Is it time to re-name "summer?" Plus, prom fashion is all grown up

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summer is supposed to be for vacation and more relaxation, right? Well, for climate watchers, this season goes by a more sinister name. Brittany and NPR climate correspondents Lauren Sommer and Nate Rott get into what changes in summer weather mean for how and where we live.

Then, it's prom season and high schoolers are showing out! But styles have changed since the days of poofy dresses and bedazzled purses: prom fashion has reportedly become more adult. For many young people, prom reflects their ideas of glamour, so does this shift say something new about the fantasies of girlhood? Brittany sits down with writer Hilary George-Parkin who wrote about the blurring of age in fashion.

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0:00.0	How does the brain process memories?
0:03.0	Why is AI a solution and a problem for our climate?
0:07.0	What is leadership in 2025 and beyond?
0:11.0	The TED Radio Hour explores the biggest questions and the most
0:15.1	complicated ideas of our time with the world's greatest thinkers. Listen now to
0:21.9	the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.
0:25.0	Hello Hello, I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from
0:31.2	NPR. A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen
0:36.0	by accident. This week we're connecting the dots between summer vacation, severe weather, and
0:48.9	homeownership. I know, I know. How are all these things connected?
0:54.0	Well we're going to find out with NPR's climate correspondence,
0:57.0	Lauren Summer and Nate Rott.
0:59.0	Lauren, Nate,
1:00.0	welcome to it's been a minute.
1:02.0	Hi there.
1:03.0	Hey, thanks for having us.
1:04.0	I'm sure as climate correspondence, you get this a lot.
1:07.0	But I feel compelled to ask, how is the weather where you are?
1:10.0	Whoo, I'm in Ventura, California, and it is what we call May gray, and it's just kind of like
1:16.4	Damp and cold and definitely does not feel like summer, but I live in Southern California, so I'm not one to complain about it. Fair enough. not Congratulations on not having any fog. That seems like it controls a lot of your area.
1:36.5	Now, this is a culture show and weather actually does determine
1:40.5	a lot of our culture.
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