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Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Every week listeners tune in to hear a unique blend of news and features with host Ayesha Rascoe, and the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.
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Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Every week listeners tune in to hear a unique blend of news and features with host Ayesha Rascoe, and the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up. On the Web, you can play along too.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Moth Radio Hour
For the AgesA trip through the phases of life — childhood to awkward adolescence, first jobs to careers and big leaps in adulthood. Hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer Suzanne Rust.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The New Yorker Radio Hour
‘The Thinking Machine’Microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years as a runner-up to Intel and Qualcomm, Nvidia has all but cornered the market on the parallel processors essential for artificial-intelligence programs like ChatGPT. “Nvidia was there at the beginning of AI,” tech journalist Stephen Witt tells David Remnick. “They really kind of made these systems work for the first time. We think of AI as a software revolution, something called neural nets, but AI is also a hardware revolution.” In The New Yorker, Stephen Witt profiled Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s brilliant and idiosyncratic co-founder and CEO. His new book is “The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip.”
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
City Arts and Lectures
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson on ‘Abundance’Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson discuss their new book “Abundance,” which calls for rethinking big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity: from climate change to housing and education to healthcare.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
On The Media
Distinctly American IdeaThe Trump administration has pulled funding for universities like Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, and is threatening to withhold federal dollars from public schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On the Media hears how the distinctly American idea of “diversity” has fallen out of favor — from higher education to the Supreme Court.
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