Monkey See
10:16 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Dear Tiny Desk: Miss You

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The Lone Bellow performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Feb. 20, 2013.
The Two-Way
10:15 am
Fri May 24, 2013

2 Men Arrested After Pakistani Jet Is Diverted Over U.K.

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 1:17 pm

Two men were arrested and removed from a Pakistan International Airlines passenger jet Friday. It had been on its way from Lahore, Pakistan, to Manchester, England, when something that happened aboard led authorities to scramble Royal Air Force fighter jets and divert the passenger plane to London Stansted Airport.

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TED Radio Hour
9:58 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Memory Games

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"We all look through family albums. We all hear stories at the dinner table. ... They become incorporated into what we believe we actually remember." — Scott Fraser

"Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true." -- Daniel Kahneman

Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. When we tap into our memories, where's the line between fact and fiction? How does our memory play tricks on us, and how can we train it to be more accurate? In this hour, TED speakers discuss how a nimble memory can improve your life, and how a frail one might ruin someone else's.

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TED Radio Hour
9:58 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Can Anyone Learn To Be A Master Memorizer?

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Joshua Foer says that one past memory champion developed a technique to remember more than 4,000 binary digits in half an hour.

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Memory Games.

About Joshua Foer's TEDTalk

Some people can memorize thousands of numbers, the names of dozens of strangers or the precise order of cards in a shuffled deck. Science writer and U.S. Memory Champion Joshua Foer shows how anyone can become a memory virtuoso, including him.

About Joshua Foer

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TED Radio Hour
9:58 am
Fri May 24, 2013

How Do Experiences Become Memories?

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Daniel Kahneman says, "we tend to confuse memories with the real experience that gave rise to those memories."

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Memory Games.

About Daniel Kahneman's TEDTalk

Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman goes through a series of examples of things we might remember, from vacations to colonoscopies. He explains how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently.

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TED Radio Hour
9:58 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Can Eyewitnesses Create Memories?

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Forensic psychologist Scott Fraser says, "all of our memories, put simply, are reconstructed memories."

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Memory Games.

About Scott Fraser's TEDTalk

Forensic psychologist Scott Fraser studies how we remember crimes. He describes a deadly shooting and explains how eyewitnesses can create memories that they haven't seen. Why? Because the brain is always trying to fill in the blanks.

About Scott Fraser

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The Two-Way
9:16 am
Fri May 24, 2013

British Soldier Hacked To Death Was 'Our Hero,' Family Says

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As Ian Rigby spoke Friday about his stepson Lee, a British soldier who was murdered on a south London street this week, the young man's widow, Rebecca (right), and his mother, Lyn, reached out.

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 11:37 am

The Two-Way
8:34 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Developing: Explosion, Gunfire In Kabul

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A wounded Afghan police officer is helped from the scene of Friday's explosion and gunfire in Kabul.

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 1:53 pm

  • NPR's Sean Carberry, reporting from Kabul

(We most recently updated the top of this post at 1:45 p.m. ET.)

An explosion followed by gunfire in Kabul on Friday claimed the lives of at least two attackers and wounded a small number of civilians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which appeared to have been aimed at offices of the International Organization for Migration and stretched over several hours as Afghan security forces tried to hunt down those responsible.

As night fell in Kabul, it was unclear whether the incident was over or not.

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The Two-Way
8:13 am
Fri May 24, 2013

Assad Regime Agrees To Attend Peace Conference, Russia Says

Originally published on Fri May 24, 2013 10:27 am

Representatives of President Bashar Assad's regime have agreed "in principle" to attend an international peace conference aimed at ending more than two years of brutal warfare in Syria, Russia's foreign ministry said Friday.

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