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Oud master Rahim AlHaj spoke to The World about his new album, "Letters from Iraq."

‘Letters from Iraq’ told through music

Music

Iraqi musician Rahim AlHaj tells us a powerful story about his song “Running Boy.” It’s part of The World’s new partnership with Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

Sandia National Laboratories.

US nuclear weapons contractor has agreed to pay millions for misuse of federal funds

Business
The TaHa Mosque in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The US has a wide variety of mosques, and these two guys have seen a lot of them

Belief

New research survey suggests urban trees are on the decline

Environment

As temperatures rise, humans and nature will both have to adapt

Environment

How video gaming could be good for you

Environment

A host of new studies show that video gaming might actually improve visual skills and increase brain capacity.

A Look Inside the World of the ICU

The Intensive Care Unit of a hospital is a place most of us hope we’ll never get to know. But for some families, these places can suddenly become all too familiar. Other people, like James Kelly, spend most of their time inside this environment. As a critical care RN in the ICU at Lovelace Women’s […]

The World

Vince Gilligan on Breaking Bad

Arts, Culture & Media

“I am amazed that this show is on the air – constantly amazed – because on paper this show shouldn’t work,” Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan told Kurt Andersen. It’s no wonder he feels that way.

The World

URBAN PETROGLYPH

Sitting on a windswept escarpment over Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the Petroglyphs National Monument where carvings were etched into giant boulders centuries ago by ancestors of today’s Pueblo people. Now local developers and city officials want to put a road through the Petroglyphs. The Department of Interior, which runs the site, says such a plan […]

Listener Successes

Sixth-grade science teacher Dan Shaw took his students into a burned down forest in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and turned it into a living science laboratory for his class. Steve Curwood asks him more about it.