Julie Salamon
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Journalist Julie Salamon wrote about her year following the action at Brookyn’s Maimonides Hospital in Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids and talked about it on The Brian Lehrer Show, 5/28/2008.
Makalé Faber-Cullen
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Makalé Faber-Cullen, director of programs at Slow Food USA, joined guest host Marty Goldensohn on The Brian Lehrer Show, to talk about the effort to preserve endangered foods by getting them on more dinner plates, 5/27/2008.
I’m the sort of traveler that books the ticket but doesn’t really think about the upcoming trip until I set foot on the foreign soil. I realized, fairly early on, that my usual game plan wasn’t going to work in Uganda.
I had to morph into a boy scout on steroids with my preparation or […]
Evan Mason
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Evan Mason, special projects coordinator at Landmark West, drops by the the Brian Lehrer Show to talk about the environmental benefits of green spaces behind city buildings. She and Brian were joined on the phone by Dr. William Solecki, director of CUNY’s Institute for Sustainable Cities.
Benjamin Nugent
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From pocket protectors to Klingon as a second language, the stereotype of the nerd is firmly embedded in American culture. But how realistic is it? And don’t nerds–creators of the Internet, inventors of the smartphone–really rule the world? Benjamin Nugent, author of American Nerd: The Story of My People, talks about […]
Andrew Jenks
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The exchange of talent from Japanese baseball to the MLB can go both ways. Andrew Jenks, director of the new documentary The Zen of Bobby V, discusses the former Mets manager’s experience as a coach for a Japanese squad on the Brian Lehrer Show, 5/19/08
In Kampala with a population of 2 million there is no government operated bus system. The city is trying to introduce buses but, at the moment, only possesses 7 of them. Think about that for a moment. – 7 buses for 2 million people.
I did not see one of the magnificent seven but I […]
Victoria in Kampala tries on Brian Lehrer Show T-shirt
I love radio, you know, really love it. You just don’t get the stories across quite as effectively in any other medium. I’m from Ireland, a place with an oral tradition where radio is part of life. I came to the US and found a career with […]
Here’s a visual representation of the responses we got when we asked listeners to provide one word of wisdom to college graduates. Click on the image below to view the larger version of the cloud.
So you’re in your New York apartment and although it’s 2am, the pipes are banging, the car alarm and fire truck insist on demonstrating their blaring acoustic capabilities on regular intervals, and maybe even a police helicopter, insistently hovering, in the wee hours for who knows what reason……
Things are different here. Take a listen […]