The Pulse (Series)
Produced by WHYY
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554: Sharks — From Fear to Fascination, 7/26/2024
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Before dinosaurs, before trees — even before Saturn had its rings – there were sharks. The fierce predators have been swimming in our oceans for hundreds of millions of years, standing the test of time as they survived all five of Earth’s mass extinction events. Now, though, many of them face unprecedented threats, from overfishing to climate change. But there’s a movement underway to protect sharks — and to change their public image, which suffered after the classic movie "Jaws." On this episode, we explore the secret lives of sharks, and what can be done to help these ancient predators survive. We learn about the history of sharks, and what’s made them so adaptable; hear about how some fishermen are helping to save them; and find out what the historical record can teach us about the largest, most fearsome shark to ever exist — the megalodon.
Climate One (Series)
Produced by Climate One
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2024-07-26 Going for Green at the Paris Games
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The Summer Olympic Games are here! That means more than 300 events, ten thousand athletes and millions of spectatorscoming to watch. And the athletes are not the only ones with an Olympian task. The organizers of the Paris Games pledged to make their event emit only half of the carbon pollution of the 2012 London Games.
“As an independent researcher my job is not to make people happy, but to tell them some things that are uncomfortable sometimes,” says Martin Müller, Professor of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. The uncomfortable people in question are the members of the International Olympic Committee, whose offices are ten minutes down the road from Müller’s office.
“The Summer Olympics will be anywhere between 1.5 and 4.5 million tons of CO2 equivalent. That's roughly the equivalent of a relatively large city, such as Madrid.for a year,” says Müller. The largest share of those emissions come from spectators flying in. Paris’ central location at a hub of European rail networks may make it easier this year for the crowds to avoid flying. Another factor working in Paris’ favor is the fact that they have been building out mass transit for decades. The region is in the process of building 68 new subway stations in the city and the suburbs. Most won’t be open in time for the Olympics, but a new extension from Orly Airport into the city opened in June.
The second biggest source of emissions typically comes from construction. In the past, the Olympics have been synonymous with huge infrastructure projects and iconic structures like Beijing’s Birds’ Nest Stadium. For the Paris Games, the organizers decided to take a different approach. They renovated a number of existing venues and installed a lot of temporary structures that can be used elsewhere in the future. Author and journalist Henry Grabar says, “That might not sound like rocket science, but it previously has been an approach that the International Olympic Committee has not smiled upon.”
The big project, the Olympic Village, was built with a passive cooling system rather than traditional air conditioning, which consumes much more energy. The passive cooling system will probably be just fine for the local residents who will move into the apartments after the Olympics are gone; most Paris apartments have no cooling system at all. But no one really knows how the new system will perform in a heat wave. That has many teams worried, to the point where they have brought in their own air conditioning units. Henry Grabar says he hears athletes saying, “This is the biggest moment of my life, and so I need the room to be the exact temperature that I want it to be so I can get the perfect night's sleep before I have to go out there and literally be the best in the world at the thing I'm trying to do.”
Martin Müller suggests that it would be better if the Olympics had no audience – or at least, a much smaller, local one – in order to prevent most of the carbon pollution that comes from travel. But for athletes, the roar of the crowd can improve their performance.
“Athletes will not perform at the same level in an empty stadium as they would in a completely full Olympic stadium,” says Oluseyi Smith, a two-time Olympian. “But if it's a necessary trade off to ensure that the sport survives for the next 50, 60 years, I would say I'd like to think most athletes would be okay with that.” Smith is now a renewable energy engineer and Founder of Racing to Zero, a consulting group that focuses on environmental sustainability in sports.
In Beijing, the changes made for the 2008 Olympics had surprising environmental benefits that continue to this day.
“Prior to 2008, the air quality situation was pretty dire. Most days had exceeded what the Beijing government had identified as being a blue sky day,” says Angel Hsu, founder and director of the Data-Driven EnviroLab and teacher of public policy and the environment at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In preparation for the 2008 games Beijing expanded their mass transit, enacted rules that limited how many cars were allowed on the road, tackled heavy industry by shutting down a number of polluting factories, and tried to increase the use of renewable energy. At first, most of those initiatives were meant to be temporary. But once the people got a taste of clean air, the government made them permanent. Hsu says, “I was just in Beijing this past January and I mean, the skies are blue.”
A Way with Words (Series)
Produced by A Way with Words
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Hog on Ice (#1544)
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Ozark Highlands Radio (Series)
Produced by Ozark Highlands Radio
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OHR194: OHR Presents: Playlist One, 7/29/2024
From Ozark Highlands Radio | Part of the Ozark Highlands Radio series | 58:59
This week, a retrospective of the very first season of Ozark Highlands Radio featuring a variety of outstanding performances recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Host Dave Smith and OHR producer Jeff Glover provide context and commentary for this captivating collection.
Each year at the Ozark Folk Center State Park, we record many hours of live music. We cherish all of it, but some of these performances stand out as being uniquely interesting or moving. On this episode, OHR producer Jeff Glover guides us through some of the most memorable moments of season one. Featured on this show are: thumb picking guitar Jedi and country music legacy Thom Bresh; OHR guest host, writer, and renowned folk musician Aubrey Atwater; singer-songwriter Wil Maring with award winning guitarist Robert Bowlin; OHR host and our very own Dave Smith; Ozark originals The Lazy Goat String Band; Missouri folk sensations and Ozark originals Cindy Woolf & Mark Bilyeu; Outlaw Country star Malcolm Holcomb with multi-instrumentalist Jared Tyler; Ozark originals The Clark Family; world champion mountain dulcimer master Jeff Hames; writer, auto harpist and singer Bryan Bowers; and Ozark original husband and wife duo Lukas & Eden Pool.
In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, OHR host Dave Smith offers a 1975 archival recording of Ozark original musician, educator, country music legacy, and the original keeper of “the vault,” Mark Jones, performing the traditional tune “Arkansas Traveler” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives.
In his segment “Back in the Hills,” writer, professor, and historian Dr. Brooks Blevins presents a profile of renowned Ozark original folk singer Almeda Riddle, the voice of the Ozarks.
Earth Eats (Series)
Produced by WFIU
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EE 24-30: Connecting through food at the public library, 7/26/2024
From WFIU | Part of the Earth Eats series | 54:01
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“When you think of literacy and you think of what does that mean and what are all the parts of it– think about reading a recipe. Think about measuring the ingredients. Think about learning how to cook. Think about planning a meal, or budgeting for that meal.There are so many things that are learning-through-play, learning-through-doing-it, in a teaching kitchen. That’s the reason why we call it a teaching kitchen. It really is about learning literacy as well as some skills that are very specific to cooking.” This week on the show, conversations with an architect, a library director and the head of a food pantry about how a teaching kitchen found its way into a public library and what it means for the community.
Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio (Series)
Produced by Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio
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816: Welcome to Our Cocktail Hour! Bourbon Myths, Martini Crawls and Mixology Tips, 7/25/2024
From Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio | Part of the Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio series | 54:00
It's a very happy hour of Milk Street Radio: Chef Edward Lee returns for a tour of Kentucky’s bourbon distilleries, where the water is sweeter, the barrels are (accidentally!) charred, and the rickhouses are sacred territory. Plus, Gary Shteyngart recounts his wet, dry, twisted and dirty martini tour of New York City; Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette of “A Way With Words” reveal the surprising origin of the word “cocktail”; and J.M. Hirsch offers an innovative mixology tip.
Reveal Weekly (Series)
Produced by Reveal
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1031: The COVID Tracking Project Part 1, 8/3/2024
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no audio fileWith Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes (Series)
Produced by With Good Reason
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In Translation (half)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes series | 29:00
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In the 80s and 90s, many Puerto Rican poets who lived in the contiguous United States wrote within a fixed aya and aca/mainland vs. island story. The island was home. Jane Alberdeston Coralin (Old Dominion University) and other contemporary Puerto Rican poets approach their selves, memories and bodies as home. And: Latin American literature of the 60’s was complex and required active readers. By the 70s and 80s, the literature had conformed to the demands of the marketplace: it was localist, exotic and saturated with magical realism. Tomás Regalado-López (James Madison University) says that the 1996 Crack Movement transformed the marketplace for Latin American writers. It shifted things from a narrow stereotype to a land of endless possibilities. Plus: In the 1950s, a Californian poet named Jack Spicer did something wonky. He wrote the introduction to his book in the voice of long deceased poet Federico Garcia Lorca. And he took liberty to translate Lorca’s work as he wished. Scott Challener (HBCU Fellow) says that this inspired a generation of poets to approach translation as correspondence.
Planetary Radio (Series)
Produced by Mat Kaplan
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Subsurface granite on the Moon? The anatomy of a lunar hot spot
From Mat Kaplan | Part of the Planetary Radio series | 28:50
A decades-old lunar mystery gets an update in this week's Planetary Radio. Matt Siegler from the Planetary Science Institute shares his team's surprising findings about the granite formation that might lie beneath Compton-Belkovich, a thorium-rich hot spot on the far side of the Moon. Then Bruce Betts, chief scientist of The Planetary Society, shares What's Up in the night sky.
Discover more at: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2023-subsurface-granite-on-the-moon
Living Planet 05/04/2018
From DW - Deutsche Welle | Part of the Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW series | 30:00
LLiving Planet: Walk the Walk -
On the show this week: Climate protection is on the agenda at talks in Bonn. But back home, who's really taking action? We visit a budding environmental movement in Poland's coal heartland and find out how an oil pipeline has pitched environmentalists against the Canadian president. Plus, solar power in Kenya and a cool solution to LA's urban heat problem.
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Living Planet: Walk the Walk
Climate protection is on the agenda at talks in Bonn. But back home, who's really taking action? We visit a budding environmental movement in Poland's coal heartland and find out how an oil pipeline has pitched environmentalists against the Canadian president. Plus, solar power in Kenya and a cool solution to LA's urban heat problem.
Katowice: A coal town that wants to go green
The upcoming COP24 climate summit will be held in Katowice, deep in Poland's industrial and coal mining heartland. Its air quality is among the worst in Europe. But the town is trying to clean up its act. And if Katowice can go green, perhaps anywhere can.
Canada's First Nations vs. tar sands pipeline
Canadian President Justin Trudeau has been vocal about his commitment to climate protection. But now, he's coming to blows with environmentalists and the provincial government of British Columbia over a massive oil pipeline
Can reflective roads help LA keep its cool?
Los Angeles has the greatest density of cars in the US — and a massive network of roads. In summer the asphalt absorbs sunlight and heats up, warming the air above it, an effect that will be exacerbated by climate change. But cool paving could change all that.
Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW (Series)
Produced by DW - Deutsche Welle
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Living Planet 08/09/24
From DW - Deutsche Welle | Part of the Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW series | 29:59
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Scientists say cultivated, or lab-grown, meat could help shrink the massive carbon footprint that comes with farming animals for food. It could also abolish factory farming along with all its environmental and ethical downsides. So why the holdup?
Tara Austin
From WDSE | Part of the Radio Gallery series | 04:40
This week painter Tara Austin opens her new body of work "Boreal Ornament" in the George Morrison Gallery at the Duluth Art Institute. Along with Jonathan Herrera, Austin welcomes the public the opening on Thursday, May 10, with a reception and gallery talk from 6 - 9pm.
An MFA graduate from UW Madison, Minnesota native Austin brings the northland and Nordic traditions of rosemåling into her vibrant flora, patterned paintings. Listen for more about her process and inspirations and check her work on display at The Duluth Art Institute May 10-July 1.
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This week painter Tara Austin opens her new body of work "Boreal Ornament" in the George Morrison Gallery at the Duluth Art Institute. Along with Jonathan Herrera, Austin welcomes the public the opening on Thursday, May 10, with a reception and gallery talk from 6 - 9pm. An MFA graduate from UW Madison, Minnesota native Austin brings the northland and Nordic traditions of rosemåling into her vibrant flora, patterned paintings. Listen for more about her process and inspirations and check her work on display at The Duluth Art Institute May 10-July 1.
ClassicalWorks (Series)
Produced by WFIU
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ClassicalWorks (Episode 182)
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Jazz with David Basse (Series)
Produced by Jazz with David Basse, LLC.
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2424.3: Jazz with David Basse 2424.3, 7/26/2024 2:00 AM
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Open Source with Christopher Lydon (Series)
Produced by Open Source
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Political Football
From Open Source | Part of the Open Source with Christopher Lydon series | 50:28
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In the strangeness of mid-summer 2024, the cosmopolitan novelist Joseph O’Neill is our bridge between the Republican convention in Milwaukee and the Summer Olympics in Paris. He knows both sides of that gap: politics and global celebrity sports.
He’s famous as an amateur cricket player in New York, of all places, and as a writer about cricket and the many meanings of sports in general. His new novel, Godwin, is deep into soccer/football in a wild intercontinental search for the next superstar, the next Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappé.
Blue Dimensions (Series)
Produced by Bluesnet Radio
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Blue Dimensions M30: Summer Blues 2024
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In this hour of Blue Dimensions, a program of blues released in the summer of 2024, including a band called Bloodest Saxophone from Japan with singer Crystal Thomas. In 2019 Bloodest Saxophone released an album with five "Texas Queens" singing, including Crystal Thomas. On the new album, "Extreme Heat," she is the only lead singer, and a powerful one at that! Also: new music from Georgia bluesman Jontavious Willis from rural Georgia on his album "West Georgia Blues." We'll also hear songs from the debut album of singer and pianist Sonny Gullage, and one from veteran Chicago blues singer Willie Buck from his latest album, recorded in concert at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago. Plus: Shemekia Copeland, and Destini Rawls, a daughter of blues and soul great Johnnie Rawls, and a new single with Bobby Rush, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Dom Flemons, and Dustbowl Revival all together on a high-spirited old favorite.
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Feminine Fusion (Series)
Produced by WCNY
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S08 Ep49: Taking the Lead, 8/3/2024
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no audio fileDeutsche Welle Festival Concerts (Series)
Produced by DW - Deutsche Welle
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DWFC 2023 - 13: Highlights from "Parsifal": Bayreuth Festival, 12/25/2023
From DW - Deutsche Welle | Part of the Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts series | 01:57:58
You know you've composed something special when even your most vocal critics manage to find words of praise. Such was the case with Richard Wagner's last opera, "Parsifal." Written for his Bayreuth Festival Theater, the nearly five-hour-long work is a mystical drama with religious overtones set in the realm of the Holy Grail knights. This new production from the 2023 Bayreuth Festival features a star-studded cast including heldentenor Andreas Schager in the title role and Latvian soprano Elīna Garanča in her Bayreuth debut as Kundry. Jay Scheib is the director, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus, and soloist in excerpts from the opening night performance.
High Country Celtic Radio (Series)
Produced by High Country Celtic Radio
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High Country Celtic Radio 330 - Raggle Taggle #33
From High Country Celtic Radio | Part of the High Country Celtic Radio series | 59:00
Every ten shows, Katie Marie and Joe put together an hour of tunes and songs that we had to cut due to time from the last ten shows. For an extra treat, we also feature a bunch of new releases that we've received over the last few weeks.
This week's artists: Kathleen MacInnes; Oisín Mac Diarmada-Daithí Gormley-Samantha Harvey; Michael Black; Barry & Laura Kerr; Open The Door For Three; Anthony Quigney; Ad Vielle Que Pourra; Réalta; Nuala Kennedy & Eamon O' Leary; Elaine Reilly; Dan Possumoto; Roisin McGrory; Mick McAuley, Winifred Horan & Colm O Caoimh; Jerry Holland; and Patrick Street.The FairPlé score this week: 47
Celebrating the Birthday of Bucky Pizzarelli
From KCUR | Part of the 12th Street Jump Weekly series | 59:00
(Air Dates: December 31 - January 8) On this week's archive episode of 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the music of Bucky Pizzarelli with Bucky himself and his long time music partner Ed Laub. We'll play a game of "So, What's Your Question" with Ed and talk to Bucky about what gives him the blues.
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Public Radio's weekly jazz, blues and comedy jam, 12th STREET JUMP celebrates America's original art form, live from one of its birthplaces, 12th Street in Kansas City. That is where Basie tickled and ivories and Big Joe Turner shouted the blues. Each week, host Ebony Fondren offers up a lively hour of topical sketch comedy and some great live jazz and blues from the 12th STREET JUMP band (musical director Joe Cartright, along with Tyrone Clark on bass and Arnold Young on drums) and vocalist David Basse. Special guests join the fun every week down at the 12th Street Jump.
Notes from the Jazz Underground #44 - Jazz in Chicago, 2019
From WDCB | Part of the Notes from the Jazz Underground series | 58:00
With all of the internationally lauded Jazz coming out of Chicago these days, Notes from the Jazz Underground takes a look - and a listen - to some of the shining stars of the Chicago Jazz scene.
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With all of the internationally lauded Jazz coming out of Chicago these days, Notes from the Jazz Underground takes a look - and a listen - to some of the shining stars of the Chicago Jazz scene.