2021

by Susan Stamberg

"In this difficult period, people feel a strong connection to Kahlo's sorrows and triumphs," says Dallas Museum of Art curator Mark A. Castro. Kahlo made these paintings as her health deteriorated.

You're Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility by Annabelle Gurwitch

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Annabelle Gurwitch's Mid-Life Maelstrom: Divorce, Cancer, 'Downward Mobility'

8:33am March 07, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

You're Leaving When? is a witty memoir of Gurwitch's many middle age misadventures — and it doesn't even cover the stage IV lung cancer diagnosis she received in the midst of the pandemic.

Mara Wilson Reflects On Fame At A Young Age, Britney Spears' Career

8:33am March 07, 2021

Actor and writer Mara Wilson reflects on Britney Spears' career and the ways in which famous young women are objectified by the media.

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Margaret Qualley Gets A Taste Of The Literary World In 'My Salinger Year'

8:33am March 07, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Margaret Qualley about her new role in the movie, My Salinger Year, based on the memoir by Joanna Rakoff.

Alice Cooper Revisits Hometown In New Album

8:33am March 07, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Alice Cooper about his new album, Detroit Stories.

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'Year of the Beast': How Tara Wray Used Photography To 'Process Fear And Uncertainty'

7:54am March 07, 2021

by Di'Amond Moore

Wray explores the difficulties of 2020, balancing the pandemic, family and work through her photography in a new book. She hopes "people will see themselves ... or loved ones in these pictures."

Residents look out of their windows at the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown.

How Bubonic Plague Reshaped The Streets Of Mumbai

7:30am March 07, 2021

by Sushmita Pathak

The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.

Once Upon a QuinceaÃ±era, by Monica Gomez-Hira

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'Once Upon A Quinceañera' Has Fairy Tale Charm

7:00am March 07, 2021

by Alethea Kontis

Monica Gomez-Hira's debut novel follows a Miami teen whose job as a party princess brings her into contact with the ex who ruined her chance to have her own quinceañera — and of course, sparks fly.

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Not My Job: We Quiz 'Alone' Winner Jordan Jonas On Burning Man

3:54pm March 06, 2021

Alone is a reality show in which people with advanced survival skills are dropped into the wilderness with limited supplies. Jonas lasted 77 days near the Arctic Circle.

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