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Webby Events of the New Millenium
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
As the end of 2009 draws near, the year-end lists will be doubled by the decade-end lists, gracing magazine covers, blog posts, newspaper columns, and text messages. It has been a heck of a decade for the internet.
That hasn’t slipped the notice of the folks at the Webby Awards, which honors excellence in websites, interactive advertising, and online film and video. This morning, the webby awards released its picks for the internet moments of the decade, and David Michael Davies, Executive Director of the Webby Awards is here to run through them.
The Webby Awards: Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade
Word of Mouth's internet shirpa Brady Carlson offers More Ways the Web Changed Us
(Photo courtesy Hobvias Sudoneighm via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
As the end of 2009 draws near, the year-end lists will be doubled by the decade-end lists, gracing magazine covers, blog posts, newspaper columns, and text messages. It has been a heck of a decade for the internet.
That hasn’t slipped the notice of the folks at the Webby Awards, which honors excellence in websites, interactive advertising, and online film and video. This morning, the webby awards released its picks for the internet moments of the decade, and David Michael Davies, Executive Director of the Webby Awards is here to run through them.
The Webby Awards: Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade
Word of Mouth's internet shirpa Brady Carlson offers More Ways the Web Changed Us
(Photo courtesy Hobvias Sudoneighm via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Young, Gifted, and Unemployed
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
We've heard a number of stories about people who are out of work over the past year. Families on the edge of foreclosure, retirees who’ve lost their life savings, and people starting again from scratch.
The young and the unemployed have it easy in comparison. Or maybe not. The youth job market has lost 2 point five million jobs to the financial crisis. Among 16-to-24 year olds, unemployment is now just under 20 percent, leading to articles bemoaning "dead end kids," or “the lost generation”.
Lizzy Ratner, is a freelance writer whose reporting on the young and out of work is pulled together in an article called "Generation Recession" for The Nation. We're talking with her as part of NHPR's Working It Out project.
Have we changed as a result of the economic downturn? That's the question behind the Working It Out project this week. Jon Greenberg will pick that question up in a live Working It Out special this Friday at noon on NHPR.
The Nation: Generation Recession
The New York Times: Generation OMG
BusinessWeek: The Lost Generation
Guardian UK: One in Six Young People Not in Work or Education
Social Issues Research Centre: Generation Recession (pdf)
(Photo courtesy Kate Gardiner via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
We've heard a number of stories about people who are out of work over the past year. Families on the edge of foreclosure, retirees who’ve lost their life savings, and people starting again from scratch.
The young and the unemployed have it easy in comparison. Or maybe not. The youth job market has lost 2 point five million jobs to the financial crisis. Among 16-to-24 year olds, unemployment is now just under 20 percent, leading to articles bemoaning "dead end kids," or “the lost generation”.
Lizzy Ratner, is a freelance writer whose reporting on the young and out of work is pulled together in an article called "Generation Recession" for The Nation. We're talking with her as part of NHPR's Working It Out project.
Have we changed as a result of the economic downturn? That's the question behind the Working It Out project this week. Jon Greenberg will pick that question up in a live Working It Out special this Friday at noon on NHPR.
The Nation: Generation Recession
The New York Times: Generation OMG
BusinessWeek: The Lost Generation
Guardian UK: One in Six Young People Not in Work or Education
Social Issues Research Centre: Generation Recession (pdf)
(Photo courtesy Kate Gardiner via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Your Skull in Resin
By Jen Nathan on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
When a surgeon steps into the operating room, what lies under a patient’s skin is a bit of a mystery. Medical modeling is helping tunlock the unknown with 3-D models based on a patient’s actual anatomy.
Surgeons can hold these models in their hands in pre-op and use them to plan and rehearse surgery, all of which can save precious time in the operating room. Word of Mouth’s Jen Nathan visited one of North Carolina’s top manufacturers to find out more.
(Photo courtesy Anatomics)
When a surgeon steps into the operating room, what lies under a patient’s skin is a bit of a mystery. Medical modeling is helping tunlock the unknown with 3-D models based on a patient’s actual anatomy.
Surgeons can hold these models in their hands in pre-op and use them to plan and rehearse surgery, all of which can save precious time in the operating room. Word of Mouth’s Jen Nathan visited one of North Carolina’s top manufacturers to find out more.
(Photo courtesy Anatomics)
Why Not Open a Restaurant?
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
The restaurant business is a crap shoot. Three out of four restaurants close within three years. So, it might seem downright nuts to open a new restaurant during the worst recession since the great depression.
Food writer Regina Schrambling discovered that some savvy owners of new eateries are doing brisk business by serving up simplicity. She wrote about the trend in Entrepreneur magazine, and she joins us as part of NHPR’s Working It Out project. We also hear from Diane Downing, owner of Firefly American Bistro & Bar, which opened in downtown Manchester, NH the day after Christmas of last year.
Entrepreneur: Why Now is the Time to Open a Restaurant
The Eagle Tribune: New Restaurants Replace Closed Eateries
Forbes: So, You Want To Open A Restaurant
(Photo courtesy Joe Penniston via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
The restaurant business is a crap shoot. Three out of four restaurants close within three years. So, it might seem downright nuts to open a new restaurant during the worst recession since the great depression.
Food writer Regina Schrambling discovered that some savvy owners of new eateries are doing brisk business by serving up simplicity. She wrote about the trend in Entrepreneur magazine, and she joins us as part of NHPR’s Working It Out project. We also hear from Diane Downing, owner of Firefly American Bistro & Bar, which opened in downtown Manchester, NH the day after Christmas of last year.
Entrepreneur: Why Now is the Time to Open a Restaurant
The Eagle Tribune: New Restaurants Replace Closed Eateries
Forbes: So, You Want To Open A Restaurant
(Photo courtesy Joe Penniston via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Scoring Corporations on Climate Change
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
Every time we go to the store, we face a myriad of decisions. Single or two-ply? Earth-friendly or generic? Organic or eco-safe? It’s not easy to discern the most environmentally friendly products and companies from those in green-friendly packaging.
ClimateCounts is working to change that. Every year, the Manchester-based non-profit releases a scorecard of Fortune 500 companies, like Levi Strauss and Microsoft, and ranks their climate change efforts. Everything from a company’s green house gas emissions to its engagement in public policy discussions get a mark on the scorecard.
As part of our next green thing series, Wood Turner, ClimateCount’s Executive Director, is with us in the studio to roll out this year’s scores for a Word of Mouth exclusive. We also spoke with Michael Kobori, VP for Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss and Microsoft’s Director of Environmental Sustainability, Steve Lippman.
(Photo courtesy Jim via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Every time we go to the store, we face a myriad of decisions. Single or two-ply? Earth-friendly or generic? Organic or eco-safe? It’s not easy to discern the most environmentally friendly products and companies from those in green-friendly packaging.
ClimateCounts is working to change that. Every year, the Manchester-based non-profit releases a scorecard of Fortune 500 companies, like Levi Strauss and Microsoft, and ranks their climate change efforts. Everything from a company’s green house gas emissions to its engagement in public policy discussions get a mark on the scorecard.
As part of our next green thing series, Wood Turner, ClimateCount’s Executive Director, is with us in the studio to roll out this year’s scores for a Word of Mouth exclusive. We also spoke with Michael Kobori, VP for Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss and Microsoft’s Director of Environmental Sustainability, Steve Lippman.
(Photo courtesy Jim via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
LSD as Therapy
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
In the fall of 1965, Harvard professor Timothy Leary embarked on the Harvard Psilocybin Project in the hopes of finding new ways to reform convicted criminals, treat alcoholism, and help the population at large.
Leary’s project was shut down, but decades later, hallucinogens retained their mystique in popular culture. Benicio del Toro espoused the benefits of LSD to client Hunter S. Thompson, played by Johnny Depp, in the 1998 cult favorite Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Your attorney probably won’t recommend a dose of whatever’s in that brown bottle, but your doctor might. The medical and psychological community is studying hallucinogenics with renewed interest. The journal Neurology recently reported that LSD can be more effective than migraine medication for treating cluster headaches, and a study from the University of Arizona found that psychedelic mushrooms can offer temporary relief from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Arran Frood has been investigating the mental health community’s acceptance of hallucinogens for the Telegraph UK and joins us on the line now from England with more on the mental health community’s renewed interest in hallucinogenic drugs.
Telegraph UK: Can mind-altering drugs have mental health benefits?
Nature News: Ecstasy could augment the benefits of psychotherapy
Nature News: Illegal drug shows promise in treating trauma symptoms
The Independent: LSD Cured My Headache
(Photo courtesy Mod as Hell via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
In the fall of 1965, Harvard professor Timothy Leary embarked on the Harvard Psilocybin Project in the hopes of finding new ways to reform convicted criminals, treat alcoholism, and help the population at large.
Leary’s project was shut down, but decades later, hallucinogens retained their mystique in popular culture. Benicio del Toro espoused the benefits of LSD to client Hunter S. Thompson, played by Johnny Depp, in the 1998 cult favorite Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Your attorney probably won’t recommend a dose of whatever’s in that brown bottle, but your doctor might. The medical and psychological community is studying hallucinogenics with renewed interest. The journal Neurology recently reported that LSD can be more effective than migraine medication for treating cluster headaches, and a study from the University of Arizona found that psychedelic mushrooms can offer temporary relief from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Arran Frood has been investigating the mental health community’s acceptance of hallucinogens for the Telegraph UK and joins us on the line now from England with more on the mental health community’s renewed interest in hallucinogenic drugs.
Telegraph UK: Can mind-altering drugs have mental health benefits?
Nature News: Ecstasy could augment the benefits of psychotherapy
Nature News: Illegal drug shows promise in treating trauma symptoms
The Independent: LSD Cured My Headache
(Photo courtesy Mod as Hell via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Docs Who Rock
By Jen Nathan on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.These funk meisters are more than guitar heroes. They’re also soon-to-be doctors and orthodontists from Philadelphia’s most prestigious medical schools. The band Freaks of Nurture pick up their guitars, horns, and electric bass when they’re not learning how to perform surgery or treat hypertension.
Sadly, there was no winner at this year’s Med School Battle of the Bands. The Aerosmith and Black Eyed Peas covers were too compelling to pick just one stand-out band.
Here's a highly amusing YouTube video of doctors getting down to these funky sounds.
Who would you pick as the winner of the uber-competitive Med School Battle of the Bands?
(Photo courtesy Abdallah Aberouch via Flickr/CreativeCommons)
Pecan Pie and Community
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
In the rural town of Greensboro, Alabama, a group of designers is hard at work, baking pies. Three full-time volunteers run an innovative experiment called PieLab: part design studio and part pie shop.
Local residents come in for a thick slice of chocolate peanut butter banana cream or good old sweet potato pie. Then they sit and talk about issues facing their community. The designers hear their challenges and work with them on finding solutions.
It’s an idea that appealed to our curiosity and our stomachs, so we called them up to find out more. Joining us is Amanda Buck, one of the designers and bakers at PieLab.
Fast Company: PieLab in Rural Alabama Serves Up Community, Understanding, and, Yes, Pie
Read Amanda's recipe for fig, goat cheese and honey pie in a lemon crust
PieLab Promo from Project M on Vimeo.
(Photo courtesy of PieLab)
In the rural town of Greensboro, Alabama, a group of designers is hard at work, baking pies. Three full-time volunteers run an innovative experiment called PieLab: part design studio and part pie shop.
Local residents come in for a thick slice of chocolate peanut butter banana cream or good old sweet potato pie. Then they sit and talk about issues facing their community. The designers hear their challenges and work with them on finding solutions.
It’s an idea that appealed to our curiosity and our stomachs, so we called them up to find out more. Joining us is Amanda Buck, one of the designers and bakers at PieLab.
Fast Company: PieLab in Rural Alabama Serves Up Community, Understanding, and, Yes, Pie
Read Amanda's recipe for fig, goat cheese and honey pie in a lemon crust
PieLab Promo from Project M on Vimeo.
(Photo courtesy of PieLab)
From High School to High Security
By Reginald Dwayne... on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
Reginald Dwayne Betts went from the high school honor roll to the penitentiary. He spent nine years in prison beginning at age 16 for a carjacking in Virginia. He’s the first person in his family to graduate from college, but memories of prison still haunt him.
You can listen to it at the Public Radio Exchange.
(Photo by Jenn Vargas)
The Return of Fine Cider
By Avishay Artsy on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
Thanksgiving is just over a week away. A day when many of the grateful wash down turkey and stuffing with a glass of wine, or celebrate visits from old friends over a cold beer, or two.
One New Hampshire farmer hopes we’ll try sipping on artisanal cider instead. Hard cider is a New England tradition that dates back to the Founding Fathers, and as falling apple prices leave orchard owners struggling to stay afloat, a cider revival could provide a lifeline to New Hampshire growers.
Word of Mouth producer Avishay Artsy went to taste for himself.
(Photos by Scott McIntyre)
Thanksgiving is just over a week away. A day when many of the grateful wash down turkey and stuffing with a glass of wine, or celebrate visits from old friends over a cold beer, or two.
One New Hampshire farmer hopes we’ll try sipping on artisanal cider instead. Hard cider is a New England tradition that dates back to the Founding Fathers, and as falling apple prices leave orchard owners struggling to stay afloat, a cider revival could provide a lifeline to New Hampshire growers.
Word of Mouth producer Avishay Artsy went to taste for himself.
(Photos by Scott McIntyre)
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