American Public Media

December 2011

14 posts

On Being Blog: Ten Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011 → blog.onbeing.org

beingblog:

by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

This year’s list of the top 10 most visited blog posts is dominated by two ideas: meditation and major news events. Half of this list, including the clear winner of Arthur Zajonc’s bell meditation, have something to do with the practice of mindfulness,…

Dec 30, 201131 notes

#Top 10 #blog #list #on being #krista tippett

The Perils of Drunk Walking

From the Freakonomics/Marketplace podcast:

For every mile walked drunk, turns out to be eight times more dangerous than the mile driven drunk. To put it simply, if you need to walk a mile from a party to your home, you’re eight times more likely to die doing that than if you jump behind the wheel and drive your car that same mile.

Just as important to note the next sentence:

Levitt is not advocating that people drive drunk instead.

Dec 30, 20115 notes

#freakonomics #marketplace #drunk walking #Stephen Dubner #Steven D. Levitt

“So to take something very much in pop culture, almost everyone knows that Justin Bieber has a girlfriend, a very famous girlfriend, Selena Gomez. You will not find a single mention of her in his [Wikipedia] article because of the very high stringent standards for verifiability, and that it’s actually very hard to find a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or USA Today article definitively saying they are boyfriend and girlfriend.” —Andrew Lih, of USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism

Dec 30, 20111 note

#marketplace tech #john moe #andrew lih #justin bieber #selena gomez #we must fix this

Dec 27, 2011

#performance today #fred child #calmus #New York Polyphony

Journalism without a map: Tip sheet: Talking politics with your family → publicinsightjeff.tumblr.com

publicinsightjeff:

A recent headline in the satirical weekly The Onion declared, “95 Percent Of Opinions Withheld On Visit To Family.” You know it’s true. We all have techniques for surviving political conversations at family gatherings (or avoiding that minefield altogether). We’ve been asking Public Insight…

Dec 22, 201128 notes

#politics #conversation #arguing #holidays #family

Dec 22, 201119 notes

#On Being #public radio #kate moos #krista tippett

Dec 16, 20117 notes

#annie rigg #turkish delight #c.s. lewis

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Dec 15, 20119 notes

#marketplace #kai ryssdal #tom mueller #olive oil #shhhllurp

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Dec 14, 201123 notes

#jug solo #sorry starbucks #garrison keillor #pat donohue #a prairie home companion

Dec 8, 20118 notes

#apple #cassette decks #ipad #marketplace tech #samsung #john moe

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Dec 5, 201116 notes

#doomtree #the current

Dec 5, 2011

#chris farrell #marketplace money

“If you remove all the empty space from an atom, you can put the world’s population into something the size of a sugar cube.” —

GZA, aka “The Genius,” the rapper and wordsmith at the core of the Wu Tang Clan, has a new title: lecturer. This week, he spoke at Harvard about (predictably) music and creativity but also (less predictably) science.

[The Dinner Party]

Dec 5, 20111 note

#the dinner party #the gza #wu tang clan

November 2011

17 posts

Nov 30, 20115 notes

#spot.us #public insight network #media #journalism

The best and worst of @Lynnebot

aakruse:

As a companion to The Splendid Table’s Thanksgiving call-in show, Turkey Confidential, we made a Twitter robot to answer common questions. Here’s how @Lynnebot, the cyborg version of Lynne Rossetto Kasper, did.

Nov 28, 20113 notes

#lynne rossetto kasper #lynnebot #the splendid table

“In such a case, the loss associated with bringing the scandal into the open now is large, immediate and easy to imagine, whereas the disastrous consequences of procrastination are both vague and delayed. This is probably how many cover-up attempts begin.” —

Freakonomics » Daniel Kahneman Answers Your Questions

Kahneman on Penn State.

(via felixsalmon)

Nov 28, 201145 notes

#daniel kahneman #freakonomics #penn state

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Nov 22, 201114 notes

#a prairie home companion #tom keith #garrison keillor

Nov 22, 20112 notes

#the splendid table #lynne rossetto kasper #turkey confidential #thanksgiving

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Nov 20, 201111 notes

#john hodgman #john moe #wits #that is all #wine

Nov 18, 20117 notes

#tom keith #a prairie home companion #garrison keillor