Being a good and decent human with empathy is, in fact, cool.

Beautiful 😍

Cat with muted gray and orange stripes, lying in a window hammock, yawning broadly

I am (spoiled) housecat...hear me roar.

The news is delivered in calm voices, the human-interest stories are moving and thought-provoking, and the individual stations also provide local programming that is incredibly informative.

If you are not currently an NPR listener, find, listen to, and fund your local station. You won’t be sorry.

Girl Beats Rabies, No Vaccine Without the help of a vaccine, doctors save a 15-year-old Wisconsin girl who contracted rabies when a bat bit her at church. The treatment involved putting her into a coma; now conscious, she appears ...

While essentially parked on the 405 freeway, I was riveted, and that day I became a donor to my local station.
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I began listening to NPR in 2004, when I had a 19 mile commute that took 2 hours (I do not miss this part of you, SoCal!) I distinctly remember one “All Things Considered” segment about rabies, and how a doctor saved a girl by putting her in a medically-induced coma to protect her brain.

A Vermont choir shows that people with aphasia who struggle to speak can still sing People who've had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia: difficulty using language, both written and spoken. But music mostly originates in the undamaged hemisphere of the brain.

I heard this segment on the radio and was incredibly moved and intrigued to learn more—just one of a multitude of examples I could give of what NPR offers its listeners, beyond straight news. (A breath of fresh air in the firehose of sh^t that is my current news feed.)

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I'm so happy you're here!

Excuse me while I scream into the void...