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• Geo Quiz

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (1127098.mp3) Download MP3 Our daily geography quiz.
  11 hours ago

• Largest shellfish port in Europe

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  We’re looking for a rugged town in the extreme North East corner of Scotland. It’s 40 miles north of Aberdeen along the North Sea. This town claims it’s the largest shellfish port in Europe. Last year the town hauled in more than 12,000 tons of shellfish. More than half the town works in the fishing industry. ...
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• Entire program – November 26, 2009

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (112609full.mp3) Download MP3 Today on The World: A British inquiry into the Iraq War reveals more about what George Bush and Tony Blair discussed before the invasion; why trouble for the global economy is good news for the world of romance novels, and we find out what can be heard at the ...
  1 day ago

• Geo Quiz

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (1126098.mp3) Download MP3 Our daily geography quiz.
  1 day ago

• Split the difference: Social Democrats, Dr. Simi and AMLO

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 430
  If there really is a drug dealing “family” seeking to control the Mexican state, it’s the one headed by Dr. Simi… the cartoon mascot of Farmacias Similares and Best Laboratories. Victor Gonazles Torres and alter-ego The hugely successful — and profitable — generic pharamceutical company, which ...
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• Home of the potato

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  On Thanksgiving Day, we’re asking you to ponder the origins of those potatoes in your holiday meal. No, we’re not interested in where Aunt Gladys or Cousin Mike picked up those potatoes to mash and bring over to your feast. We want to know where the potato was first grown for food. Here are a few hints. It’s a ...
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• Tech Podcast 268: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Returns!

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (WTPpodcast268.mp3) Download MP3 If you’ve followed this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know I have a soft spot for the late Douglas Adams’ monumentally satisfying Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . I love it in pretty much all of its forms (OK, I’m partial to the radio ...
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• Copper Thrives In The 21st Century

  
  T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer — Authority: 125
  Alexander Graham Bell loved copper wire. His Bell Telephone Company and others strung it on poles and buried it in the ground until there were thousands upon thousands of miles of small gauge copper wire connecting nearly every home and business. And that’s the way it’s stayed for over 100 years. Now that we’re ...
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• Bugging Jonathan Goldstein

  
  Radio Sweethearts — Authority: 117
  You probably already know this, but Jonathan Goldstein, of “This American Life” fame, has his own radio show, “ WireTap ,” that runs on the CBC Radio One in Canada, and, via Public Radio International, several American public radio stations. "Alberto Gonzales on line 2...." by Vaguely Artistic, Flickr. ...
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• Janet Jackson Confirms She’s No Longer With Jermaine Dupri & Not Gonna Be Apart Of The Jackson Reality Show

  
  Grown Folks Musik — Authority: 154
  more about “ Janet “, posted with vodpod   Tagged: Janet Jackson, Jermaine DuPri
  1 week ago

• Anasma Vuong

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (11182009.mp3) Download MP3 Anasma Vuong Today’s Global Hit features a belly dancer. Her name is Anasma Vuong. She’s originally from Paris. Her father is Vietnamese, and her mother from Tunisia. These days Anasma Vuong lives in New York. And she specializes in a fusion of belly dance ...
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• Actively Reading: OLPC Critique

  
  Disparate — Authority: 399
  Critical thinking has been on my mind, recently. For one thing, I oriented an  ”intro. to sociology” course I teach toward critical skills and methods. To me, it’s a very important part of university education, going much beyond media literacy. And media literacy is something about which I care a great deal. ...
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• Piccolo Teatro Lirico

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Italy has a new – short – twist on a centuries-old art form. A small, historic theater in Rome was having a hard time surviving when it turned to trills and arias to help keep it afloat: opera. But not the usual hours-long, mega-productions. Megan Williams visited the Piccolo Teatro Lirico in the city’s historic ...
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• Ocean’s 7 – “I Need That Girl”

  
  Grown Folks Musik — Authority: 154
  more about “ Ocean’s 7 – I Need That Girl “, posted with vodpod   Tagged: Jermaine DuPri, Nelly, Oceans 7, Trey Songz
  1 week ago

• غزل گفتی و در سفتی بیا و خوش بخوان حافـظ

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Thousands of people who play setar in Iran are against me," he said. "They say why add two more strings to the instrument? But I dont get upset with them. Hafez Nazeri, son of renown Persian singer Shahram Nazeri , is an Iranian setar player and composer . Tomorrow night, he will be the first ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cokes, Kit Kats, and Men’s Undies

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (gloecon36.mp3) Download MP3 My friend Steve Coleman has a brilliant strategy to limit his soda consumption: He stocks his refrigerator exclusively with Coca Cola. You see, Steve, aka “The Cone,” is a Pepsi aficionado. If The Cone has a Pepsi readily available, (or a Starbucks eggnog latte ...
  2 weeks ago

• Samasource: “Microwork” for the developing world

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (1112097.mp3) Download MP3 Samasource is a San Francisco based non-profit that matches businesses in the United States with people in the developing world that are looking for work. The idea is that socially responsible companies here can farm out “microwork” (small bits of labor that can ...
  2 weeks ago

• Baby talk, Ukrainian talk, and translated punk talk

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 598
  Download audio file (WIWpodcast72.mp3) Is this baby crying in German or French? A new study says we may be able to tell. The study was originally discussed on my sister pod, The World’s Science Podcast . It concludes that we begin language acquisition in the womb. At that stage, we are, well, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Neighborhood watch

  
  The Mex Files — Authority: 430
  “Pepe”, José Merino, El DeFe statistician, researcher and Chilanogolist (or, should that be “Chilangologico”?) puts together a color coded map of market services available from one segment of what the District Assembly is calling in their regulatory codes, “unsalaried workers”.  As with other markets ...
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• Jermaine Dupri – Living The Life (True Gamers Edition)

  
  Grown Folks Musik — Authority: 154
  more about “ Jermaine Dupri – Living The Life (Tru… “, posted with vodpod   Tagged: Jermaine DuPri
  2 weeks ago

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