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  • 'Rise And Fall' Carries On Vagabond Adventure Tale Tradition
    The Rise and Fall of Great Powers — the latest from Imperfectionists author Tom Rachman — follows the travels of a young bookstore proprietor. It's a "strange" book that requires a bit of patience.
  • A Company's Tweets Can Help Make It Creditworthy
    Banks use credit scores and similar metrics to assess creditworthiness. A company called Kabbage that lends working capital to small businesses does some of that but also relies on unconventional measures, using real-time data from things like UPS shipments, eBay, Facebook and Twitter.
  • BuzzFeed Quizzes: What Data Set Do You Belong To?
    A scroll through your Facebook News Feed will turn up BuzzFeed quizzes about what Harry Potter character you are. Ad Age reporter Kate Kaye tells NPR's Scott Simon what BuzzFeed's doing with all the quiz data.
  • May You Tweet In Peace: Social Media Beyond The Grave
    Social media has definitely ingrained itself into our lives, but now it's seeping into our afterlives as well. A few companies are building services to maintain your online presence once you're six feet under. One's slogan is: "When your heart stops beating, you'll keep tweeting."
  • Entrepreneurs Access New Media at Expo
    By Angela Hattonhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-908247.mp3Mayfield, KY – Kentucky has around 93,000 registered small…
  • A DoorDash delivery person rides their bike in New York City. Workers across the country went on strike on July 31 to demand higher pay and tip transparency.
    Why DoorDash Drivers Are On Strike
    Having organized on TikTok, Reddit and Facebook, many DoorDash drivers around the country logged off the app on Saturday. Drivers are demanding tip transparency and higher pay.
  • This photo from a trip last November shows the friends and family members whom Danielle Zonis (third from right) has chosen to quarantine with during the coronavirus pandemic. She started a Facebook group for others to discuss the choices they're making to stay safe.
    Coronavirus Etiquette: Conflicts About What's Safe Are Straining Relationships
    The coronavirus pandemic requires people to weigh risks and make choices about their activities. But there can be problems when a choice conflicts with what the people around us decide to do.
  • Video from the Feldman Ecopark's Facebook page shows a man driving a van full of marsupials. It took off on social media, drawing attention to the Kharkiv zoo's war casualties and mission to evacuate its animals to safety.
    A bunch of kangaroos are the latest animals to be rescued from a hard-hit Kharkiv zoo
    The Feldman Ecopark in the hard-hit city of Kharkiv has lost many animals and even several staff members to Russian shelling in the past month. It's now trying to evacuate as many animals as possible.
  • What's On Russian Voters' Minds
    For months Russians have been protesting nearly every weekend ahead of this Sunday's local municipal elections. NPR's Scott Simon talks to architect Nadine about voting after months of protests.
  • What Tornado Damage Looks Like In Putnam County, Tenn.
    One town in Putnam County, Tenn. took the brunt of Monday night's tornado. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Cookeville, Tenn. resident Katelyn Steakley.
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