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ALL THE NEWS THAT ISN'T for February 6, 2010
February 8, 2010
This week on All the News that Isn't... who dat?! From Wisconsin Public Radio and PRI, Public Radio International.
Whad'Ya Know?
TTBOOK: Hive Mind
February 6, 2010
Thomas Seeley talks about the social organization of a bee colony.
Mary Seeley is setting up some new hives.
Len Fisher explains “swarm intelligence” and how it differs from “group think.”
E.O. Wilson’s book concerns the organization and communication among the millions of members of the colonies of certain species of ants.
Jaron Lanier thinks Web 2.0 technology is erasing our sense of our own identity.
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TTBOOK: Whose Islam Is It?
February 5, 2010
Former Iraqi Minister Alli A. Allawi talks about the challenges of the history and cultures of Islam.
Muslim stand-up comic Tissa Hami went from a career on Wall Street to the comedy club circuit.
Christopher Caldwell discusses the European discomfort with the rising tide of Muslim immigration.
Film-maker Chai Vasarhelyi followed Youssou N'Dour and his band and produced a documentary.
Kamran Pasha wrote about Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was very young.
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Marcia's Mushroom and Onion Tilapia
February 4, 2010
Guest chef Marcia Opien phones into the "Radio Kitchen" to share her recipe for Mushroom and Onion Tilapia!
zorba
Mozart in The Netherlands
August 27, 2009
In September 1765, the Mozart family set foot for the first time on Dutch soil. It was the final stage of their 'Great Western Trip' and was expected to last for just one month. It ended up becoming a much longer stay and the nine year old Wolfgang was lucky to escape with his life.
rnw
Six ways to Vermeer
September 18, 2009
Johannes Vermeer's reputation as a painter comes from just 36 paintings. It's a tiny number compared to most other great masters. However, each one is considered a masterpiece
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The Essence of Escher
October 27, 2009
Looking at his woodprints and lithographs of powerful black and white landscapes, clever abstracts or series of mind-boggling metamorphoses, it's hard to believe they were made by an artist who claimed he couldn't really draw.
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TTBOOK: Classics
January 29, 2010
Greil Marcus has edited a compendium of essays called “A New Literary History of America.”
David Thomson makes the case that “Psycho” was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
Michael Streissguth relates the story of how country music legend Johnny Cash gave his daughter Roseanne a list of 100 songs he considered essential.
Joan Schenkar’s biography of Patricia Highsmith shows that the author poured her disturbing impulses into taut, psychological thrillers.
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Moped
February 3, 2010
Nathan Isherwood owns a moped repair and retail shop in Brooklyn. He loves the modest motorbikes because they're easy to fix and they get 100 miles per gallon. Produced by Matt Frassica.
Design for the Real World
Jazz Goes to the Movies: A Look at Jazz Music & Musicians in Film
January 28, 2010
Get the popcorn ready, the curtain is about to go up on Hollywood movies with high level jazz performances on screen. In Billie Holiday's only big screen appearance, the 1947 New Orleans pairs Billie with Louis Armstrong in a romantic duo. Backed by a band of New Orleans Jazz lions, Billie and Louis offer a magnificent performance of "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?"
Riverwalk Jazz
TTBOOK: Lust For Life Lists
January 30, 2010
Jack Pendarvis reads from his essay “The Fifty Greatest Things That Just Popped Into My Head.”
Tom Moon chose 1000 recordings to hear before you die, and we hear some of his favorites.
Jay Parini created a list of books that significantly changed the literary climate of American culture.
David Thomson says his book is not just a list of the thousand greatest films.
Olivia Gentile’s book is a biography of Phoebe Snetsinger who saw some 8400 species of birds.
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Banana Berry Muffins
January 28, 2010
Don't miss this delicious recipe for Banana Berry Muffins!
zorba
ALL THE NEWS THAT ISN'T for January 23, 2010
January 25, 2010
This week, Whad'Ya Know? drops in on Waukesha, Wisconsin... but where's the gazebo? From Wisconsin Public Radio and PRI, Public Radio International.
Whad'Ya Know?
Southwestern Salmon Burgers
January 21, 2010
Tom and Zorba welcome guest chef, Elana Amsterdam, into the "Radio Kitchen" to share her gluten-free recipe for Southwestern Salmon Burgers!
zorba
TTBOOK: The Wonder of Physics
January 23, 2010
Richard Muller describes the President’s need to understand physics.
Robert Laughlin explains some of the ways that physicists think differently.
Mark Oliver Everett is the son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds.
Rebecca Stott’s novel considers aspects of the quantum world and its possible effects on ours.
A. Van Jordan’s poems touch on the lives of famous physicists like Einstein and Richard Feynman, and use comic book heroes like The Green Lantern and The Flash.
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TTBOOK: Teen Angst
January 22, 2010
David Bainbridge says a prolonged adolescence is unique to humans and one of our greatest evolutionary advantages.
Frank Warren has a blog that is focused on the secrets of anonymous contributors.
Rebecca Walker talks about her unconventional upbringing and how having a child of her own changed her feelings about it.
Eugene Mirman is an indie comic whose own experience of school gave rise to his nerd humor.
Laura Miller explains why “Twilight” is such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.
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Q-tips
January 20, 2010
Paola Antonelli explains the origins of everybody's favorite ear cleaner.
Design for the Real World
ALL THE NEWS THAT ISN'T 16 JAN 10
January 19, 2010
Michael made a pact with the devil for this week's "All the news that Isn't".
From Wisconsin Public Radio and Public Radio International
Whad'Ya Know?
TTBOOK: Religion in a Secular Age
January 15, 2010
Karen Armstrong says we've lost our sense of God as the ineffable.
Russell Shorto wrote about the life and work of Rene Descartes and what happened to his mortal remains.
Hope Edelman travelled to Belize to find help for her three year old child who was overly influenced by her imaginary friend.
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein are atheists and talk about the debates pitting reason against faith.
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Hot Jazz Down Under: Gems from Aussie Jazzman Bob Barnard
January 14, 2010
Bob Barnard's improvised jazz choruses on cornet are so perfect in form and execution that you might think they are composed. They're not. Barnard's technique is so elegantly efficient, the music pours out of him, seemingly without effort.
Riverwalk Jazz
ALL THE NEWS THAT ISN'T for January 9, 2010
January 11, 2010
This week on All the News that Isn't... it's been so cold, maybe the underwear bomber was just trying to stay warm... from Wisconsin Public Radio and PRI, Public Radio International.
Whad'Ya Know?
TTBOOK: Good Hunting
January 16, 2010
Don Waller teaches botany and environmental studies and discusses the role hunting has played in conservation.
Kim Hiss talks about her first hunt.
Bob Stout describes the feeling of being in the woods.
Frank Boll hunts Wisconsin wolves with a video camera.
Tina Bertoni took her children bear hunting.
Tim Gallagher goes hunting with a falcon named MacDuff.
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TTBOOK: Reality
January 9, 2010
Jonathan Lethem has created an alternate NY City circa 2004, with astronauts lost in space, aging child stars and a tiger stalking the Upper East Side.
Chuck Klosterman reexamines the Unabomber’s Manifesto and thinks there are some interesting ideas in his writing.
V. Vale is republishing author J. G. Ballard, considered a science fiction writer, but self-described as “picturing the psychology of the future.”
Brent Silby describes a view that suggests that our ‘reality’ is a simulation being run in a massive computer.
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TTBOOK: Great Reads
January 8, 2010
Philippe Petit was the wire walker who crossed between the twin towers in 1974.
Colum McCann’s novel “Let the Great World Spin” takes place on the day of Petit’s adventure.
Jayne Anne Phillips explains her interest in our perceptions of the many levels of reality we all live on.
Hillary Mantel wrote about Thomas Cromwell, Henry the Eighth’s “fixer,” who engineered his break from the Church of Rome.
Carlos Ruiz Zafonis is writing four inter-related novels involving the same characters and his native city of Barcelona.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes her early days as a writer and her experience as an immigrant from Africa.
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Snappy Sauteed Dandelions
January 7, 2010
See Dandelions in a new light when Zorba and Tom offer this wonderful recipe for Snappy Sauteed Dandelions!
zorba
Suitcases
January 6, 2010
Design critic Veronique Vienne gives an ode to suitcases as adventurous as the trips they go on.
Design for the Real World
TTBOOK: The Course of Time
January 2, 2010
Brian Swimme talks about the nature of time and the human obsession with clock time.
Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist who relates the stories he grew up hearing from his village elders and the astronomical legends of the Dogun people in Mali.
Novelist Jim Crace thinks the current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Ron Mallett is a theoretical physicist who wrote a memoir of his personal quest to travel back in time.
Fleda Brown reads her poem “For My Daughter’s 40th Birthday.”
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TTBOOK: Change Over Time
January 1, 2010
Carl Honore explains how we can all improve our lives by just slowing down.
Amy Gorman profiled six women who are involved in “Aging Artfully.”
Father Thomas Keating believes everyone ought to practice contemplative meditation.
Lera Auerbach fears the inexorable passage towards old age and death, and deals with it in her music.
Claire Tomalin’s biography of Thomas Hardy shows that his wife Emma’s death transformed the rest of her husband’s life.
92 year old editor Diana Athill provides some insights on aging.
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Last Call Late Night Jam: Live from Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
December 31, 2009
Often at late night jam sessions, when the bartender is about to give "last call," the best jazz of the evening is played. On a night like this, on the last Festival performance at Sacramento's Crest Theater, we captured these energized performances by trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, trombone legend Bill Allred and drummer Hal Smith.
Riverwalk Jazz
Roasted Duck Tacos
December 24, 2009
Give your holiday leftovers a face lift with this recipe for Roasted Duck Tacos!
zorba
Chicken Tortilla Soup with Lime
December 31, 2009
Warm up your New Year with this recipe for Chicken Tortilla Soup with Lime!
zorba
TTBOOK: Future Perfect: Our Peace of Mind
December 26, 2009
Jill Bolte Taylor describes her stroke as an unusual path to growth.
Richard Davidson is observing contemplatives with a brain scanner.
A round-up of some of the latest research into happiness, from economist Richard Layard and psychologists Robert Biswas-Diener and Sonja Lyubormirsky.
Satish Kumar says that the secret to a stress-free life is to take it at a walking pace.
Richard Schoch believes the way we think about happiness today is a thin, watery version of a deep and complex subject.
Al Green has spent his life testifying on stage and in the pulpit to the power of grace, love and happiness.
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TTBOOK: Alone Time
December 25, 2009
John Cacioppo says that loneliness is a signal as fundamental to our well-being as hunger and thirst.
Robert Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of Chile for a year.
Bill Friskics-Warren conducts a quick trip through some classic songs of loneliness.
Thomas Dumm thinks a lonely society can be a dangerous one.
Kathleen Norris describes Acedia, a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people.
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Santa Claus
December 23, 2009
Design guru Steven Heller explains how Father Christmas became branded as a jolly bearded old man in a red suit.
Design for the Real World
ALL THE NEWS THAT ISN'T for December 19, 2009
December 21, 2009
This week, we celebrate the holidays with a tinsel-laden ALL THE NEWS THAT ISN'T... from Wisconsin Public Radio and PRI, Public Radio International.
Whad'Ya Know?
TTBOOK: Future Perfect: Our Earth
December 19, 2009
Thomas Friedman explains why our current crop of environmental initiatives do not add up to a green revolution.
Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and forced people to reconsider what it means to be human.
DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica to document the effects of climate change on the continent.
Geir Haarde say his country has depended on thermal energy for centuries, and thanks to its hot springs, Iceland is 80 percent independent from fossil fuels.
Paul Hawken discusses the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.
Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and is dedicated to re-foresting Africa.
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