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The Pulse (Series)

Produced by WHYY

Most recent piece in this series:

535: The Lasting Impacts of COVID-19 , 3/15/2024

From WHYY | Part of the The Pulse series | 59:01

3000x3000_itunes_thepulse_1_small It’s been four years since COVID-19 struck, transforming our modern world in ways we’d never seen before — and we’re still processing the aftershocks. The pandemic exposed fault lines lurking beneath the surface of our everyday lives — friendships and bonds that weren’t as strong as we thought; political rifts that turned into chasms; shifts in our fundamental beliefs of who we should trust, and what rules we should follow. It showed us how fragile we are — as human beings, and as a global community. Now, we find ourselves trying to pick up the pieces — to understand what happened, and what we can do better next time. On this episode, we explore the major changes caused by the pandemic, what we can learn from them, and how we can move forward. We hear stories about one man’s dogged search for a treatment for his long COVID, how the pandemic both hurt and revived the field of public health, and how to repair relationships that became frayed or broken by the pressures of the pandemic.

Climate One (Series)

Produced by Climate One

Most recent piece in this series:

2024-03-15 Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation

From Climate One | Part of the Climate One series | 58:55

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As heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. Are we just engaged in blah, blah, blah? 


Katharine Hayhoe is chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy and a professor in the department of political science at Texas Tech. She’s a very firm believer in the power of conversations. She says what’s key is how we approach them.

“If we begin a conversation by disagreeing over something, it is very rare – it’s not impossible – but it is rare for it to end in a positive direction,” she says. We need to speak from the heart, not the head.

“If we begin a conversation by esteeming the other person rather than implicitly judging them, as so many conversations begin today, that conversation starts off with so much potential and can end in an incredibly surprising place.”


One half of conversation is talking, and the other half is listening. Journalist Meera Subramanian has honed her craft of listening, partly by spending months traveling the country, engaging with people about climate.


“There's just so many reasons why people might be resistant or engaged or dismissive [about climate]. And when I've been out reporting, sometimes I'm seeking out people that are on certain sides of the spectrum, but what I often find is that both sides are not listening to each other.”


Subramanian says we can all be better listeners: “And that sometimes means letting go of your own story about why a topic concerns you, and listening to what somebody is saying about why it might concern them.” 


Truly listening needs to be part of every real, honest conversation. Only then can talk lead to action and, ultimately, change. 


Anand Giridharadas, author of “The Persuaders,” says part of what can make climate a difficult subject is that for so long it’s been framed as a dark, dour problem.


“The climate movement needs to stop trying to hawk a dour sounding agenda and actually start with where are people, meet people where they are. Where are they on the emotional level, where are they on the psychological level, how can we speak to them?”

“The biggest problem with regard to climate on this topic of persuasion is the movement has been right on the facts, right on the warnings, right on what needs to be done. Right on the urgency, right on the shaming of politicians. Right, right, right, right, right. I think somewhere down the line, no one got the memo to make sure that we are building a movement that is more fun, more life-giving, more purpose giving, more educative, more welcoming to be part of,” Giridharadas says. 

“Every single person in this country is impacted by the climate crisis,” says former Maine State Senator Chloe Maxmin, now co-executive director of Dirt Road Revival, “and people are gonna talk about it and think about it in different ways in different places…We just got to have open hearts and open minds.”


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A Way with Words (Series)

Produced by A Way with Words

Most recent piece in this series:

Gilded Age (#1633)

From A Way with Words | Part of the A Way with Words series | 54:00

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A professor who spent 25 years studying arthropods has some thoughts regarding our conversation about the phrase tight as a tick.
Karen in Charlotte, North Carolina, adores her son's cleft chin. Her husband, who also has one, calls it a butt chin. Karen prefers chimple, a combination of chin and dimple. Did she coin it?
If you're going up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, then you're going up to bed.
Is there a term for the need to sneeze when you step out into the sun? There are several, including the photic sneeze reflex, solar sneeze reflex, the Peroutka sneeze, and Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome, also known as ACHOO. Because exposure to sudden, bright light can be sternutatory, or cause sneezing, this phenomenon is also  called pepper on the sun. If you have a hard time sneezing, you have arrested sternuation, from Latin sternuere, meaning "to sneeze." The Old English word for "sneeze" is fneora.
A listener in Park City, Utah, says she and her fellow ski enthusiasts are having heated debates about the word nonplussed. It originally meant "at a loss," from Latin non plus, meaning "no more," suggesting a situation in which one can go no further, as in an argument. Perhaps because of confusion with nonchalant, the expression nonplussed also acquired the meaning of "not bothered." Both meanings now exist side by side, and linguists regard nonplussed as a skunked word. In other words, its use has become so problematic and contentious that it's best to choose a different word altogether.
People are forever saying that we live in one age or another, such as the Space Age or the Internet Age, which inspired Quiz Guy John Chaneski to create a Puzzle for the Ages. Imagine a world where people misunderstand words that end in -age, so someone needs to set them straight. For example, imagine someone going on and on about how we live in an age that's untidy:  "Everywhere you look there are clothes on the floor, dishes in the sink, truly we live in this kind of age." A more rational person then explains that the other misunderstood a word that ends in -age. What's the word?
Carl in Sebastopol, California, was reminded of his childhood on New York's Lower East Side while ready Harry Golden's book For 2 Cents Plain (Bookshop|Amazon), the title referring to how customers ordered a plain glass of seltzer. For a little more, he could get the beverage with milk and chocolate syrup stirred into it. Why was that drink called an egg cream if it contained neither eggs nor cream? 
After our conversation about restaurant codes used to ensure efficient service, a chef in Charlotte, North Carolina, shares more examples from his experience in an upscale establishment.
Katie in Everett, Washington, is curious about the expression If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers. What is a tinker? She heard this phrase on the television series The Gilded Age, in response to a character who is fretting about a hypothetical situation. The idea is that just because you talk about something, that doesn't mean it will necessarily happen. For centuries, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, tinkers were itinerant metalworkers who traveled from town to town fixing pots and pans and other kitchen utensils. The origin of the word tinker is unclear. It may be an extension of the word tin, or it may have to do with the sound of metal striking metal. If you're tinkering in your garage, then you're working with your hands to figure out a problem. A longer version of this saying begins with If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride / If wishes were watches, I'd wear one by my side and the phrase is often rendered as a rhyming version: If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinker's hands.
Why is an exciting sports event called a barnburner? A real barn on fire can be a spectacular sight, with so many combustible materials inside. Metaphorically, then, a barnburner is a "humdinger" or a "doozy." There's also a political sense of barnburner, referring to certain politicians and activists. A radical wing of the Democratic Party in the 1930s and 1940s was known as the Barnburners, a spinoff of a faction called the Locofocos, a reference to a wooden match with a name that likely derives from loco suggesting "speed" and the Italian word for "fire," fuoco.
Acclaimed Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair's sumptuous memoir, How to Say Babylon (Bookshop|Amazon) tells the story of her struggle to break free from a rigid Rastafarian upbringing, and how her discovery of poetry, both memorizing it and writing it, became her way out. 
Published in the mid-19th century, the poem "A Chapter of Ifs" elaborates at length on the phrase If ifs and ands were pots and pans. The gist is that one shouldn't dwell upon things that may not come to pass. 
How are lakes named? Does the proper name of a lake come first, as in Candlewood Lake, or does the word Lake precede the proper name, as in Lake Erie. It's a question that's long puzzled limnologists, the people who study lakes. The authors of an article in the journal Freshwater Biology titled "Lake Name or Name Lake? The etymology of lake nomenclature in the United States" found that most lakes use the format Name Lake, although larger lakes tend to be named with the Lake Name format.
You know that feeling when you walk into a shopping mall and are so overwhelmed by all the distractions you lose track of what you came there for? That's the Gruen Transfer or Gruen Effect, named for Victor Gruen, the architect who designed the first suburban open-air shopping center in the United States. Naming expert Nancy Friedman writes about this and other matters of onomastics and branding on her Substack, Fritinancy. 
A Virginia listener says that often when she'd leave the house, her grandfather would tell her Remember you belong to the land of the blue hen's chicken. What in the world did that mean? The feisty blue hen is the state bird of Delaware.
A slatch is a brief respite or interval when the rain lets up, as in We must wait for a slatch of fair weather. 
This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette.

Ozark Highlands Radio (Series)

Produced by Ozark Highlands Radio

Most recent piece in this series:

OHR200: OHR Presents: Dale Ann Bradley, 3/25/2024

From Ozark Highlands Radio | Part of the Ozark Highlands Radio series | 58:59

Dale_ann_bradley_prx_small Ozark Highlands Radio is a weekly radio program that features live music and interviews recorded at Ozark Folk Center State Park’s beautiful 1,000-seat auditorium in Mountain View, Arkansas.  In addition to the music, our “Feature Host” segments take listeners through the Ozark hills with historians, authors, and personalities who explore the people, stories, and history of the Ozark region.

This week, Kentucky Music Hall of Fame member and six time International Bluegrass Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year, Dale Ann Bradley, recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park.

“Dale Ann Bradley is a Kentucky native who is proud of her state.  Her music reflects that love as she often sings of the state’s multiple charms including sparkling streams, rolling hills and mountains, lush hillsides filled with native plants and beautiful landscapes.  She also includes songs about coal mines (her father was a miner) and another business, that of moonshine stills.

Thanks to a great-uncle who noted Dale Ann’s interest in music, an 8-track player appeared at her home, along with tapes of some of her favorite singers.  When she was 14, she was given her first guitar.  ‘It was a little plywood, small body guitar, but it had six strings, and I made a pick from a milk jug.  I drove everybody crazy learning to play it.’

The singer learned to play her guitar and soon was singing the songs she heard on the radio and off the 8-track player.  When she was a junior in high school, the new band director at school and his wife, known as Back Porch Grass, sang in the summer at Pine Mountain Stage Park in Pineville.  Acknowledging her talent, they asked Dale Ann to join them, which gave her the opportunity to learn to entertain an audience.  Attending one of her concerts is almost like having a friend in your living room, as she chats back and forth with the audience and doesn’t hesitate to share jokes on herself as well as the rest of her band.

In 2018, Dale Ann was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, joining many people she looked up to including Bill Monroe, Keith Whitley, Sonny Osborne, and Sam Bush.  The singer is a six-time winner of IBMA’s Female Vocalist of the Year and took home the Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year in 2021 for ‘After While.’  She has been named Female Vocalist of the year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America three times.”
-https://www.daleannbradley.com/about  

In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, OHR producer Jeff Glover offers a 1981 archival recording of Texas swing legend Laura Lee McBride performing the classic Western song “I Bet Ya My Heart I Love Ya” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives.

In his segment “Back in the Hills,” writer, professor and historian Dr. Brooks Blevins talks about the Ozark tradition of growing and refining molasses.

Earth Eats (Series)

Produced by WFIU

Most recent piece in this series:

EE 24-11: Sushi rolling, meatpacking and community gardening, 3/15/2024

From WFIU | Part of the Earth Eats series | 54:00

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“We know that there are all sorts of good chemicals that come out of the dirt and working with land, working with plants that are beneficial to our mood and our health. For refugee populations that have had to be on the run or had to live in refugee camps for decades--having a little piece of land that you can tend to that you can take care of and then see the results and not feel like you’re gonna be bombed out the next day–it brings a kind of peace of mind and a little bit of healing.” 

This week on the show Tammy Ho of University of California-Riverside shares her research about refugees from Burma and their participation in the US food system. We’ll learn about a supermarket sushi mogul, Burmese meatpackers as essential workers, and how a group of refugees saved a failing church by starting a community garden. 


Folk Alley Weekly (Series)

Produced by WKSU

Most recent piece in this series:

Reveal Weekly (Series)

Produced by Reveal

Most recent piece in this series:

1012: A Whistleblower in New Folsom Prison, 3/23/2024

From Reveal | Part of the Reveal Weekly series | :00

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With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes (Series)

Produced by With Good Reason

Most recent piece in this series:

Spring Break (half)

From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes series | 29:00

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About 80% of Americans have visited Disney World in Florida. Marc Williams says that Disney World has both shaped and been shaped by American identity. And: Anita Zatori sees an increase in young people choosing vacation destinations not to be there, but to create content of themselves being there. 

Planetary Radio (Series)

Produced by Mat Kaplan

Most recent piece in this series:

Subsurface granite on the Moon? The anatomy of a lunar hot spot

From Mat Kaplan | Part of the Planetary Radio series | 28:50

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A decades-old lunar mystery gets an update in this week's Planetary Radio. Matt Siegler from the Planetary Science Institute shares his team's surprising findings about the granite formation that might lie beneath Compton-Belkovich, a thorium-rich hot spot on the far side of the Moon. Then Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, shares What's Up in the night sky.


Discover more at: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2023-subsurface-granite-on-the-moon

Living Planet 05/04/2018

From DW - Deutsche Welle | Part of the Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW series | 30:00

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On the show this week: Climate protection is on the agenda at talks in Bonn. But back home, who's really taking action? We visit a budding environmental movement in Poland's coal heartland and find out how an oil pipeline has pitched environmentalists against the Canadian president. Plus, solar power in Kenya and a cool solution to LA's urban heat problem.

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Living Planet: Walk the Walk

 

Climate protection is on the agenda at talks in Bonn. But back home, who's really taking action? We visit a budding environmental movement in Poland's coal heartland and find out how an oil pipeline has pitched environmentalists against the Canadian president. Plus, solar power in Kenya and a cool solution to LA's urban heat problem.

 

 

Katowice: A coal town that wants to go green

 

The upcoming COP24 climate summit will be held in Katowice, deep in Poland's industrial and coal mining heartland. Its air quality is among the worst in Europe. But the town is trying to clean up its act. And if Katowice can go green, perhaps anywhere can.

 

Canada's First Nations vs. tar sands pipeline

 

Canadian President Justin Trudeau has been vocal about his commitment to climate protection. But now, he's coming to blows with environmentalists and the provincial government of British Columbia over a massive oil pipeline

Can reflective roads help LA keep its cool?

Los Angeles has the greatest density of cars in the US — and a massive network of roads. In summer the asphalt absorbs sunlight and heats up, warming the air above it, an effect that will be exacerbated by climate change. But cool paving could change all that.

 

 

Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW (Series)

Produced by DW - Deutsche Welle

Most recent piece in this series:

Living Planet 03/15/24

From DW - Deutsche Welle | Part of the Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW series | 29:59

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Tara Austin

From WDSE | Part of the Radio Gallery series | 04:40

This week painter Tara Austin opens her new body of work "Boreal Ornament" in the George Morrison Gallery at the Duluth Art Institute. Along with Jonathan Herrera, Austin welcomes the public the opening on Thursday, May 10, with a reception and gallery talk from 6 - 9pm.

An MFA graduate from UW Madison, Minnesota native Austin brings the northland and Nordic traditions of rosemåling into her vibrant flora, patterned paintings. Listen for more about her process and inspirations and check her work on display at The Duluth Art Institute May 10-July 1.

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Tara_austin_5_small This week painter Tara Austin opens her new body of work "Boreal Ornament" in the George Morrison Gallery at the Duluth Art Institute. Along with Jonathan Herrera, Austin welcomes the public the opening on Thursday, May 10, with a reception and gallery talk from 6 - 9pm. An MFA graduate from UW Madison, Minnesota native Austin brings the northland and Nordic traditions of rosemåling into her vibrant flora, patterned paintings. Listen for more about her process and inspirations and check her work on display at The Duluth Art Institute May 10-July 1.

ClassicalWorks (Series)

Produced by WFIU

Most recent piece in this series:

ClassicalWorks (Episode 182)

From WFIU | Part of the ClassicalWorks series | 59:00

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Jazz with David Basse (Series)

Produced by Jazz with David Basse, LLC.

Most recent piece in this series:

2334.3: Jazz with David Basse 2334.3, 3/22/2024 2:00 AM

From Jazz with David Basse, LLC. | Part of the Jazz with David Basse series | 01:00:00

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Open Source with Christopher Lydon (Series)

Produced by Open Source

Most recent piece in this series:

Of Melville and Marriage

From Open Source | Part of the Open Source with Christopher Lydon series | 36:49

Hm_small We speak of the mystery of Herman Melville, or the misery of Melville, the American masterpiece man. For Moby-Dick alone, he is our Shakespeare, our Dante—though he fled the writing of prose for the last half of his life, and in death The New York Times misspelled his name.

This podcast is a demonstration of another way, a better way to crack the riddle of Melville: read the book aloud with someone you love and jot down every question that comes to your mind. Before you know it, you’ll have written your own novel on a few hundred Post-it notes. Our guests, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel, call their novel Dayswork, and it’s a marvel. 

Blue Dimensions (Series)

Produced by Bluesnet Radio

Most recent piece in this series:

Blue Dimensions M11: The WJ3 All-Stars Bring Us Love Songs We (Maybe) Forgot

From Bluesnet Radio | Part of the Blue Dimensions series | 59:00

Wj3_small In this hour of Blue Dimensions, the WJ3 All-Stars, drummer Willie Jones III with a great band that includes trumpeter Terrell Stafford and other superb players. We'll explore their album "Lovers and Love Songs: The Ones You Forgot." Also: pianist Luke Carlos O'Reilly has a house party on his album "Leave The Gate Open," and drummer Marlon Simon is "On Different Paths," his new album with brothers Edward on piano and Michael on trumpet. Plus: a new solo guitar piece from Julian Lage, the trio Wolff Clark Dorsey celebrating the music of Bill Evans, and organist Mike LeDonne taking on a Coltrane classic.

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Feminine Fusion (Series)

Produced by WCNY

Most recent piece in this series:

S08 Ep30: Looking West, Part 4, 3/23/2024

From WCNY | Part of the Feminine Fusion series | :00

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Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts (Series)

Produced by DW - Deutsche Welle

Most recent piece in this series:

DWFC 2023 - 13: Highlights from "Parsifal": Bayreuth Festival, 12/25/2023

From DW - Deutsche Welle | Part of the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts series | 01:57:58

Parsifal_small You know you've composed something special when even your most vocal critics manage to find words of praise. Such was the case with Richard Wagner's last opera, "Parsifal." Written for his Bayreuth Festival Theater, the nearly five-hour-long work is a mystical drama with religious overtones set in the realm of the Holy Grail knights. This new production from the 2023 Bayreuth Festival features a star-studded cast including heldentenor Andreas Schager in the title role and Latvian soprano Elīna Garanča in her Bayreuth debut as Kundry. Jay Scheib is the director, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus, and soloist in excerpts from the opening night performance.

High Country Celtic Radio (Series)

Produced by High Country Celtic Radio

Most recent piece in this series:

High Country Celtic Radio 312 - St. Patrick's Day

From High Country Celtic Radio | Part of the High Country Celtic Radio series | 59:00

High-country-celtic-240x240_small Katie Marie and Joe put together an hour of Irish musicians playing Irish music in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. There are no pub songs or "green beer" songs here--it's all Irish traditional songs and dance tunes.

Our artists this week: Blackie O'Connell & Hugh Healy, Patrick Street, Mick O'Brien, Lúnasa, Nuala Kennedy, Nollaig Casey, MacDara Ó Raghallaigh, Altan, Martin Quinn & Angelina Carberry, Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon, Cara Dillon Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and The Bothy Band.

The FairPlé score for this week: 43

Celebrating the Birthday of Bucky Pizzarelli

From KCUR | Part of the 12th Street Jump Weekly series | 59:00

(Air Dates: December 31 - January 8) On this week's archive episode of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the music of Bucky Pizzarelli with Bucky himself and his long time music partner Ed Laub. We'll play a game of "So, What's Your Question" with Ed and talk to Bucky about what gives him the blues.

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Public Radio's weekly jazz, blues and comedy jam, 12th STREET JUMP celebrates America's original art form, live from one of its birthplaces, 12th Street in Kansas City. That is where Basie tickled and ivories and Big Joe Turner shouted the blues. Each week, host Ebony Fondren offers up a lively hour of topical sketch comedy and some great live jazz and blues from the 12th STREET JUMP band (musical director Joe Cartright, along with Tyrone Clark on bass and Arnold Young on drums) and vocalist David Basse. Special guests join the fun every week down at the 12th Street Jump.

Notes from the Jazz Underground #44 - Jazz in Chicago, 2019

From WDCB | Part of the Notes from the Jazz Underground series | 58:00

With all of the internationally lauded Jazz coming out of Chicago these days, Notes from the Jazz Underground takes a look - and a listen - to some of the shining stars of the Chicago Jazz scene.

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