February 2012
18 posts
“In nature, most seals are black, with relatively few white ones. The Navy’s...”
– http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/24/navy-seeks-a-darker-shade-of-seals/?xid=newsletter-daily#ixzz1nJbZFxTJ
Questions Remain In Coerced Worcester Confession
This story is a follow-up on a WBUR story reported in December: a 16-year-old Worcester girl charged with murdering her 13-month-old son. From the best radio reporter in Boston, David Boeri.
Crane's Foot
pedigree early 15c., “genealogical table or chart,” from Anglo-Fr. pe de gru, a variant of O.Fr. pied de gru ”foot of a crane,” from L. pedem acc. of pes ”foot” (see foot) + gruem (nom.grus) “crane,” cognate with Gk. geranos, O.E. cran; see crane). On old manuscripts, “descent” was indicated by a forked sign resembling the branching lines...
Watchthedailywhat:
Grammys: Ahead of their 50th anniversary reunion tour, Beach Boys Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks perform live on stage with Brian Wilson for the first time in over two decades.
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For Listening
NYC Take The A Train To Honor Duke Ellington by Robert Smith Is There Gold In Them There ‘Grillz’? by Mark Anthony Waters Amanda’s Diary: Girlfriend on Radio Diaries Once Naked For Nirvana, Now A Teen Spirit by Chana Joffe-Walt Steroids Hearing Turns to Discussion of Linguistics by Mike Pesca The Island Of Stone Money by Jacob Goldstein and David Kestenbaum
-via interview with crack reporter with...
January 2012
4 posts
Radio Journalist before the Hague
Joshua arap Sang, is a journalist working at a Kalenjin vernacular radio station, KASS FM, is the host of morning show “Lene Emet”, which means what is the world saying? According to Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor, Sang allegedly had a major role in the planning and organisation of crimes against PNU supporters by using his radio show (“Lene Emet”) both to gain...
Secretary Clinton Meets With Cultural Ambassador... →
December 2011
6 posts
Far Out, Nasa
Re: location of Voyager1: “the boundary between the solar wind from the Sun and the interstellar wind from death-explosions of other stars”
Steve scolds Ira Glass
Ira’s Emissions
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Air Date: Week of August 17, 2001 listen / download
A new website lets anyone compute his own contribution to global emissions. Host Steve Curwood talks with This American Life’s Ira Glass about his pollution profile.
Dutch Burns
In Britain, at the time of the Anglo-Dutch Wars in the 17th century, England and the Netherlands were at each other’s throats. At this time the English language gained a whole array of new insults (including “Dutch uncle”), such as:
“Dutch courage” (booze-induced bravery)
“Double Dutch” (gibberish)
“Dutch cap” (contraceptive diaphragm)
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Watch60 minutes says 1/3 of all homeless kids live in Florida.
PELLEY: It must be hard. 12 YEAR OLD GIRL: Yeah. But it’s not that bad… It’s just life.
Asian Carp are infamous for their invasion of the...
November 2011
11 posts
Kung Fu Panda
animalsbeingdicks:
Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend. He was so deadly, in fact, that his enemies would go blind from over-exposure to pure awesomeness!
Circus Over
Bill Keane started his career writing a war-time comic strip called, “At Ease with the Japanese” for the Army magazine called, Yank. Yank? something, something, gays in the military!
Humans have always been attracted to resonant...
smallcomfortsforhardtimes:
Penny & The...
October 2011
8 posts
I wouldn't send kids here. →
National Geographic: Celestial Valentine
“Like a bloom unfolding, the arms of the larger galaxy were stretched apart by the gravitational pull of the smaller one. Hot blue stars formed from the compressed gas and dust.”
September 2011
3 posts
"Other Asian"
Been filling in the wrong race bubble this whole time? “In 1975, Sri Lankan immigrants were classified for the first time as belonging to a category separate from “other Asian.” In that year, 432 Sri Lankans entered the United States.”
