'How Do You Tell Your Kids That You've Got Alzheimer's?'
Writer Greg O'Brien was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease five years ago. He describes what it was like to hear the news — and break it to his family.
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As A Father's Alzheimer's Progresses, Family Learns To Love Him As He Is
As his disease advances, Greg O'Brien finds his personality shifting, too. "I know I can't go back to who I was before," he says. "I've got to learn to live with the new me."
Despite Improving Job Market, Blacks Still Face Tougher Prospects
New social science research explores why the unemployment rate for blacks is persistently worse than the unemployment rate for whites.
Disgraced Scientist Clones Dogs, And Critics Question His Intent
A lab in Seoul is the only place in the world known to commercially clone dogs. But often the dog clones are sickly, critics say, and many other dogs are subjected to surgery to make a clone.
Here's Why Hurricane Joaquin Is So Inscrutable
NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jeff Halverson, severe weather expert for the Capitol Weather Gang. He also teaches meteorology at University Of Maryland, Baltimore County about how and why computer models for hurricane predictions get such different results.
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Atlas Rocket Lifts Off In Florida, Delivering A Spectacular Sky Show
The exhaust plume left by the booster, which was carrying a Mexican satellite into orbit, left some strange and interesting patterns in the morning sky.
How Can A Monotonous Job Be Meaningful?
Psychologist Barry Schwartz says our current thinking about work focuses too much on paychecks and too little on ways we can find fulfillment — even in jobs many might consider mundane.
What Pushes Us To Work Hard — Even When We Don't Have To?
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely says we work hard not because we have to, but because we want to. He examines the intrinsic values we need to feel motivated to work.
How Do You Break Into an Industry While Breaking All the Rules?
What's in a name? For tech entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley, bidding contracts under the name "Steve" enabled her to launch and grow a freelance software company with a virtually all-female staff.