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Alaska's public schools can serve as emergency shelters. The buildings are in crisis

Alaska's public schools are being used as emergency shelters, though many of the buildings are crumbling.

Could 'Parks and Recreation' still work 10 years later? Jerry actor isn't sure

Actor Jim O'Heir shares stories from seven years on NBC's Parks & Recreation with NPR's Juana Summers.

ADHD looks different in women and poses unique health risks

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

Classicist and translator Emily Wilson published a critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey in the London Review of Books. Wilson has loved Greek myths since childhood and has translated both the Iliad and Odyssey. She has tattoos of a spear on one leg and a bow on the other — she says they represent Achilles and Odysseus.

'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn't have written the movie himself

The renowned classics scholar caused a stir when her critical review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey went viral. Wilson explains her reaction to the film and why she's translating the poem again.

New Young Adult Novel By C.J. Farley Illustrates Kids' Eye View Of The Pandemic

"Zero O'Clock" focuses on a high school senior in New Rochelle whose preoccupation with college admissions, her father's death and the K-pop group BTS becomes overshadowed by the Covid-19 outbreak.

In this June 20 photo, City Court Judge Craig Hannah presides at Opiate Crisis Intervention Court in Buffalo, N.Y. The first such program in the country puts users under faster, stricter supervision than ordinary drug courts, all with the goal of keeping them alive.

To Save Opioid Addicts, This Experimental Court Is Ditching The Delays

Underscoring the severity of the U.S. overdose crisis, a first-of-its kind opioid intervention court aims to get drug-addicted criminal defendants into recovery before their criminal case is heard.

Tegan and Sara. (Trevor Ball Photography)

Tegan And Sara Take It Back To Their Teens For New Album, Memoir

The musical duo Tegan and Sara return to high school. They join for a conversation about music ⁠— and growing up.

From mosses to mountain lions, the temperate old-growth rainforests of the Pacific Northwest provide the complexities and conditions necessary to support high levels of biodiversity. The Northwest Forest Plan has provided protection for these ancient ecosystems over the last 30 years, and has helped advance forest management in Oregon, Washington and California. Developed in response to decades of unsustainable logging practices, the plan has helped restore forest ecosystems in 17 National Forests.

A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests

From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.

What Hollywood gets right about journalism movies

NPR journalists Scott Detrow, Sacha Pfeiffer and Linda Holmes discuss Hollywood's treatment of journalism movies and how they reflect public perception of the profession.

Simeone-Zurkowski 6/17/17

Today's programming is made possible in part by GLT Day Sponsors, Jim Simeone and Kathi Zurkowski and the Action Research Center at Illinois Wesleyan…

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