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• WGBH canceling folk? Say it aint so!

  
  Steve's 2 Cents — Authority: 428
  From Scott Alarik via Jake at the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse : As many of you know, WGBH will cancel its Saturday afternoon program, "Folk On WGBH" on December 1. This ends a historic commitment to American folk music on WGBH, that goes back to to the early 1970s. I want to urge you to contact WGBH, spread the ...
  2 days ago

• Cokes, Kit Kats, and Men’s Undies

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Samasource: “Microwork” for the developing world

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Baby talk, Ukrainian talk, and translated punk talk

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• WGBH provides guidelines for making educational media accessible

  
  Reading in the dark — Authority: 128
  Posted to the NCAM announcement list The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM) has written guidelines for content providers who would like to create accessible iTunes U media via captions, subtitles and audio descriptions. This guidelines document provides step-by-step ...
  5 days ago

• New PBS Documentary: Can Americans Be Happier?

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 587
  PBS has announced that a new series will air during the first week of the 2010 new year that examines the question, Can Americans be happier? This Emotional Life, a co-production of Vulcan Productions and the NOVA/WGBH Science Unit, unfolds across three, two-hour episodes, exploring the nature of the social ...
  5 days ago

• Doctors without Borders in Somalia

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  News of piracy and warring clans often overshadows another story out of Somalia: the suffering of ordinary Somali citizens, who often go without enough food, and without decent medical care. The Paris-based group Doctors with Borders, often known by its French initials MSF, has been operating a community hospital in ...
  6 days ago

• Istanbul struggles with gentrification

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (1109097.mp3) Download MP3 Some of Istanbul’s old neighborhoods are struggling to modernize. The Turkish government is razing buildings to make way for new homes. But in the process, some argue, the original character of the neighborhoods is being destroyed, along with the fabric of the ...
  6 days ago

• Berlin Wall Anniversary

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (history33.mp3) Download MP3 This week’s history podcast compiles the best of our stories commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Alex Gallafent chases down pieces of the original wall; Gerry Hadden returns to a border town he lived in before the wall came down; Susan Stone finds ...
  1 week ago

• How Happy is the Economy?

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (gloecon35.mp3) Download MP3 On October 29 th , the US Commerce Department announced that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, or GDP , grew by an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the quarter that ended in September. So by one measure, technically we are out of recession. But it sure doesn’t ...
  1 week ago

• WGBH plans to stay unique by doing the same thing as other stations

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 617
  WGBH tells the Globe that when the purchase of WCRB goes through, it will eliminate folk and blues programs because there are other outlets for that in Boston (so good news for WUMB, Bostons other other public radio station) and it wants to keep its programming "unique." And by unique, it means adding news and ...
  1 week ago

• Understanding Chinese, birds and Glaswegians

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (WIWnews5.mp3) For the latest newsy pod, Carol Hills and Clark Boyd from the Big Show help me pick our top five language-related stories from the past month: 5. Some birds develop distinct dialects based on the decibel levels of their habitats. Dialect here is a term of art. It does ...
  1 week ago

• Night Witches

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (1105099.mp3) Download MP3 We take you back to World War II for today’s Geography Quiz. We’re looking for the first nation to put female pilots into combat. This nation had three regiments of female pilots, and during the war they flew more than 30,000 missions. Their enemies called them ...
  1 week ago

• Remembering East Germany

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, young people in Germany don’t give a lot of thought to what was once known as the GDR or East Germany. The communist state once carved out a large portion of their homeland, dividing it not just geographically, but also ideologically. But now few know much about a ...
  1 week ago

• Ghana’s first skier off to the Olympics

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong may have been born in the Scottish city of Glasgow, but he grew up in the Accra, Ghana. But that never stopped him from dreaming of becoming a professional skier. He honed his skills on an artificial slope in Britain. And now, the “snow leopard” as he’s known will be Ghana’s one-man ...
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• A return to the East German border

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Berlin, only a tiny stretch of the wall remains as a memorial. From 1961 to 1989, 89 people were killed trying to escape over it. Such attempts are well documented. But a less talked about Cold War border was even deadlier. We’re referring to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zen archers take aim in Manhattan

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Before there was Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , there was the original: Zen in the Art of Archery . The 1953 book chronicled the story of Eugen Herrigel, a German who traveled to Japan to learn Kyudo, the way of the bow. But you don’t have to go that far. The World’s Alex Gallafent visits a zen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Visiting Colombia’s national parks

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Despite the country’s dangerous reputation, the tourist business is booming in Colombia. The capital Bogotá and port city of Cartagena have both noted upticks in tourism. But some of the country’s most spectacular sights, like the Caño Cristales River, are located in former war zones and are still struggling ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tech Podcast 265: “Internet’s” birthday, 40 years of modulated anarchy

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (WTPpodcast265.mp3) Download MP3 Wow. It’s not often the Technology Podcast gets to celebrate the very reason, figuratively and literally, for its existence. But this week, the Internet celebrated its 40th anniversary/birthday/whatever you want to call it. That’s UCLA’s Leonard ...
  2 weeks ago

• One Spanish town’s recession

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  Download audio file (1029097.mp3) Download MP3 In Spain the economic crisis is hitting small towns particularly hard. Many villages got rich during the country’s housing boom. And they assumed they’d keep getting richer. So they borrowed lots of money. But then real estate went bust and their collateral, ...
  2 weeks ago

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