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Meghan Daum on Nebraska Farmers
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Commentator Meghan Daum talks about Nebraska farmers in drag.
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NPR's Melissa Block talks about the political climate in New Hampshire with two veteran newspapermen from the state: Nick Pappas of <EM>The Nashua Telegraph</EM> and John Harrigan of <EM>The New and Sentinel</EM> in Colebrook.
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Clinton: The Tobacco Deal
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-- N-P-R's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton tentatively expressed approval of the tobacco deal, suggesting that Congress could modify the deal significantly before passing the legislation to implement it. He particularly expressed concern about ensuring the stregnth of the Food and Drug Adminstration's regulatory power.
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Six Democratic presidential candidates debated on Tuesday night in Iowa, less than three weeks before the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses.<br/><br/>It came up early: can a woman win? The candidates agreed that the answer is yes after Bernie Sanders denied Elizabeth Warren's accusation that he told her a woman couldn't win.<br/><br/>And as the candidates debated trade, Sanders stood out as the only opponent of USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA.<br/><br/>This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, political correspondents Scott Detrow and Asma Khalid, and political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben.<br/><br/><strong>Connect:<br/></strong>Subscribe to the <a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510310/npr-politics-podcast">NPR Politics Podcast here</a>.<br/>Email the show at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.<br/>Join the NPR Politics Podcast <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/nprpoliticspodcast/?ref=pages_profile_groups_tab&source_id=1604383669807606">Facebook Group</a>.<br/>Subscribe to the <a href="https://www.npr.org/politicsnewsletter">NPR Politics Newsletter</a>.<br/>Find and support <a href="https://www.npr.org/stations/">your local public radio station</a>.
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Let's Keep Political Coverage Focused on the Issues
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During this campaign season, why is it that we have to hear so much reporting about politicians' lifestyles? Wouldn't it be more useful to hear about something a little more substantive, such as what they plan to do while in office? <em>Commentator Lester Spence teaches political science at Johns Hopkins University</em>.
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The NFL is struggling to handle players who want to protest during the national anthem and Ohio State is facing a sexual abuse scandal. We hear about those stories and more sports news.
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Health Dialogues: Health Care and the Media
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How does the media influence medical choices made by Californians? What stories are being reported by broadcast, print, online and ethnic media, and which aren't? Is the information accurate, and placed in proper context, and are sources of funding and conflicts of interest revealed? How do drug companies and others target media messages in different communities? What questions do consumers need to ask of the health data? On the August Health Dialogues, we explore just what kind of job the media is doing covering health care issues.[rebroadcast Fri, Aug 18 at 2am and Sat, Aug 19 at 1pm]
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NBC senior politics editor Beth Fouhy joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to review the tumultuous week in politics, from President Trump’s release from the hospital where he was treated for COVID-19 to the uncertainty on when the next presidential debate will take place. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Technology injects new life into a dull medium: presentations .
SmartPens bring audio and written notes together .
Growth in online applications makes slide shows and lectures more interesting .
Success of TED lectures means educational content can be popular .
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(CNN) -- Lectures, slide shows and notes are often boring, but people are using technology to find entertainment in these unlikely places. Spoof notes of "Star Wars" are scribbled into a fun online "pencast." Some use high-tech pens to track presentations. Others share PowerPoints in slide show form online. These technologically spiced-up presentations seem to be getting more attention these days. They're also creating buzz about what the future of presentations might hold. Consider "pencasts," which are made using the Pulse SmartPen and specially gridded paper, both sold by the California startup Livescribe. The pen writes like an ordinary pen but also has a voice recorder, and it "notes" (so to speak) which notes were taken at which point in the recording. Some quirky SmartPen presentations come off as comedy sketches. One popular presentation muses about how George Lucas might have come up with the idea for Star Wars. Some university students love the technology because they can record and play back what their professor was saying at an exact point in their notes -- which is especially useful when you can't read your own writing. And many professors are all for it, too. "I feel like this is one of those 'Rear View Mirror' moments in which a new technology comes into our lives with enormous potential and we just don't know what to do with it yet," blogs Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropology and digital ethnography professor at Kansas State University. "We think of it in terms of what we know (pen and paper) and fail to recognize the potential." That potential -- for entertainment and serious uses alike -- can be gleaned from pencasts posted on the Livescribe Web site's community section, which is about a year old. The pencasts posted there have collectively received more than 1.5 million views. Soon, it will be easier to embed pencasts on other sites, like personal blogs, the company says. Slide shows are further along in popularity. A startup called SlideShare launched in late 2006 with the idea of allowing people to easily share their PowerPoint presentations. Its site had more than 15 million visitors last month, and its 2008 contest for the best presentations showed off the form's potential. The best are far removed from the dull bullet-point presentations you might have fallen asleep to. Many use dramatic images, striking design and memorable phrases. Former Vice President Al Gore developed his presentation on the planet's environmental challenges into the Academy Award-winning documentary and best-selling book "An Inconvenient Truth." Last year's top SlideShare presentation, called "Thirst," highlights the looming water crisis and has nearly 200,000 views. Others are more light-hearted. The No. 2 spot (with more than 60,000 views) went to a presentation called "Foot Notes." It shows pictures of the narrator's feet in various places she's been (like on cobblestone corridors in Prague and a dance floor in Chicago), interspersed with inspiring quotes related to feet and walking. Finally, for many people, the most dreaded, boring form of communication of all is the lecture. But then, how to explain the popularity of the TED videos? TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. The conference started in the mid-'80s and has become a networking event of sorts for the world's best and brightest. Dozens of speakers give presentations of about 20 minutes each -- the perfect duration for a juicy "media snack." TED.com started introducing TEDTalks to the public for free in July 2006, and by the following year, there were more than a hundred talks dating back to 2002. Broken down into dozens of themes, today they're popular fodder for video iPods. In one, the amputee athlete and model Aimee Mullins talks about how her many pairs of artificial legs often beat having a single pair of regular ones -- some make her taller, others are works of art. In another, Jill Tarter, an astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research, discusses how insanely large the universe is and what a "waste of space" it would be if life on Earth were indeed all there is. It's hard to watch a handful of TED videos and not feel your perspective broadening. That helps explain how, despite the lecture format, TEDTalks has become hugely popular. A few months ago, the videos surpassed the 100 million views mark -- not bad for a bunch of lectures.
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Charlie Crist's fan isn't allowed on stage under the rules of an October 21 Florida governor's race debate that CNN is hosting in conjunction with Jacksonville affiliate WJXT. The candidates were sent a memo on October 8 outlining the format, rules and logistical information for the debate. Among those rules: No electronic devices. The memo stated: "There will be no opening and closing statements, no notes, no props and no electronic devices will be allowed on stage. Candidates will be provided water, notepad and pen," a CNN spokesperson said Thursday. The CNN spokesperson said electronic devices range from a cell phone to a fan. Crist's decision to place a fan on stage during a separate debate Wednesday night triggered what the moderator described as "the most unique beginning to any debate not only in Florida, but anywhere in the country." Related: Fan delays Florida debate . Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, was seven minutes late walking onto the stage -- while moderators tried to explain during the live broadcast that he had decided not to participate because Crist had placed a small electronic fan under his own podium to keep cool. Almost immediately, "#fangate" was trending on Twitter. Crist, standing alone on stage, asked if the candidates were "really going to debate about a fan." Eventually, Scott walked onto the stage. His campaign said later that it was actually Crist who was in the midst of intense behind-the-scenes conversations with debate organizers over whether his fan would be allowed -- and that Scott was just waiting to see what happened. He hadn't realized that Crist had gone on stage. Scott said on CNN's "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that he had been waiting in a trailer for debate officials to tell him to head to the stage. "They said he wasn't going to show up, that he was balking about his fan," Scott said, adding that he didn't care if Crist had a fan, a microwave or a humidifier. The organizers of the October 15 debate backed up Scott's version of events Thursday, saying Crist clearly broke the rules -- and ignored instructions given an hour before start time -- by having an aide place the fan on stage. Each campaign was sent a letter ahead of time explaining that "candidates may not bring electronic devices (including fans), visual aids or notes to the debate," the two groups that hosted the debate Wednesday, Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association, said Thursday. Crist's campaign signed and returned that letter two days before the debate with a handwritten note appended saying the Democrat agreed to those rules, "with understanding that the debate hosts will address any temperature issues with a fan if necessary." Dean Ridings, the president of the Florida Press Association, got the note and told Crist's campaign that while organizers wanted all candidates to be comfortable, the auditorium at Broward College, where the debate was to be held, "would be maintained at a comfortable temperature, and if there was a temperature problem, the partners would deal with it appropriately." The stage was at 67 degrees at 6 p.m. Thursday, an hour before the debate. At 6:20 p.m., it was 66 degrees. But at some point in that 20-minute span, a Crist campaign aide placed the fan on stage -- "and they were again told that no fans would be permitted," organizers said. "In the minutes before airtime, the communication among the campaigns, the producing television station and the debate partners was chaotic and there undoubtedly was some confusion, but Gov. Scott never told Ridings or Wendy Walker, president, Leadership Florida, that he would not join the debate," the organizers said. "Rather, the Scott campaign was waiting on resolution of the rules issue before Scott took the stage. The debate partners appreciate Gov. Scott's willingness to participate in the debate."
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Start a Rumor
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Rumors have been used by ordinary people, the media, and even governments to sway public opinion. Rumors can be hurtful or harmless. They can spread and get out of control.
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Wish you could read minds? Sorry, you can't but that doesn't mean you can't pretend to read someones mind! Follow these steps and watch as your friends are amazed.
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Since The Uncertainty Principle is an accepted true principle of Physics,how can we ever get to Certainty?
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you can't. Uncertainty principle states that you can not know two important values at the sma time. for instance you can not know the speed and the location of the particle. but you can know them aprox. Main problem in quantum mechanics is that particles do not have trajectories, so there is no point in knowing both values at the same time. This seems strange but it was proven in experiments(Aspect)
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Two thoughts.\n\nFirst, I think the headline "Immigration Bill Falls Victim to Politics" IS factual reporting. The group that had coalesced behind this bill could not hammer out their differences in the details, so members from both parties withdrew their support - for now, at least. What is unfortunate is the finger-pointing on both sides in a juvenile attempt to win political points; this childish behavior only makes future compromise more difficult.\n\nSecond, why on earth do we expect (or even want) unbiased reporting? To expect another human being to relay facts, quotes, statements, etc. in a completely dispassionate way is unrealistic. I can't leave my biases out of telling even the simplest stories, because I see things from only my limited point of view. I wouldn't expect a reporter - who is only human, after all - to do otherwise.\n\nI, for one, am glad that we have a variety of media outlets from which we can get our information. Hearing information from different sources causes me to CHALLENGE my own limited perspective and forces me to think more deeply than I would have allowed myself had I listened only to one news source that serves only to reinforce my biases. So what if Yahoo! takes a headline from a Ted Kennedy quote? Sure, some people (as you suggested) see him as an selfish idiot who cares nothing for others, but others view him differently. As you very correctly indicated, the truth - about Kennedy, about everything - is somewhere in the middle.
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Why don`t people research leaders and only accept the given thought of the mass media?
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We did do our research and homework and we elected the best candidate. Now that you have cut and paste down, why don't you learn to use your head for something other than a voice box that says nothing.
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search the web and check them for authenticity, cross-referencing them with one another. there's a lot of misinformation going around as well.
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iS THERE ANY UPDATE ABOUT 2006 NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE?
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NO idea!! And no-one else does either by the looks of it..... :-)\nI will be watching though.....I work in a high school
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Hey non verbal communicatin or body language has been an interesting subject. Hers's something from wikipedia\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language
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Are there any liberal pundits on television?
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the reason all the big names are conservative is because the media is bias toward conservatives AND conservatives need someone to tell them what to think because they are unable to think themselves.
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Immigration\nGay Marriage\nWar in Iraq\nAbortion\n\nJust to name a few...
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How did the media become so biased?
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Why is the media so biased?
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Which is more biased, MSNBC or Fox News?
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Computational International Relations: What Can Programming, Coding and Internet Research Do for the Discipline?
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Media and Political Polarization
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Media bias and reputation
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Predicting Missing Links via Local Information
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Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere: Are Conservative Bloggers More Prominent?
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Electronically Tunable Doherty Power Amplifier for Multi-Mode Multi-Band Base Stations
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Why is the media against Trump?
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Why is US mainstream media biased against Trump?
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Why do reporters/ pundits on Fox keep referencing " the mainstream media" as if they aren't a part of it?
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bias in cable news : real effects and polarization .
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persuasion bias , social influence , and unidimensional .
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How mental systems believe
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Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere: Are Conservative Bloggers More Prominent?
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The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: divided they blog
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Reagent-Free Quantification of Aqueous Free Chlorine via Electrical Readout of Colorimetrically Functionalized Pencil Lines
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There are always people who say that they don't trust Wikipedia sources. What does Jimmy Wales have to say?
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What does Jimmy Wales think of people who say Wikipedia is a bad source for correct information?
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How dangerous was it for John Oliver to conduct his interview with Edward Snowden?
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Is it legal to copy articles from CNN, Yahoo News, etc., to my website mentioning the source?
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Is it legal to copy news from other sites?
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Since Trump won, is it true that the liberal media is eating crows and will be digesting feathers and beaks in the next weeks and months?
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What does Jimmy Wales think about Wikipedia's reputation of being 100% unreliable?
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What does Jimmy Wales think about the relatively widespread belief that Wikipedia is an unreliable source?
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Would it be dangerous for Donald Trump to bring up Bill Clinton's infidelities in the next debate given his own personal history?
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What does Jimmy Wales think about the relatively widespread belief that Wikipedia is an unreliable source?
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What does Jimmy Wales think about Wikipedia being considered as an unreliable source?
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Why are Indians tearing into Kejriwal for saying India, not Pak, is globally isolated over Uri attack? Kejriwal is honest, shouldn't people listen to him?
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Future Islands On World Cafe
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Future Islands' newest album, Singles, saw the band reaching a much larger audience, thanks in part to its meme-creating network television debut on The Late Show With David Letterman. The album's release comes several years after Future Islands relocated from North Carolina to Baltimore, and on today's Sense Of Place, the band's members discuss their new hometown and the welcoming, supportive music scene they've found there.
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According to writer Thomas Friedman, America needs a national science project. The goal? To make America energy independent in 10 years. Friedman talks about his new book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Guest: Thomas Friedman, "Foreign Affairs" columnist, New York Times. Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, 2002. Author, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, The Lexus and the Olive Tree
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According to this poet, "The snark was a boojum, you see"
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Lewis Carroll and The Hunting of the Snark | The Public Domain ... Feb 22, 2011 ... In 1876 Lewis Carroll published by far his longest poem a ... solitary line of verse came into his head For the Snark was a Boojum, you see!
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William Safire, speechwriter and columnist, dies - NY Daily News Sep 27, 2009 ... Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White ... Get Our Newsletter A daily blend of the most need-to-know Daily News ... William Safire, conservative columnist and former Nixon speechwriter, dead at 79 ... Safire never pulled punches regardless of his target's political...
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In 1922 this Illinois poet published a collection called "Slabs of the Sunburnt West"
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Carl Sandburg | Carl Sandburg Biography and Timeline | American ... Aug 18, 2012 ... Poetry collections including Chicago Poems; Good Morning, America; and The People, Yes. ... 1878 Carl Sandburg is born on January 6 in Galesburg, Illinois. ... He is baptized Carl August, but in elementary school he asks to be called Charles, ... 1922 Slabs of the Sunburnt West is published, as well as...
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William Safire, speechwriter and columnist, dies - NY Daily News Sep 27, 2009 ... Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White ... Get Our Newsletter A daily blend of the most need-to-know Daily News ... William Safire, conservative columnist and former Nixon speechwriter, dead at 79 ... Safire never pulled punches regardless of his target's political...
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The Joe Schmidt interview: 'Hopefully I haven’t outstayed my welcome'
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Nat Torkington has been active in web development since the early days of the web. He wrote the bestselling Perl Cookbook, and chaired conferences for O'Reilly Media for a decade. During his time at O'Reilly Media, Nat was an editor and then became a trend-spotter for the O'Reilly Radar group, identifying the topics to build events and books around. He has worked in areas as diverse as networking, publishing, science, edtech, and NLP. He now lives in New Zealand, where he runs Kiwi Foo Camp and helps startups grow.
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Miami Finance Problems
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NPR's Cheryl Devall reports there are more financial troubles for Miami. The new developments center on the city's port. The port faces a 20-million dollar debt and officials have been accused of spending public money on things like Super Bowl tickets, luxury cars and political contributions. The port's director has resigned effective July 31st.
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JAMES FALLOWS is the Washington editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." He has a new book, "Looking at the Sun," (Pantheon) to be published in February about the Asian economy. He's written a three part series of articles drawn from the book in the Atlantic (the last one appears in the Jan 94 issue).
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Martin Talks With Lois Reitzes
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Martin talks with Lois Reitzes (REYET-zess), longtime music director of Atlanta public radio station WABE, about the Atlanta arts community's response to the Olympics and the Cultural Olympiad.
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Robert Siegel and Melissa Block read from listeners' emails. The topics include our Hurricane Katrina coverage, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and hurricane aid from Mexico.
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90.7 WMFE's Intersection
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Intersection is 90.7's news and in-depth conversation program. We talk with political leaders, environmental experts, historians, writers, musicians, and other news makers from around Central Florida. Intersection is where they all come together on 90.7 News. Listen Tuesdays & Fridays at 9 am.
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Topics: a talk radio host is fired after using a racial slur to refer to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and whether drug-free school zone laws really work. Guests: Walter Fields, CEO and publisher of the NorthStar Network; author Yvonne Bynoe; and <em>People</em> magazine writer Bob Meadows.
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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez
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Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts daily interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.
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Robert Siegel and Michele Norris read letters from listeners about a discussion with NFL star Michael Vick.
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Letters: A New Kidney, Neil Young and a Newspaper
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Among the topics: Matt Holzmann's story of the day he finally got a new kidney; Neil Young's protest music; and the old-fashioned -- and highly successful -- <em>Anniston Star</em> newspaper of Anniston, Ala.
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NPR's Liane Hansen reads some letters from our listeners. Among the topics: the attacks on Sen. John Kerry's military record, and the retrospective of composer Elmer Bernstein.
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Remembering Journalist Abe Rosenthal
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NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr remembers his friend and colleague Abe Rosenthal, former executive editor of the <em>New York Times</em> and Pulitzer prize-winning foreign correspondent.
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NPR's Noah Adams talks to Web logger Glenn Reynolds about the ban on personal online diaries for Olympic athletes.
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'New Yorker' Climate Change Series
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Alex Chadwick talks with NPR science correspondent Richard Harris about questions raised and conclusions offered in a <EM>New Yorker</EM> magazine series on global warming.
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week: Wanda Sykes Loves Stand-Up: That's Where 'I Can Be Free,' She Says: Before Sykes became a comic, she worked at the National Security Agency, where she had top security clearance. Now she takes on the president in her Emmy-nominated Netflix special Not Normal. 'Cities Are Resilient,' Says Baltimore Crime Novelist Laura Lippman: Lippman's latest novel, Lady in the Lake, was inspired by two real-life Baltimore disappearances in the 1960s. She says Trump's recent tweets show a "basic disrespect" for the residents of her city. You can listen to the original interviews here: Wanda Sykes Loves Stand-Up: That's Where 'I Can Be Free,' She Says 'Cities Are Resilient,' Says Baltimore Crime Novelist Laura Lippman
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Interview With Tom Daschle
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Linda talks to Senate Minority Leader, Democrat Tom Daschle of South Dakota about the trial and the president's acquittal.
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Last month, <em>Tell Me More</em> used audio of storyteller Mike Daisey, who had been featured in a public radio story on the show <em>This American Life</em>. Last Friday, <em>This American Life</em> host Ira Glass retracted the story, saying it "contained numerous fabrications." Host Michel Martin notes the use of part of the retracted story on Tell Me More.
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Journalist KEN AULETTA (AWE-letta)
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Journalist KEN AULETTA (AWE-letta). He wrote the book Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way (Random House). AULETTA is currently a writer for the New Yorker. He will talk about the new telecommunications bill which the Senate just approved.
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<em>Morning Edition</em> is checking in with some of the voters who participated in our Divided States series. We hear now from Ennis Tait, a pastor from Ohio, who supported Hillary Clinton.
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kor_Hang
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Jon Stewart the co-producer and anchorman of "The DailyShow with Jon Stewart"
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Jon Stewart is the co-producer and anchorman of Comedy Central's "<EM>The DailyShow with Jon Stewart.</EM>" The show is an alternative take on the news. Previously Stewart had a part on HBO's "<EM>The Larry Sanders Show</EM>." He also hosted Comedy Central's "<EM>Short Attention Span Theater</EM>."
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Well, that's it for me this week. Your blog host next week will be a professional: JJ Sutherland. And that's a good thing. I've already written about my kids, my husband and my summer vacation. I'd have to talk about my mother-in-law next, if I continued. Thanks for all your great comments. Oh, and on the spinach story? We ended up with a report from correspondent John McChesney on All Things Considered. The message, still, is this: Until officials figure out the source of the problem, don't eat any raw, bagged spinach. Grocery stores across the country are pulling it off the shelves.
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50 Years Of NPR: Radio Legends Susan Stamberg & Bill Siemering
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NPR's program, 'All Things Considered' debuted on May 3, 1971. 'ATC' creator Bill Siemering and former co-host Susan Stamberg look back on the early years of the network, NPR's mission, and Stamberg's pioneering role as the first woman to anchor a daily national news program in America.
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Michele Norris and Robert Siegel read from this week's e-mails from listeners. Our mail includes calls for more coverage of presidential candidates' ideas and platforms and less coverage of the Writer's Guild strike. There are also comments on our profiles of General Motors' newest hydrogen car, the "bear whisperer," and the man some call the world's best rock climber.
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JAMES FALLOWS is the Washington editor of "The Atlantic Monthly
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JAMES FALLOWS is the Washington editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." He has a new book, "Looking at the Sun," (Pantheon) to be published in February about the Asian economy. He's written a three part series of articles drawn from the book in the Atlantic (the last one appears in the Jan 94 issue).
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The<em> Moneyball</em> author is writing a series of articles for <em>Vanity Fair</em> about President Trump's picks to lead federal agencies — and the consequences of those appointments.
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Revisiting the 'Report' and Its Author
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We rebroadcast our conversation from earlier this month with one of fake news' most indelible personalities: Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert. This interview originally aired Oct. 9, 2007. Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report talks about his book I Am America (And So Can You!) and his successful television show. The former correspondent and contributor to The Daily Show created his own Emmy-nominated late-night show to parody Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor. In I Am America, Colbert targets race, religion, sports and the American family as well as more mundane topics like breakfast cereal.
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<EM>Weekend Edition Sunday</EM> essayist Andy Borowitz acknowledges <EM>Time</EM> magazine's naming of three whistleblowers as persons of the year by providing a list of his own.
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NPR: 10-02-2007 Fresh Air
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Stories: 1) Seymour Hersh: U.S. Making Iraq About Iran 2) Sonnenfeld and Fuller, 'Pushing Daisies' on ABC 3) Ann Patchett's 'Run' Toward Belonging
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Author Toni Morrison reflects on her career and her hope for a future in which "fantastic books by Black writers" are plentiful and widely read. This story originally aired on Voices in the Wind on October 23, 1977. 'Voices in the Wind' is archived at the Library of Congress and NPR. The digital preservation of this audio has been made possible in part by the National Recording Preservation Foundation.
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Glenn O'Brien - The Style Guy
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Glenn O'Brien is the author of How To Be A Man, and the Style Guy columnist for GQ. He also created and hosted TV Party, the seminal new wave television show, and edited Interview magazine.
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<em>News & Notes</em> Web producer Geoffrey Bennett and Tony Cox talk about the growing trend of micro-blogging, Facebook's about-face on user privacy, and response to the week's news on our blog.
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kor_Hang
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KPCW Local News Hour
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NPR's national show Morning Edition is interspersed with Park City's only daily local news source, live every weekday morning from 6 to 8 AM. Whether recapping the previous night's School Board meeting, informing listeners on a recent development on a government project or a featured story on a piece of local color, veteran news anchor Leslie Thatcher delivers the news that makes Park City a community.The Local News Hour follows Morning Edition and is KPCW's flagship news program, also hosted by KPCW News Director Leslie Thatcher, every weekday from 8 to 9 AM. Get the information directly from the people who are making the news with live interviews.
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Midmorning's home repair expert joins Kerri Miller to talk about ways to keep your house warm, and keep those utility bills down. She'll also talk with an expert on indoor air quality and mold.
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Commentary: New York Stories
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There's a cliche about how many stories there are in New York. But cliche or not, commentator Paul Ford would like to add a few more. Paul Ford writes online at FTrain.com.
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We help our listeners understand how race and and its evil play cousin, racism, affect our friendships. And we're doing it with help from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money podcast. Be a good friend and listen.
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Martha Washington's Letters Reveal A Vital Partner To George
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Researchers are tracking down a new stash of letters from Martha Washington. Edward Lengel of The Washington Papers project at the University of Virginia tells NPR's Rachel Martin what's in the trove.
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<em>Washington Post</em> columnist Catherine Rampell tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro what she's looking for as she gauges the health of the American economy.
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Jessica Lynch's Role in Media Frenzy
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NPR's Mike Pesca talks with <EM>New York Magazine</EM> writer Michael Wolff about the media circus surrounding Iraq POW Jessica Lynch, and what role she may play in perpetuating it.
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Listeners respond to Melissa Block's profile of the New Seasons Market in Portland, Ore. They also point to an error in a correction on Friday's show, and respond to last month's interview of shofar player Jenny Litvack, goddaughter of jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie. Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' e-mails.
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Observations 9-15-06
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Guests Merrill Markoe and Caleb Crain. Merrill Markoe is the author of the novel "Walking in Circles Before Lying Down," and was co-creator of "Late Night with David Letterman." Caleb Crain writes for the New Yorker; we speak with him about the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and 40s.
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LETTERS AND COMMENTS: Opinions on this week's programming from PT listeners.
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Remembering Nature Writer Barry Lopez
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We remember the award-winning writer Barry Lopez, who wrote evocatively about nature, and in turn shed light on truths about the human experience. He died Christmas day at the age of 75. Lopez lived among the Arctic's Inuit people for five years, and raised a wolf pup for his book about the relationship between wolves and men. <br/><br/>Also, Kevin Whitehead reviews the new album by Chicago bassist Joshua Abrams. Then David Bianculli remarks on the live TV coverage of the insurrection led by Trump rioters on Wednesday.
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Often, life at the top can't be fully prepared for. David Gardner talks with Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorch, co-author of the article "7 Surprises for New CEOs," which appeared in <EM>The Harvard Business Review</EM>.
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Where are the Women?
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NPR is often regarded — and certainly regards itself — as a leader in the diversity of voices and opinions it puts on air. It's known for compelling story-telling that regularly wins prestigious journalism awards. But when it comes to female voices from outside NPR, the network is not as diverse on air as it would like to think. NPR needs to try harder to find more female sources and commentators. I will say upfront that NPR is and has been an industry leader with female correspondents and hosts. Three out of the five hosts of its biggest shows — Morning Edition and All Things Considered — are women. The CEO and the head of the news department are women, as are many other top executives throughout the company. But what about commentators and news sources? My office researched the number of female commentators who appear on air regularly, along with the number of females who are interviewed or quoted in stories on ME, ATC and the weekend counterparts. The news is not encouraging, though NPR is trying to do something about it. Admittedly, the relative lack of female voices reflects the broader world. The fact remains that even in the fifth decade after the feminist revolution; men are still largely in charge in government at all levels, in corporations and nearly all other aspects of society. That means, by default, there are going to be more male than female news sources. ON-AIR FEMALE COMMENTATORSBut NPR does have a choice when it comes to the weekly commentators selected by the shows. Men are favored over women, by far. With the aid of NPR librarian Hannah Sommers, we compiled a list of regular commentators, who are not NPR employees but are paid to appear on air. There are 12 outside commentators who appeared at least 20 times in the last 15 months. The only woman is former NPR staffer, Cokie Roberts (51 times), who is on ME most Mondays talking politics. Otherwise, males dominate, especially on subjects of sports, politics and the economy. On ME, the numbers are: sports commentators Frank Deford (61) and John Feinstein (27), Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel (46), and Los Angeles Times movie reviewer Kenneth Turan (42) — all in the last 15 months. On ATC, there's sports commentator Stefan Fatsis (46), technology guru Omar Gallaga (47), and book reviewer Alan Cheuse (48-- 6 were on Weekend ATC). On Fridays, columnists E.J. Dionne (58) and David Brooks (53) talk politics. On Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon regularly chats about sports with ESPN's Howard Bryant (34). On Weekend All Things Considered, host Guy Raz regularly discusses the world with journalist James Fallows (25). ON-AIR FEMALE SOURCESWe also looked at the number of people from outside NPR who were interviewed by NPR news shows, or whose voices appeared in reporters' stories. For this analysis, we examined 104 shows, using a 'constructed week'* sampling technique from April 13, 2009 to Jan. 9, 2010. Those figures are equally discouraging. NPR listeners heard 2,502 male sources and 877 female sources on the shows we sampled. In other words, only 26 percent of the 3,379 voices were female, while 74 percent were male. [See chart.] The news is much better when you look at just the gender breakdown of voices of NPR reporters and hosts. It's nearly 50-50, with the exception of Weekend All Things Considered, which has only a male host. [See chart.] Even when you combined the two groups — NPR staffers and non-NPR voices — the male-female imbalance is still noteworthy, with the exception of Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday, which have an equal proportion of male-female voices. [See chart.] "The ratio of male-female sources you found is dismal," said Sheila Gibbons, who edits the Media Report to Women, which covers issues on women and media. "For listeners it suggests that there aren't many women with something important to say about the key issues of the day. It follows that they don't have a very big roles in shaping what those issues are, or making policy to deal with them. That's nonsense, of course." I also ran the data past Jehmu Greene, president of the Women's Media Center, which works to get more women sources in the media. "If you look at hosts and correspondents, NPR is a leader when it comes to making sure there is gender equality," said Greene. "Many times we hear there are no women, or there are more men to tap into as experts," said Greene. "I think that's a mindset that is common in the media. Clearly, it is worth it to do the extra work for the story to get the female perspective which many times can be different, unique and necessary." ME host Steve Inskeep took issue with the data because it counts all sources as the same — without considering the amount of time each voice is on air. He wondered, for example, if it should be counted as equal when celebrity journalist Tina Brown is on for 8 minutes and the president is on for 45 seconds? Inskeep also noted that President Obama, by himself, represented a large p
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Regular commentator Connie Rice explains why men are the weaker sex.
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'An Almost Volcanic Life Force': Writer Recalls Anthony Bourdain
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Steve Inskeep speaks with Patrick Radden Keefe of <em>The New Yorker</em> magazine, who wrote a profile of Anthony Bourdain in 2017. Bourdain's employer, CNN, reports the celebrity chef is dead at 61.
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TV critic David Bianculli reviews Discovery's mini-series, <em>Manhunt: Unabomber</em>; IFC's sketch comedy series, <em>Baroness von Sketch Show;</em><em> </em>and TBS' comedy anthology series, <em>Guest Book.</em>
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A Farewell To Foremother Of TV Journalism: Barbara Walter Retires
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Barbara Walters retires from daily television work on the May 15 edition of The View. As NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans notes, Walters may just be the real parent of today's TV journalists, who often meld the worlds of entertainment and news.
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Vicki Croke (@TheWildLifeWBUR), host of WBUR’s The Wild Life blog, joins Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd to discuss the significance of China’s announcement on Friday that it will shut down its ivory market — the world’s largest — by the end of this year.
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How Bill Nye Became the 'Science Guy'
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Sam revisits his 2017 chat with Bill Nye the Science Guy. They discuss climate change (and climate change deniers), how Nye got his start in TV, and whether fame has changed him, for better or worse.
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This week on Pop Culture Happy Hour: A look at comedian Patton Oswalt's essay at Wired, called "Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time To Die." Linda, Stephen, Trey, Glen use Oswalt's argument as a jumping-off point to talk about how it is and isn't different now to be invested (and overinvested) in the culture you love, and ponder how what's been lost might be compensated for by what's been gained. Then Pop Culture New Year's Resolutions and Things Making Us Happy.
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Rupert Murdoch Begins To Post Twitter Messages
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A few days ago, Rupert Murdoch began posting comments on the microblog service. Twitter and News Corp. have both confirmed the comments are Murdoch's.
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For Monday's Unger Report, a modest proposal for a new television network: Brian Unger says it's time to start MCTV -- Mea Culpa Television, a channel devoted entirely to saying "I'm sorry."
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Television anchor and author ROBERT MACNEIL
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Television anchor and author ROBERT MACNEIL. He steps down tonight as co-anchor of the PBS news show The MacNEIL/Lehrer NewsHour. Terry talked with him this week. We'll hear that interview and one from 1985. His books include, Wordstruck, a memoir that explores the roots of MacNeil's fascination with language and the best-selling The Story of English.
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How are the presidential candidates handling what happened in Orlando? Steve Inskeep and David Greene talk to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts and Denise McAllister of <em>The Federalist</em>.
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Oprah Winfrey's 'O' Magazine Tops 'Adweek' Hot List
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<EM>Adweek</EM> magazine ranks the 10 most successful magazines, based on such factors as ad page and revenue gains, increased circulation and performance against direct competition. <EM>O, The Oprah Magazine</EM> tops the Hot List for 2003. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Sid Holt, editor-in-chief of <EM>Adweek</EM>.
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We take a look at the latest on the situation in Venezuela as Vice President Pence is in Colombia to meet with Latin American leaders. Pope Francis calls for an "all-out battle" against clergy sex abuse. Also, <em>Green Book</em> wins the Oscar for best picture. What else happened at the host-less awards show?
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Tim Brookes: How My Daughter Sees the World
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Essayist Tim Brookes talks about his amazement with his 9-year-old daughter's knowledge and awareness of everything around her.
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E.J. Dionne, a columnist for <em>The Washington Post</em> and David Brooks, a columnist for the <em>New York Times</em> talk with Melissa Block about the political flap over the port deal with Dubai, the leaked videoconference tape of the president before Hurricane Katrina, and recent polls.
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Morning Edition In Its 20th Year
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Morning Edition begins its 20th year today. For the next 12 months, the show will periodically revisit important and interesting stories that happened over the past two decades. NPR's Renee Montagne starts the series with a report on how technology has changed since 1978. For example, there were no cellular phones, no fax machines, no ATM's, no personal computers and no Internet.
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Last month, <em>Tell Me More</em> used audio of storyteller Mike Daisey, who had been featured in a public radio story on the show <em>This American Life</em>. Last Friday, <em>This American Life</em> host Ira Glass retracted the story, saying it "contained numerous fabrications." Host Michel Martin notes the use of part of the retracted story on Tell Me More.
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NPR Intern Inspired by 'Reality'
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Reality television shows are often blamed for rewarding bad behavior, and encouraging viewers to laugh at other people's problems. But writer and former NPR intern Tamika Smith says a reality show inspired her to reconnect with her alcoholic grandfather.
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Last month, <em>Tell Me More</em> used audio of storyteller Mike Daisey, who had been featured in a public radio story on the show <em>This American Life</em>. Last Friday, <em>This American Life</em> host Ira Glass retracted the story, saying it "contained numerous fabrications." Host Michel Martin notes the use of part of the retracted story on Tell Me More.
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Gay Rights, Astronauts, And The Music Of Nataly Dawn
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In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered, gay rights, astronauts, and the music of Nataly Dawn.
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NPR's Noah Adams talks to Web logger Glenn Reynolds about the ban on personal online diaries for Olympic athletes.
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Fresh Air Weekend: China's 'Surveillance State'; Understanding The Human Voice
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week: Facial Recognition And Beyond: Journalist Ventures Inside China's 'Surveillance State': Kai Strittmatter says the Chinese state has amassed an astonishing amount of data about its citizens, which it uses to punish people for even minor offenses. His new book is We Have Been Harmonized. 'The Little Things' Is A Star-Studded, Old-School Serial Killer Thriller: Set in the 1990s, this slickly made drama starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto may look like a retread, but it feels more like a weirdly enveloping trip down memory lane. A Writer Lost His Singing Voice, Then Discovered The 'Gymnastics' Of Speech: New Yorker writer John Colapinto developed a vocal polyp when he began "wailing" with a rock group without proper warmup. His new book explores the human voice's physicality, frailty and feats . You can listen to the original interviews and review here: Facial Recognition And Beyond: Journalist Ventures Inside China's 'Surveillance State' 'The Little Things' Is A Star-Studded, Old-School Serial Killer Thriller A Writer Lost His Singing Voice, Then Discovered The 'Gymnastics' Of Speech
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NPR's Melissa Block talks to Fernand Amandi about how his research firm was able to conduct a secret, comprehensive poll in Cuba without the Cuban government knowing about it.
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Fresh Air Remembers Literary Biographer Justin Kaplan
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Kaplan died Sunday at 88. His biography of Mark Twain won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He also edited two editions of <em>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</em>. Kaplan spoke to Fresh Air in 1992.
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When President Obama was campaigning for the job, he promised to change the culture of lobbying and influence peddling in Washington. Bob Kaiser is a senior correspondent with <em>The Washington Post</em> and the author of the book <em>So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government.</em> He talks with Renee Montagne about the president's efforts to end influence peddling.
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U.S. Figure Skaters Are Underdogs In These Games
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The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, are just days away, and some 230 athletes will be representing the United States. Representing team NPR is Sonari Glinton. He gives NPR's Scott Simon a rundown of who to watch on the ice.
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Hidden Kitchens — we aren't the first project to look for them. Our search for the kitchen legacies of this country has uncovered rituals, recipes and now, an archive. Producer Jamie York and The Kitchen Sisters followed a listener's call to the Library of Congress and beyond — and discovered "America Eats." Story Notes During our planning process, we read Mark Kurlansky's book Choice Cuts: Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History and came across the following passage: "In the 1930s Nelson Algren, a young fiction writer who in 1949 would win the first National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm, joined the Illinois Writers Project, part of the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA)." It set us on the course of this story and led us to the Library of Congress, where some of the "America Eats" archives are housed. This remarkable WPA project chronicling American "foodways" in the 1930s has never been published. The parallels between this project and ours astounded us. Each region had its own "America Eats" team. Their writings, photographs and even some scripts for a proposed weekly radio program are tucked away in collections around the country — at the New York Municipal Archive, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the University of Iowa Library, and the State Library and Archives of Florida, as well as at the Library of Congress. Independent producer Jamie York traveled to Florida to interview one of the last living writers on the project, Stetson Kennedy, whose photographs you can view in our photo gallery on this page, and online at The Library of Congress. -- The Kitchen Sisters
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Re-Broadcast: Talking to Les Nubians
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In a special encore re-broadcast of a report that aired in 2003, NPR's Tony Cox sits down with the French-African singing duo Les Nubians.
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<em>News & Notes</em> Web producer Geoffrey Bennett talks with Farai Chideya about the stories making the rounds on the show's blog, "News & Views," including reaction to the recent ouster of two black CEOs, the TV writers strike, and the launch of the new Web site, NPR Music.
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NPR Listeners Reflect On All They've Gained In A Dark Year
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2020 has been filled with loss, but also with silver linings. We hear from some of our listeners about what you have gained in this difficult year.
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Guests: Adam Gopnik <LEM>New Yorker Correspondent</LEM> <LEM>Author, <EM>From Paris to the Moon</EM> (Random House)</LEM> Paris has long held the distinction of being the capital of culture and beauty even though the charm of Parisians can be elusive to some Americans. For decades, the <EM>New Yorker Magazine</EM> has sent writers to the City of Light and for Adam Gopnik, in 1995 -- his turn had come. Join guest host Melinda Penkava for a conversation with writer Adam Gopnik about being an American in Paris, on the next<EM> Talk of the Nation</EM> from NPR news.
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2000:A TV host & media personality
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Program Anchors, Reporters & Personalities - Bloomberg Bryan Curtis is a journalist and media executive who has resided in Hong Kong .... Guy Johnson is a London-based anchor on Bloomberg Television and host of...
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TIME MAGAZINE PERSON MACHINE of the YEAR for 1982 The ... Jan 4, 1983 ... TIME has decided that 1982 is the year of the computer. It would have ... for 1982, the greatest influence for good or evil, is not a man at all.
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On April 3, 1936 a nation listened as Gabriel Heatter covered this man's execution
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Broadcasting - American Radio History April 3, 1972:Our4lstYear:$1.00. WAN. ... Westinghouse, Nation- wide, RKO General and ... a polished man with relevant experience. See . ... The Station People Listen To- ..... George Reading has covered news in Boston, New York, .... pioneer newscaster Gabriel Heatter, 81, ... He gained prominence in 1936 with his.
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The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor Reviews, Discussion ... O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James M. Curley, portrays its Irish-American political boss as a ..... It is commonly said that this book was based on the life of James Michael Curley...
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He provided live coverage of the Summer Olympics from Atlanta, while brother Bryant covered events in Nagano
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Practiced Eye Gives CBS Team Confidence - latimes Feb 1, 1998 ... The 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta on NBC averaged a 21.6, and the previous high for a Winter Olympics was a 23.6 on ABC in 1980, when the United States ... Industry experts are estimating that CBS' profits for its Nagano coverage may ... Greg Gumbel, Bryant's brother, was the prime-time host from...
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Jeopary Questions page 1806 - AMERICAN AUTHORS - TriviaBistro ... AMERICAN AUTHORS: As a war correspondant, this Tarzan creator witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor .... ALL OVER EUROPE: We have a "hunch" you can visit this author's home at No. 6 Place des Vosges in Paris.
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To expect Daub to acknowledge critiques of tech thinking by women is to expect that he include not the most feminist or woke critiques of those philosophies, but the most trenchant ones. Why he include has been used? Under what circumstances is this allowed? What is the grammar behind it? Source:
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Why is this sentence correct? She suggested that he go to the cinema. I would definitely use goes instead of go.
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The world is frozen as the long-term result of an invention that allows the conversion of heat to electricity. Thew few survivors each live alone; there aren't as many women as men, so the main character in this story has what amounts to a time-share arrangement with a woman. When he meets her for his year with her, she has a remarkable story to tell about a visitor from space, an alien who has come to warn the inhabitants of Earth to stop using the energy convertor. The planet's libido, he says, is nearly 1. "What?" he asks. "You mean its albedo?" Yes, she replies, it might have been something like that. Where is the alien now, he asks. In the freezer, she says. A few flakes of oxygen fall from the sky. I read this story in English in an anthology published by the 60s or 70s.
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More than a decade ago, I read a short story about a small group of people at the end of the world. The story was premised on some sort of mass-produced device which took ambient heat and turned it into power. The devices had been overused, and now the world was freezing. I think the people were essentially bandits; the main character may have been a woman who lured men to her house and killed them for their body heat? There was also a strong implication that one person she had done this to was an alien who had come to warn that the devices were destroying the world. I think the story was in a hardbound collection, and I think the collection was from the late 70's or very early 80's. (Calling it a "short story" is just meant to distinguish it from a full novel — it may have actually been a novella or similar.)
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The new Top-Bar does not show reputation changes from Area 51.
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How many Pulitzer Prize laureates attended the Medill School of Journalism?
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The Medill School of Journalism has produced notable journalists and political activists including 38 Pulitzer Prize laureates. National correspondents, reporters and columnists such as The New York Times's Elisabeth Bumiller, David Barstow, Dean Murphy, and Vincent Laforet, USA Today's Gary Levin, Susan Page and Christine Brennan, NBC correspondent Kelly O'Donnell, CBS correspondent Richard Threlkeld, CNN correspondent Nicole Lapin and former CNN and current Al Jazeera America anchor Joie Chen, and ESPN personalities Rachel Nichols, Michael Wilbon, Mike Greenberg, Steve Weissman, J. A. Adande, and Kevin Blackistone. The bestselling author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R. R. Martin, earned a B.S. and M.S. from Medill. Elisabeth Leamy is the recipient of 13 Emmy awards and 4 Edward R. Murrow Awards.
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One of the more prominent contestants this year was Chris Medina, whose story of caring for his brain-damaged fiancée received widespread coverage. Medina was cut in the Top 40 round. Casey Abrams, who suffers from ulcerative colitis, was hospitalized twice and missed the Top 13 result show. The judges used their one save on Abrams on the Top 11, and as a result this was the first season that 11 finalists went on tour instead of 10. In the following week, Naima Adedapo and Thia Megia were both eliminated the following week.
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What is the short story about the science fiction writer who becomes trapped in his story?
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Short story about a group of sci-fi writers sitting around discussing their profession
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Short story about a group of sci-fi writers sitting around discussing their profession
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Have fun, I have someone in mind but will wait for the answers.. :)
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Johnathan Edwards of Crossing Over.\n\nAn obvious cold reader.
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the morning blend hosts
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Milwaukee Talks: Morning Blend host Tiffany Ogle. Published May 16, 2014 at 5:33 a.m. The positive and caffeinated person you see weekday mornings on The Morning Blend is not an act for Tiffany Ogle. Always an optimist, there's no alter ego at all, says the Minnesota native with the most diverse resumé you'll ever see.
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Programming Schedule. First Look delivers everything you need to know to start your day: News, business, sports, weather, pop culture. Morning Joe, hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, highlights the day's top newsmakers and stories. Get MSNBC's take on the latest political news. Breaking news, interviews with newsmakers, and analysis that cuts through the noise. MSNBC's mid-day news, hosted by Craig Melvin.
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who is joe nation
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Joe Nation. About. Joe Nation is a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Stanford University. He directs the graduate student Practicum in public policy and teaches policy courses on climate change, health care, and California state issues.
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Joe Nation and Jessica Lizama got engaged on 24th Dec 2015. view relationship. Joe Nation has had no other relationships that we know of. Joe Nation has been in 2 on-screen matchups, including Brittani Taylor in Shane Dawson TV (2008) and Shane Dawson in Shane Dawson TV (2008). Help us build our profile of Joe Nation! Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions.
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who is the ceo of nbc/msnbc
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March 3, 2015 | 06:56AM PT. Former NBC News president Andrew Lack is in negotiations to return to a top post at NBCUniversalâs news division in a management shakeup following the debacle that led to the suspension of âNightly Newsâ anchor Brian Williams and other recent missteps.
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âWe are delighted to welcome Sheinelle Jones to NBC News,â said NBC News President Deborah Turness. âShe is an experienced journalist, a fantastic reporter and a dynamic interviewer who will bring so much to Weekend TODAY and the entire NBC News team.â. The move comes a week after NBC named Jenna Wolfe the âTodayâ Showâs Fitness and Lifestyle correspondent, opening up the new anchor position during the weekends.
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who wrote fire and fury
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At this point, youâve likely heard the name âMichael Wolffâ more than a few times this week. Heâs the guy who wrote Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House. The book â which was released today, January 5th â is currently flying off shelves, which may have you wondering: Who is Donald Trump expert Michael Wolff, and how did he manage to pull this off?
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This story is adapted from Michael Wolffâs book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, published this month by Henry Holt & Co. on January 9. Wolff, who chronicles the administration from Election Day to this past October, conducted conversations and interviews over a period of 18 months with the president, most members of his senior staff, and many people to whom they in turn spoke.
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host for speak for yourself jason whitlock
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Report: Colin Cowherd And Jason Whitlock To Host All Takes Matter At Fox Sports. Going by the ratings, no one wants to see scuttling opinion-haver Colin Cowherd and motivational speaker Jason Whitlock on their televisions. Despite this, they will be the new hosts of a Fox Sports show tentatively titled Speak For Yourself. (Thereâs still time for Fox to take up our suggestion to just cut to the chase and call it All Takes Matter; they can have that one for free.)
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View phone, address history, email, public records for the 150+ people named Robert Whitlock. Whitepages is the most trusted directory.
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who is bob schieffer
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Bob Schieffer is the author of four books, including Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast (2004) and Bob Schieffer's America (2008). He is married to Patricia Penrose Bishop; they have two daughters.
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He then returned to his position as CBS's chief Washington correspondent and has continued to serve as the host of Face the Nation. During his career, Bob Schieffer won six Emmy awards and was named Broadcaster of the Year in 2002 by the National Press Foundation.
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what radio network is bill o'reilly on
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The Radio Factor. The Radio Factor is a US nationally syndicated talk radio program, which aired from 2002 to 2009 and was hosted mainly by Bill O'Reilly. 1 Show.
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Bill O'Reilly is the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in the country. He is the author of many number-one bestselling books, including Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, and Killing Patton. Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history.
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who is laura harr
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3-Day Forecast. Laura Harris. Laura Harris is an Emmy Award winning journalist who joined the ABC Action News team in July 2012 from the ABC affiliate in Charleston, SC where she was the morning anchor.
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12/23/2014. 2. Presenter. Laura is a nationally-recognized home health and. hospice industry speaker, thought leader, and. trainer on quality and regulatory compliance.
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As founder of the TMZ celebrity news empire, Harvey Levin spends each day dishing about other people. But not so much about himself. The managing editor of TMZ.com and executive producer and host of TMZ on TV does get personal about growing up gay in an essay published today by the Los Angeles LGBT Center. âWhen I was a teenager, I found myself in a profound internal struggle â what I perceived as a mandate to live a âstraightâ life, despite contrary feelings that were welling to the surface,â Levin writes in The Centerâs Vanguard Now.
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TMZ has finally uncovered the connection between the HGTV show Design on a Dime and hardcore pornography -- a host who really enjoys interiors.
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Live blog and video of the Federal Reserve decision and Janet Yellen press conference. March 18, 2015, 1:15 PM ET. Follow along as MarketWatch covers the Federal Reserve decision, the dot plot and ensuing press conference with Janet Yellen. Rex Nutting and Bill Watts will live-blog the proceedings, with video from the press conference and tweets from prominent Fed watchers.
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It's everything sports, all day long during WFAN Day at Mohegan Sun. On Friday, May 15th, catch your favorite sports talk shows broadcasting live from the Wolf Den starting with Boomer & Carton at 6:00am, followed by Joe and Evan at 10:00am and finishing strong with Mike Francesa at 1:00pm. 1 WFAN Day. 2 at Wolf Den.
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Programming Schedule. First Look delivers everything you need to know to start your day: News, business, sports, weather, pop culture. Morning Joe, hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, highlights the day's top newsmakers and stories. Get MSNBC's take on the latest political news. Breaking news, interviews with newsmakers, and analysis that cuts through the noise. MSNBC's mid-day news, hosted by Craig Melvin.
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Co-host, 'Morning Joe'. Below: Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) is the host of MSNBCâs âMorning Joe,â the show Time Magazine calls ârevolutionaryâ and The New York Times ranked as the top news program of 2008. In April 2011, Scarborough was named to the prestigious âTime 100â list of the worldâs most influential people.
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Michael Wolff, an American author, essayist and journalist, has written Fire and Fury, a book that portrays a chaotic initial year for the presidency of Donald Trump. What's his background? Michael Wolff Age: 64 Early life: Wolff was born in New Jersey to a father who worked in advertising and a mother who was a newspaper reporter. He attended Columbia University in New York and worked as a copy boy at The New York Times while in school. The journalist: Wolff published his first book of essays, White Kids, in 1979.
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MICHAEL BIO. Michael Henderson is a Corporate Anthropologist, who has a degree in Anthropology and over 25 year's experience in observing advising and educating organisations on how to enhance their workplace culture for greater levels of performance, staff fulfilment and customer delight.
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Alisyn Camerota is a CNN anchor and co-host on CNN's morning show New Day with Chris Cuomo. Alisyn Camerota is a CNN anchor and co-host on CNN's morning show New Day with Chris Cuomo. Breaking News
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Julie Martin is now a fill-in meteorologist for The Weather Channel & CNN. On February 20th, Dr. Erika Navarro made her debut on The Weather Channel co-hosting 'Weather Center Live' 11a-3pm w/ Mark Elliot and Alex Wallace. On Friday February 24th, Anaridis Rodriguez announced her departure from The Weather Channel.
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Read More. Sean Hannity is a multimedia superstar, spending four hours a day, every day, reaching out to millions of Americans on radio, television and the internet. Nationally syndicated by Premiere Networks, The Sean Hannity Show has more than 500 affiliates nationwide.annity has been the recipient of two Marconi Awards for Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year, and is a three-time consecutive winner of the Radio & Records National Talk Show Host of The Year award.
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Information. Sean Hannity is a leading multimedia conservative talk host spending four hours a day reaching out to millions of Americans on radio, television and the internet.annity has been the recipient of 2 Marconi Awards for Nationally Syndicated Radio Host of the Year and is a three-time consecutive winner of the Radio & Records National Talk Show Host of The Year Awards.
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New Jersey governor Chris Christie could be considered to replace New York sports talk radio host Mike Francesa, according to NorthJersey.com. I would certainly at least want to consider him, CBS Radio New York vice president Mark Chernoff said. If he's interested and we're interested, it's worth pursuing.
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The son of longtime Boston Globe writer Will McDonough, he has worked NFL games on ESPN Radio in recent years, in addition to his college football and college basketball work on the network. Tirico left ESPN for a job at NBC after 10 years doing âMonday Night Football.â. âWhen it became apparent Mike would leave, Sean was at the top of our list,â said John Wildhack, ESPN executive vice president of programming and production. âSean is uniquely prepared, given his familyâs history with the NFL.â.
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Summer Science: An Introduction
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David Greene speaks with NPR's Joe Palca about <em>Morning Edition</em>'s upcoming series, "Summer Science."
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Thousands of children from around the world are gathered - in person or on-line - at MIT's Media Lab at a Junior Summit, where the idea is to use technology to change the world. Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR reports from Boston.
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NASA's head of human spaceflight has abruptly resigned just one week before a historic test flight to send astronauts up in a new space capsule developed by the rocket company SpaceX. The unexpected departure of Doug Loverro startled the space community, which has been looking forward to launching astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttles stopped flying in 2011. Loverro, who came to NASA in October 2019, would have presided over the Flight Readiness Review — an important safety check scheduled for later this week to get ready for the planned May 27 launch that will send two NASA astronauts on a brief journey to the International Space Station. Loverro's main work at NASA was to shepherd the agency's ambitious efforts to return astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2024, a goal set by the Trump administration that some have criticized as being unrealistic. Loverro wore a lapel pin that counted down the days left to meet the deadline. "I had truly looked forward to living the next four-plus years with you as we returned Americans to the surface of the moon and prepared for the long journey beyond. But that is not to be," Loverro wrote in a farewell message sent out to NASA employees. In the message, Loverro said he took "a risk" earlier in the year because he judged it necessary to fulfill the mission. "Now, over the balance of time, it is clear that I made a mistake in that choice for which I alone must bear the consequences," he wrote. Reached by NPR, Loverro said, "I think I'm going to let my message speak for itself." A source familiar with the situation would not characterize the "mistake" other than to say that it involved not following rules or regulations and that Loverro had been asked to resign. "I want to be clear that the fact that I am taking this step has nothing to do with your performance as an organization nor with the plans we have placed in motion to fulfill our mission," Loverro wrote to NASA's staffers. "My leaving is because of my personal actions, not anything we have accomplished together." News that Loverro was out erupted on Twitter late in the day with space watchers noting that the timing couldn't be worse for NASA. Loverro's deputy is Ken Bowersox, an astronaut who has worked for both NASA and SpaceX. He served as the acting head of spaceflight after NASA ousted NASA veteran Bill Gerstenmaier last year in another personnel shake-up and is expected to once again step into the role.
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Known for its sometimes irreverent way of illustrating world events, The Economist magazine has over the years been quite creative when it's cover subject was North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (who died Saturday at the age of 69). He was "Rocket man" in 2006. The image showed him blasting off into space. In 2000, Kim Jong Il was waving on the cover beneath a headline that read "Greetings, earthlings." So we probably shouldn't be surprised that the headline this morning on the magazine's Banyan blog is "Farewell, earthlings." (H/T to NPR's Don Gonyea and Wright Bryan.)
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Who was the UN under-secretary in 2011?
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During the five-years from the end of 2004 through 2009, worldwide renewable energy capacity grew at rates of 10–60 percent annually for many technologies. In 2011, UN under-secretary general Achim Steiner said: "The continuing growth in this core segment of the green economy is not happening by chance. The combination of government target-setting, policy support and stimulus funds is underpinning the renewable industry's rise and bringing the much needed transformation of our global energy system within reach." He added: "Renewable energies are expanding both in terms of investment, projects and geographical spread. In doing so, they are making an increasing contribution to combating climate change, countering energy poverty and energy insecurity".
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In editorials published on 29 and 31 July 1914, Wickham Steed, the Times's Chief Editor, argued that the British Empire should enter World War I. On 8 May 1920, also under the editorship of Steed, The Times in an editorial endorsed the anti-Semitic fabrication The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document, and called Jews the world's greatest danger. In the leader entitled "The Jewish Peril, a Disturbing Pamphlet: Call for Inquiry", Steed wrote about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
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Is "Cambridge Scholars" a fake publisher? Considering the fact that I'm a graduate student with a couple of publications, here is the email I've recently received from (I found it in my spam folder): Dear Dr. Robotocist, ------------> (I'm not a doctor!!!) Firstly, please excuse this unsolicited email. I’m sure that like me you receive too many as it is and so I’ll keep it brief. I was recently appointed as Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing with a brief to expand the subject areas in which we publish books. As such I am in the process of developing a collection based in the field of Robotics. As I believe you already have some experience of academic and scientific writing, I wondered whether you would consider us as your publisher should you decide to put ‘pen to paper’ and write a book at some point in the future? We are also developing Editorial Advisory Groups to help ensure that we only publish high quality texts. If this is something that you would like to become involved in, please do let me know. As I promised, I have kept this message short, but would be delighted to talk or correspond more if you feel you would like to explore possibilities. Kind regards, Helen Edwards Commissioning Assistant To me, this is a miserable fake thing, and I just wanted to know whether or not anybody has encountered this organization before.
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How do I identify predatory and low quality journals? With Beall's List gone, how can I tell if a journal is spam? . While the reasons for his doing this are not yet public, this is a real loss of a valuable service. Does anyone know of similar services available to the general public? Edit: is definitely relevant, but that approach is more appropriate for finding top journals rather than identifying bottom ones. I.e., following that method would probably exclude lots of valid, lower-tier journals. Are there any approaches to easily identifying a predatory publisher?
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Are there published predictions that hydrogen could remain metallic at ambient pressure? Below the question there is a that directed me to the BBC News summary . In their attempt to balance the skepticism of this particular reported observation with the potential implications of producing metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, the BBC included some far-reaching possibilities: If that is true - and it is a controversial claim - it fulfills a more than 80-year quest to produce what many have said would be a wonder material. Theory suggests metallic hydrogen could be used to make zero-resistance electrical wiring and super-powerful rocket fuel, among many applications. At the end of the article: "The scepticism here is probably a good thing, in that it will drive many groups towards attempting to reproduce this experiment. This publication will certainly incite the field. Again, if it holds up, this is an exciting result. I think in this case time will tell," he told BBC News. ...referring to Marcus Knudson from Sandia National Laboratories. And Jeffrey McMahon from Washington State University concurred: "With respect to the tiny sample amount: Such experiments are performed in small diamond anvil cells. One challenge would be to make a larger quantity (at once); another, perhaps bigger challenge is to recover even the small sample (ie, remove it from the extreme pressures that it is under in the diamond anvil cell). "Whether the latter is possible is an important open question." Question: Are there published, peer-reviewed predictions that hydrogen could remain metallic at ambient pressure? A link or reference would be appreciated. If it's still in pre-print form (AeXiv) that's OK too. If it's possible, a little help understanding the prediction would be great as well: I know there are many predicted crystalline forms of water ice at elevated pressures and/or reduced temperatures, and many or most of these have been observed, but I think most of them revert once pressure is reduced to ambient. Also the comes to mind. If there is such a prediction of the possibility of hydrogen remaining metallic at ambient, is there an analogous example of this with a material I'm more familliar with, or is this something quite new?
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Exploring the Veracity of Online Claims with BackDrop
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Vetting Inaccurate News Stories Might Be Tougher Than Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change
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We read and hear a lot about climate change these days, some of it inaccurate, and many average citizens don’t know what or who to trust. I recently met with a friend from many years past, and he told me of his inability to accurately assess the differing information available about climate change. He thought there were two sides to the issue.
“I’m a tree hugger,” he said. “But I understand that people need trees to build houses.” This thoughtful person, an engineer by training, had a balanced view of the importance of the environment and how the economy and environmental protection must be balanced in a sustainable way. However, he was baffled by the stories promulgated by those who would deny climate change is caused by humans.
I tried to explain to him, as I have with others, that there aren’t two sides to the climate issue. Ninety-five percent of the world’s climate scientists have assessed that the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere pose a significant threat to human populations, the natural environment and the world economy.
I told him the confusion often comes from intertwining what scientists know concretely with analyses that provide a range of predictions for the future. In simple terms, scientists know and can document the past growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide. They can also document changes in temperature in the atmosphere and the ocean, and correlate those changes with the increase in greenhouse gases. They also know the source of greenhouse gases and can advise policymakers of which greenhouse gases cause the most change.
What scientists can’t predict precisely is the future. Scientists around the world share information, data sets and hypotheses to develop models of how the planet will change because of greenhouse gases. What they agree on is that there will be change within a range of predicted impacts such as these from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
By 2100, the average U.S. temperature is projected to increase by about 3 degrees to 12 degrees Fahrenheit, a broad range that depends on emissions scenario and climate model.
Studies project global sea levels to rise by another 1 to 4 feet by 2100, with an uncertainty range of 0.66 to 6.6 feet.
The confusion comes over reports that scientists don’t know exactly what impacts will be created by climate change or why scientists refine their initial projections. Those who deny humans are causing climate change say scientists’ inability to precisely forecast when and where impacts will occur means that scientists can’t demonstrate that humans are the cause of climate change impacts to-date and in the future. This confuses the public. However, scientists have determined past impacts and that there will be impacts in the future.
The day after our meeting, my friend sent me an article from an online magazine focused on giving people the knowledge to “push back at the erosion of our liberties and restore constitutionally limited small government.” The article’s lead said that “scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been tinkering with their data to make it look as if the planet was warming much faster than expected in order to influence global climate negotiations.” It used the claims of a whistleblower who formerly worked at NOAA. As reported previously in 3p, the claims initiated a call for a House hearing on the issue.
I sent my friend a link to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. That Web page explained that the work done was a normal examination of data sets. Scientists at NOAA gained new knowledge that explained discrepancies in several ocean temperature data sets and caused them to re-calibrate older data now that they understood the discrepancies.
The original story casting doubt on NOAA’s work first appeared in a sister paper to the Daily Mail, a publication Wikipedia recently banned as an unreliable source. The story was then reported in multiple media outlets that are considered credible by their readers, including the one sent to my friend.
Those readers were not given information that would help them understand the purpose and background of NOAA’s analysis. This lack of knowledge gave credibility to a story that was not credible.
In covering the issue, the New York Times quoted Dr. Zeke Hausfather, a scientist at U.C. Berkeley, and one of the reviewers of the ocean data refinement process. He said the result “strongly suggests NOAA got it right and that we have been underestimating ocean warming in recent years.”
My friend, who admittedly does understand science, wrote back after reading the NOAA Web page: “This is spot on. I can’t believe you found it so quickly.”
But how do average citizens, who don’t have access to people who can guide them to the source, sort out the kind of inaccurate information that courses across the Internet? The answer to that question might be more difficult than predicting the future extent of climate change impacts.
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Facebook announced Monday it has hired a digital forensics firm to investigate the handling of data on millions of Americans leaked to a consulting firm working on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
The move by Facebook came amid an onslaught of criticism after reports that British firm Cambridge Analytica harvested personal data from the profiles of 50 million users of the social network without their knowledge or consent.
A Facebook statement said the forensics firm Stroz Friedberg would "conduct a comprehensive audit of Cambridge Analytica," and that the company had agreed to comply and provide access to its servers and systems.
Facebook said University of Cambridge psychologist Aleksandr Kogan, who developed the app used to harvest user data, also agreed to cooperate.
It added that Christopher Wylie, a Canadian data analytics expert who worked with Kogan and who revealed the data leak to media, had declined to cooperate with the audit.
"This is part of a comprehensive internal and external review that we are conducting to determine the accuracy of the claims that the Facebook data in question still exists," the California social network giant said.
It noted that the parties involved had certified to Facebook the data in question had been destroyed, but said that "if this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook's policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made."
Facebook says its terms of service were violated when Kogan "lied" and used the results of his personality quiz to pass on data to Cambridge Analytica, which helped in Trump's 2016 campaign.
"We remain committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information," Facebook said.
"We also want to be clear that today when developers create apps that ask for certain information from people, we conduct a robust review to identify potential policy violations and to assess whether the app has a legitimate use for the data. We actually reject a significant number of apps through this process."
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Wind energy is supposed to fight climate change. But climate change is fighting back
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The researchers found, based on a large database of meteorological records, that there already has been a wind energy decline in key regions of China from 1979 through 2015. And they found that this had happened in concert with an overall warming trend, although natural climate fluctuations also played a role.
The change occurred, McElroy said, because the Asian continent has been warming up faster than the Pacific Ocean offshore.
"The circulation of the atmosphere over East Asia is what's called a monsoonal circulation, driven by the temperature contrast between the land and the sea," he said. "In winter, that temperature contrast is trending down."
China, the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide by a considerable margin, has already installed well more than 100 gigawatts of wind energy, considerably more than any other nation. So the new research plainly shows how climate change can render itself harder to fight.
"This is a very important result because it highlights the many negative impacts of climate change," Dan Kammen, an energy policy expert at the University of California at Berkeley, said of the China study, with which he was familiar but not involved.
These changes in China already seem to be happening. But the second study, published Monday in Nature Geoscience and apparently the first comprehensive look at wind energy resources under climate change, projects forward to the future using 10 climate change models. And it finds more of the same across the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere — a key area for wind energy installation from the United States to Europe to China — even as under some scenarios, the models show a growth of wind resources in the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere.
"What we found is that global warming will reduce the wind energy resource across much of the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the central U.S.," said Karnauskas, who conducted the work with university colleagues Julie Lundquist and Lei Zhang.
Based on high and low scenarios for the volume of greenhouse gas emissions, Karnauskas's study found declines on the order of 10 per cent to 40 per cent of potential wind energy in the Northern Hemisphere middle latitudes by 2100. For the central United States, it showed declines by 8 per cent or 10 per cent by 2050, depending on whether the world follows a lower or higher greenhouse gas emissions scenario.
Meanwhile, wind energy potential in Southern Hemisphere regions such as East Brazil, West Africa and East Australia increased significantly in the models, but only under high emissions scenarios. That's a trade-off, but hardly a simple one: The majority of current wind installations are in the Northern Hemisphere, as is the majority of global population and thus, naturally, global energy demand.
The changes in wind energy potential found in Karnauskas's study had a different cause than in McElroy's — at least for the Northern Hemisphere. This was the reduction in the temperature difference between the Arctic and the mid-latitudes, as the Arctic warms up at a considerably faster rate. This changing temperature gradient is already being blamed by some climate scientists for altering mid-latitude weather.
It's important to emphasize that in no case are we talking about a vanishing of the wind resource — rather, it's a fractional decline. Turbines will still draw energy from the winds, but the overall potential could be less.
"The reduction over that 40 year period is roughly 10 per cent," said McElroy, referring to what has already occurred in China. "That's a big deal, but it's not a game changer."
Furthermore, these studies looked at wind energy installations on land surfaces — not coastal offshore installations, which are growing in number, or true deepwater installations, which are only beginning at the moment. These could present a different story.
Nonetheless, the new research underscores that, if we are going to rely on the natural processes of the Earth to counter the ways in which we're changing the Earth, we should be ready for the occasional curveball.
"I don't think that it says, let's not employ wind energy as part of the solution to climate change," said Karnauskas. "It's always been cast as one piece of the pie that makes up a strategy to reduce emissions. But it also means that it is precariously sensitive to the climate state itself."
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Ms. Lucy Calderon from Guatemala recently represented the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) at the first ‘Reach and Turn’ workshop that was held at the City of Knowledge in Panama (December 12-16, 2017). The workshop’s overall aim was to shape a new communications ecosystem in the region by giving a ‘full spectrum’ overview of the political and media landscape.
The program was built around sharing good practice in science reporting: from writing to pitching to presenting to monitoring. This means turning theory into practice via interactive sessions, tailoring content for different groups, and then swapping roles.
In her article, Ms. Calderon reports on her experience during the conference.
Sharing knowledge not only can achieve to increase the number of people informed, it can also raise curiosity to learn more about a certain topic and to think in a critical way, as well as to raise the interest to reach a personal or community goal and to transform societies.
Learning how to produce the message, transmitting it through the right channel, making it to catch the attention and to achieve the objective of changing mind-sets is vital, especially when it is about topics that are considered “complex” or in the control of only a few people, such is the case of the different scientific fields.
That is why, with the purpose of strengthening the communication skills of all the actors involved in the production of science, its popularization and its inclusion in public policies for the benefit of all citizens, the “Reach and Turn” a workshop was held in the City of Knowledge.
The activity aimed to strengthen the knowledge of the participants in the field of science journalism, technology, innovation and science communication.
During the intense training week, the Panamanian researchers, communicators and science journalists experienced, according to their own words, new ways of thinking, learning and doing, which will help them to improve the way they are communicating science from their respective roles.
The workshop organizers from the UNU-MERIT, Senacyt Panama and the City of Knowledge, as well as its instructors from UNU-MERIT, the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the consultant agency Opinno agreed that all the attendees stood out for their enthusiasm and proactivity.
“During the development of the workshop, like if it were to cook a delicious and nourishing food, the presence, aptitude and attitude of each participant were the main, diverse and quality ingredients that gave the seasoning to the event and they let us enjoy and taste it”, said Lucy Calderón, Guatemalan journalist, one of the instructors of the workshop and representative for the WFSJ.
Sueli Brodin, from the UNU-MERIT, said to be happy to have shared experiences and knowledge with such a dynamic group that is really engaged in science journalism and science communication.
Sara Rosero, a Panamanian biotechnologist said that all the workshop activities were very good, and it was invaluable the opportunity to share with experts and learned from them the different ways in which you can engage people with science.
ALL HANDS ON DECK
After giving her speeches about why a good storytelling is clue to catch the people interest in science; which are the challenges of science journalism in risk communication; and how to read a scientific paper, so based on it you can produce an interesting and massive journalistic piece, Calderón coordinated among the participants a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) of science journalism and science communication in Panama.
She also asked the participants to perform a press conference parody. All the participants changed roles and experienced what it means to perform another and different role from their own. It was aimed to motivate their empathy and to learn which are the facts that they must take into consideration when researching, planning and communicating the right story from the position they could be.
THE CHIP OF AN ENTREPRENEUR MIND
During the Reach and Turn workshop, the IDB organized a Hackathon in Science Journalism and Outreach Communication; the launched challenge was how to improve Science Communication in Panama, providing and developing ideas and innovative projects. The methods to achieve the purpose were explained by the consultancy agency Opinno México.
The question in the challenge was the point to begin sharing the theory of the Design Thinking and Lean Start-up methods that are used to start a new and innovative project.
After explaining what each methodology is about and how their combination could help to solve the challenge question, Javier Iglesias, deputy of Opinno Mexico invited the participants to pitch their proposals in one minute.
The participants chose the best four proposals, decided which one will support and had a day to improve it and to make a final presentation in front of a jury and the other participants; at the end, two groups were the winners.
A scientific reality show and the TV program IMAGINA were the winner projects; however, all participants won knowledge, experience and remained motivated to keep working on their creativity and leadership.
Nicolas Cañete, from the Competitiveness and Innovation Division at IDB, said that the main Hackathon´s goal is to leave in the participants the “chip” of a competitive mind-set so they can better structure their ideas and then they can get financial support to make true those proposals aimed to improve science communication, technology, and innovation in their country.
ARTICLE BY LUCY CALDERON
Ms. Calderon participated in the ‘Reach and Turn’ workshop on behalf of the WFSJ (Panama, December 12-16, 2017)
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TODAY: Berkeley Prof, author Arlie Russell Hochschild talks Trump voters, Tea...
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Are they different from the Tea Party that amorphous grassroots organization of conservatives that took the nation by a storm? These are two of the questions to be discussed today when I interview via Facebook and Twitter Live, renowned sociologist and author, Arlie Russell Hochchild. Hochchild is a professor at University of California Berkeley, a hotbed of liberalism.
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The time has come for many things: for peace, for climate action, for economic sanity, the list is long.
This week on Radio Ecoshock we thunder into another place humans don't like to go. The nasty truth is we are killing off the only known living companions we have in the universe, as our first guest says. The venerable biologist and head of the Stanford Center for Biodiversity Paul Erhlich joins us.
Paul is followed by Will Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet." Tuttle says you can't care about climate change and still eat meat, because about half of all global emissions are driven by the industrial slaughter of our fellow species. That hidden holocaust of animals is also eating into our minds, twisting itself back out as illness and violence.
Too much information? Don't worry, be happy with this week's "Climate Variety Hour... In just ten minutes." Get inspired with Bernie Sanders, climate humor from UK's Guardian newspaper, and bits from climate songs by people who can actually sing.
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Brazil finds problems in samples from meat plants being investigated
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BRASILIA, April 6 Brazil's Agriculture Ministry on Thursday said it has found problems such as salmonella in eight of the 302 samples of meat-based products collected from the 21 meat processing plants being investigated in a corruption probe.
The ministry said it has started procedures to cancel federal operation licenses for the plants where the problems were found. The 21 plants are the target of a probe that revealed that major meatpackers bribed federal health inspectors to allow production and marketing of irregular meat-based products. (Reporting by Cesar Raizer; Writing by Marcelo Teixeira)
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The time has come for many things: for peace, for climate action, for economic sanity, the list is long.
This week on Radio Ecoshock we thunder into another place humans don't like to go. The nasty truth is we are killing off the only known living companions we have in the universe, as our first guest says. The venerable biologist and head of the Stanford Center for Biodiversity Paul Erhlich joins us.
Paul is followed by Will Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet." Tuttle says you can't care about climate change and still eat meat, because about half of all global emissions are driven by the industrial slaughter of our fellow species. That hidden holocaust of animals is also eating into our minds, twisting itself back out as illness and violence.
Too much information? Don't worry, be happy with this week's "Climate Variety Hour... In just ten minutes." Get inspired with Bernie Sanders, climate humor from UK's Guardian newspaper, and bits from climate songs by people who can actually sing.
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Grilled Ribeye is What’s Cooking on “Virginia This Morning”
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RICHMOND, Va - Chef Brian Mullins from Publix Aprons Cooking School showed Jessica how to make Grilled Ribeye with lemon butter and tomato farro risotto.
Publix Aprons Cooking School is located at 5400 Wyndham Forest Drive in Glen Allen and offers a variety of courses, which utilize modern technology, classic culinary techniques and wine and beer pairings.
"Wine and Dine Paso Robles" demo class is Thursday, June 14 at 6:30pm. $50 per seat.
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The time has come for many things: for peace, for climate action, for economic sanity, the list is long.
This week on Radio Ecoshock we thunder into another place humans don't like to go. The nasty truth is we are killing off the only known living companions we have in the universe, as our first guest says. The venerable biologist and head of the Stanford Center for Biodiversity Paul Erhlich joins us.
Paul is followed by Will Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet." Tuttle says you can't care about climate change and still eat meat, because about half of all global emissions are driven by the industrial slaughter of our fellow species. That hidden holocaust of animals is also eating into our minds, twisting itself back out as illness and violence.
Too much information? Don't worry, be happy with this week's "Climate Variety Hour... In just ten minutes." Get inspired with Bernie Sanders, climate humor from UK's Guardian newspaper, and bits from climate songs by people who can actually sing.
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Rush calls for fresh probe of Emmett Till lynching
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1:30 Super Bowl 51: Players to Watch (besides Tom Brady and Julio Jones)
1:56 Here's why those potato chips are so hard to resist late at night
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The time has come for many things: for peace, for climate action, for economic sanity, the list is long.
This week on Radio Ecoshock we thunder into another place humans don't like to go. The nasty truth is we are killing off the only known living companions we have in the universe, as our first guest says. The venerable biologist and head of the Stanford Center for Biodiversity Paul Erhlich joins us.
Paul is followed by Will Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet." Tuttle says you can't care about climate change and still eat meat, because about half of all global emissions are driven by the industrial slaughter of our fellow species. That hidden holocaust of animals is also eating into our minds, twisting itself back out as illness and violence.
Too much information? Don't worry, be happy with this week's "Climate Variety Hour... In just ten minutes." Get inspired with Bernie Sanders, climate humor from UK's Guardian newspaper, and bits from climate songs by people who can actually sing.
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Sport24.co.za | Other sports have 'bullies' too - UCI boss
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World cycling chief Brian Cookson said he didn't recognise dark accounts of a "culture of fear" in the British team but pointed out that sport is strewn with tough leaders who could be viewed as bullies. The Union Cycliste Internationale president was speaking ahead of the completion of an independent review into British Cycling after former rider Jess Varnish accused coaches of sexism and bullying.
Start the conversation, or Read more at News24.
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The crisis in the journalism industry, intensified with the popularization of the World Wide Web, warrants radical rethinking of the professional identity of journalists and their role in society. This paper first suggests replacing the Habermasian public sphere with Dutch historian Johan Huizinga’s magic circle of play to describe the relationship between the press and its audience. Within this new model, the writer configures the rules and boundaries in which the reader is free to respond and subvert, an interplay that increasingly shapes both current news production and expectations of the public. This paper then explores play and playful attitudes in newsroom practices and output through semi-structured interviews with journalists, game designers and educators. The “Game Team” at the news and entertainment Web site BuzzFeed acts as a primary case study of a group of journalists who make a variety of playful products — from full-fledged games to interactives — which they iterate and improve over time, in response to readers’ feedback.
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Rush calls for fresh probe of Emmett Till lynching
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0:55 PETA says go vegan for your valentine Pause
0:57 CMPD video: Police chief responds to immigration enforcement concerns
3:38 We'll be there
14:47 Family looks for answers after Josue Diaz fatal shooting
8:20 Cooper offers compromise HB2 repeal proposal
2:43 Tax reassessment: A boon for Trump National Golf Club and a loss for North Carolina county
1:30 Super Bowl 51: Players to Watch
4:07 Steve Crump confronts man who called him the N-word
0:34 Nice day to get a Valentine
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Notes: In the Affiliates version there is a break point with re-introduction at 23:49 for stations needing to insert station ID or announcements.
The time has come for many things: for peace, for climate action, for economic sanity, the list is long.
This week on Radio Ecoshock we thunder into another place humans don't like to go. The nasty truth is we are killing off the only known living companions we have in the universe, as our first guest says. The venerable biologist and head of the Stanford Center for Biodiversity Paul Erhlich joins us.
Paul is followed by Will Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet." Tuttle says you can't care about climate change and still eat meat, because about half of all global emissions are driven by the industrial slaughter of our fellow species. That hidden holocaust of animals is also eating into our minds, twisting itself back out as illness and violence.
Too much information? Don't worry, be happy with this week's "Climate Variety Hour... In just ten minutes." Get inspired with Bernie Sanders, climate humor from UK's Guardian newspaper, and bits from climate songs by people who can actually sing.
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Astronomers: Ancient Star 'Shouldn't Exist'
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Scientists examining a star at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy say it really shouldn't exist. They published their findings in the journal <em>Nature</em>.
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The Canada lynx, protected under the Endangered Species Act, is at the center of an upcoming congressional inquiry. Three scientists stand accused of rigging a study on the wild cat's population in order to keep forest habitats in Rocky Mountain states off limits. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports. <EM>(The online version of this story was corrected online on February 22, 2002:<br /><br /> In NPR's online story <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/feb/lynx/020220.lynx.html">Lynx Conservation Under Fire</a>, we reported that a congressional committee has called a hearing to investigate allegations of fraud in research on the Canada lynx. We wrote online that wildlife biologist Michael Schwartz's "work -- and that of nearly 500 other scientists involved in the national lynx survey -- is now embroiled in controversy. Last December, several of the survey's biologists were accused of rigging results by mislabeling hairs to pass them off as having come from captive lynx in forests where the animals had never been spotted." In fact, Michael Schwartz's work on the lynx, published recently in <EM>Nature</EM> magazine, has nothing to do with the National Lynx Survey and is not currently involved with any congressional investigations. Michael Schwartz wrote in to say of his research: "You have taken something that was not under controversy and now placed it under controversy." )</EM>
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The California Report 2006-01-23
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Greenhouse Gases and the Economy. Congressman David Dreier on Ethics Reform. End Music.
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NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Gideon Rose, managing editor of <EM>Foreign Affairs</EM> magazine, about the magazine publishing a speech given by Allen W. Dulles at the Council on Foreign Relations on December 3, 1945. Dulles was reporting on the fitful progress in rebuilding post-war Germany seven months after V-E Day.
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The 'Times' Of London Reverts To Type To Motivate Reporters
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In a striking display of confidence in the sensory impact of old-school technology, the Times of London has set up speakers in its newsroom to broadcast the sound of typewriters clicketing and clacking to inspire reporters to buckle down for deadline, according to The Independent newspaper. The sound starts with just one mellow typewriter and builds to an insistent clamor as press time approaches, the Independent reports. The tall speakers were a surprise to the journalists, given that typewriters haven't been heard in newsrooms since the 1980s. The Murdoch-owned Times calls the scheme a "trial," and the paper's deputy head of digital news called it "a playful idea," but it remains to be seen whether reporters will work harder and faster to background music of typewriter keys hammering out stories the old-fashioned way. Former Times journalist George Brock was skeptical. "Typewriters disappeared from newsrooms in the late 1980s," Brock told the Independent. "There will be very few people there who remember the noise of massed bands of typewriters in the newsroom." Times employee Jules Mattsson tweeted a photo of one of the newsroom speakers.
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Not that writing about record stores is a new topic, but I thought it was interesting that after a fairly interesting discussion this week here at MM, none other than The New York Times wrote a seemingly random article about vinyl, specifically the Princeton Record Exchange. Readers of the MM comments section will note that Antony mentioned the Princeton Record Exchange yesterday. Coincidence? Well, yes, probably. Anyhow, check out the completely unrelated (or is it?) article in The NY Times here.
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