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• The WTO Protests after 10 years

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 1pm ET/10am PT The 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle led to the largest street protests and demonstrations in the city’s history. Today on KUOW’s Weekday , the topic is the impact of those protests on the WTO and trade policy, and how they changed the nature of protests since ...
  1 week ago

• Public radio audiences "aint getting any younger..."

  
  BlatherWatch — Authority: 466
  With the slight exception at news-based stations,  public radio audiences are aging at a disturbing pace. The future may be bleak for the music stations: particularly classical. A new study by Walrus Research calculated the rate of aging of audiences for each public radio format. In the period – Spring 1999 ...
  1 week ago

• Little things, and a roasted vegetable chowder

  
  hogwash — Authority: 110
  Today, just a few quick links, and a recipe for an oven-roasted (mostly) root vegetable chowder… That fried squash ? You might have heard me talking about it on KUOW , Seattle’s NPR station. (If you didn’t,  it’s here. ) Also, I’ve entered the  maple-kabocha sour cream bundt cake in Bon ...
  1 week ago

• Nancy Pearl on book reviews

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Nancy Pearl drops by KUOW’s Weekday regularly to talk about books. Today, the subject is reviews and the role critics play in lifting or sinking new books. But we expect the conversation to head off on a few different book-related directions. And one of the great things about ...
  1 week ago

• Multitasking Zen

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Can meditation make the stress of multitasking less stressful? We’re not talking about multitasking as sport; this is the real multitasking we’re forced to do on a daily basis: the phone that rings while you’re writing the email message on the way to your next meeting. University of Washington professor David ...
  2 weeks ago

• India, Pakistan and the nuclear question

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT With NPR’s focus on India and Pakistan this week (an excellent two part series on Morning Edition ), we’re also highlighting this conversation on KUOW’s Weekday today . Ashley Tellis of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and author of India’s Emerging ...
  2 weeks ago

• All that flotsam in the ocean

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 1pm ET/10am PT There’s tons and tons and tons of garbage floating in the ocean. The currents carry it for thousands on miles, aggregate it into huge patches of floating garbage, and sea creatures consume it, and often die because of it. There’s an obvious environmental story here, but all that ...
  2 weeks ago

• The big lie about Afghanistan

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 1pm ET/10am PT Malalai Joya was born in Afghanistan, and returned from living in exile in 1998. In 2005, she was elected to the Afghan Parliament. But in 2007, she was suspended from Parliament because she began denouncing the warlords who were serving with her. Joya has written A Woman Among ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mark Danner on the frontlines of war

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Journalist Mark Danner has covered war, and the consequences of war, for more than 20 years: in Haiti, Sarajevo and Iraq. He released information on the authorization of torture during the Iraq war. And he writes about Iraq regularly for The New York Review of Books . Danner with be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Last Wednesdays "The Conversation" on KUOW

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 426
  Some really good stuff . First they talked with the newest members of the Seattle City Council about the idea new mayor Mike McGinn floated to take over the school district (their response: "Were busy enough as it is"), then with the new members of the Seattle School Board about administrative spending in the Seattle ...
  3 weeks ago

• What it’s like for Muslim teenagers

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 3pm ET/12pm PT What’s it like to be a Muslim teenager in America? There’s a new book from Dilara Hafiz and her son, Imran, called The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook . The co-authors have written it for teens, and they cover a range of topics, ranging from religious extremism to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The other government health care

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT You may not have heard of the  Indian Health Service , but IHS is another public health system run by the government. It provides services to about 1.8 million Native Americans; its annual budget is $3.6 billion. Today on KUOW’s Weekday , Steve Scher leads a discussion about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ending honor killings

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Journalist Rana Husseini has written a new book about the practice of honor killings in Jordan, and today, she’ll talk about the topic on KUOW’s Weekday . Murder in the Name of Honor explores why the tradition of honor killings – in which girls and women are killed to ...
  3 weeks ago

• A literary history of America

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Legendary music writer and cultural critic Greil Marcus has edited a new book of essays about the most important landmarks of American literature. But Marcus goes way beyond the standard definition of literature: Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams in the same book with Bob Dylan and ...
  4 weeks ago

• A red tide in the Northwest

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  The description at the beginning of this story is “It’s like an oil spill, but without the oil.” That can’t be good.  But that’s how wildlife specialists are describing a bloom of algae along the coast in the Pacific Northwest. The red algae bloom has killed hundreds of seabirds. The Coast Guard and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stewart Brand on Green Myths

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT Stewart Brand’s latest book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto , questions some of the central tenets of environmentalism. Is nuclear power bad? Can biotechnology serve the planet? Can science and engineering advance the environmentalist cause? As the title ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mad Science with Theodore Gray

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT This is one of those interviews that doesn’t have a precisely defined endpoint, but that doesn’t matter because it could be a lot of fun. Theodore Gray joins Steve Scher today on KUOW’s Weekday . Besides his Gray Matter column for Popular Science and his role as ...
  4 weeks ago

• Barbara Ehrenreich on the Bright Side

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  Listen live at 12pm ET/9am PT The title of Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book states her premise pretty clearly: Bright–Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America . When does positive thinking turn into a willful ignorance of reality and societal problems? Ehrenreich will talk ...
  5 weeks ago

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