19 posts tagged “npr”

I just realised I missed the Diane Rehm Show yesterday... And it was all about military contractors...

FYI: Military Contractors includes way too many mercenaries operating in Iraq with no oversight.

Found on the tumblr/radar site, a link to Boing Boing  and some awesome news...

A leaked NPR memo says that they'll be putting the presedential debates online without licensing restrictions

Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, they covered 2 topics that I have been craving, and having both together is awesome.  First was the HPV vaccine news/update and second was the CFL controversy: will saving energy cut down on coal power plants which release mercury counter the mercury in the CFL's themselves, when there is not a good/safe way to recycle that mercury and those used CFLs.

Awesome.

Yes, I heard this on NPR's Day to Day show.  I kid you not. 

I have plenty of friends interested in pursuing greener and more natural lives, away from preservatives and chemicals.  I only caught the end of the show, but I am glad they went over some of the risks of raw food for pets if the owners don't know what they are doing.

I thought that the best part of The Daily Show's bit after the video cut of Gonzales was the sheer number of times Gonzales said "I do not recall" (or some variation) as 41 (and I think that was before lunch, as Jon Stewart said?) or, as NPR cites Senator Schumer, at least 100 "i don't recall"s or "i don't know"s. 

Freaking ridiculous.

Ugh.  The Onion, news-mockery-extraordinaires, have taken aim at Ira and TAL

CHICAGO—Producers of the long-running Chicago Public Radio program This American Life announced Monday that they have completed their comprehensive 12-year survey of life as a modern upper-middle-class American.

In what cultural anthropologists are calling a "colossal achievement" in the study of white-collar professionals, the popular radio show has successfully isolated all 7,442 known characteristics of college graduates who earn between $62,500 and $125,000 per year and feel strongly that something should be done about global warming.

Here is the full story.

(great title: npr_junkies on LJ)

Listening to World Cafe tonight (and glad I made it back to my desk, laptop and radio when I did!)  Loreena McKennit is being interviewed, and listening to her live performances are amazing.  I am SO glad I bought tickets to see her in Chicago, May 1st!  My sister and I got center+front seats, too! 

I am most amazed at hearing the electric guitar in "Stolen Child"!!!  I need to pull this album up for my plasma donation tomorrow, and give it a re-listen.  Her visitations to *ancient* narrative poetry are my absolute favorite pieces of hers.

Whoa. One of the fangirls on my LJ friends list posted about the jrock revolution in LA over Memorial Day weekend.  Apparantly they have a myspace.

It's quite amusing that as I read/type this, I'm listening to This American Life on NPR and it's about a japanese pop star come to America and the drama around her.. (vox, myspace, facebook, youtube)

"One more reason to come watch Wait Wait Don't Tell Me at the Chase Auditorium...
Cuz Mayor Daley can call the bull dozers any ole' time he wants!"

Or something like that. I couldn't stop cackling witih glee at it.
I love Chicago Public Radio's Wait! ads!

I heard this on American Weekend on WNIJ and nearly died laughing, which was sort of dangerous seeing as how I was driving at the time. Definitely one of those great NPR moments.

While many people prepare to go Easter egg hunting this weekend in Chicago, professionals are gearing up in search of Canadian goose eggs. Over the last 20 years, the geese have been wreaking havoc on the local parks. After volunteers find the eggs, a select team of pros will "handle" the eggs to curb the overpopulation of the geese. Weekend America host Bill Radke speaks with Susan Hagberg, president of Wild Goose Chase, about how these geese have overstayed their welcome.

Special Web Audio

Follow Susan Hagberg as she goes hunting for goose eggs (1:46).
This might now be my favorite NPR program.

Wild Goose Chase is based out of La Grange, very near my home 'burb.