Short Wave - Happy New Year!

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

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Maddie Safaya here with shortwave reporter Emily Kwong, here to say happy New Year to you. We are off today, but wherever you are, we hope you had a safe and happy orbit around the sun. And if your brain hurts this morning, science tells us that that's because, stay with me here, you took alcohol that was outside of your body and swallowed it. Therefore, moving the alcohol inside your body. And you probably did that too many times. That's science. And we're here for you in this moment.

The Johns Hopkins Headache Center recommends water, lots of water, if you celebrate it a little too much, and other liquids like soups or sports drinks. But avoid acetyminaol, because your liver has had it rough enough already. Speaking of celebrating, we want to celebrate you for supporting public radio this month. All month long, we encourage you to give to your local NPR member station, and so many of you did that. And we can't thank you enough for it. Now we can look forward to another orbit around the sun and, you know, another. 255 shortwave episodes? Give her take. 2020 is a leap year. All right. Well, happy new year. I'm

Maddie Safaya. And I'm Emily Kwong. We're back tomorrow with a new episode of shortwave from NPR.