Food Scientist Harold McGee interviewed by Terry Gross.
This is the guy Alton Brown gets all his material from. He has a new book coming out. Super interesting interview.
An NPR discussion on the "writing style" of Twilight.
Surprisingly hilarious. There was lolling involved.
avatar and tik tok
i posted this on twitter and fb earlier, but thought i’d share with you guys, too.
NPR's Best Music of 2009 lists.
Of particular interest to me simply because they seem to be the only publication aware of the fact that jazz and classical music still exists.
Study: Your Brain Thinks Money Is A Drug
If you’ve ever thought of money as a drug, you may be more right than you know. New research shows that counting money — just handling the bills — can make things less painful.
Moby is streaming his new album on NPR.
People are tweeting reviews to #waitforme and early word is “his best since Play.” The question is… should we care?
NPR launches a jazz blog.
Though I’m still working my way through Blue Note records. I don’t have time for new jazz.
Animal Collective Live At 9:30 Club
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10 things I hate about NPR.
WFMU puts together a fairly solid list, though I disagree with 1, 2, and 3.
American Public Media's iPhone App
American Public Media has released a free app that streams a whole shit ton of public radio stations directly to your iphone. This means that even though I’m not allowed to stream NPR at work and the building is too dense to get radio signals, I can start listening to the news all day.
AAAaaaand WFMU!
SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
VP Debate Already To A Good(Fair) Start
The moderator of tomorrow nights VP debate, Gwen Ifill, stands to make money off of the election, should Obama win, with her new book.
But I’m sure she will still run a fair and balanced program.
I Heart NPR
they are interviewing top advisors from both the Clinton and Obama campaigns on NPR, and the difference between the two are staggering.
basically Clinton’s guy, Harold Ickes, was a total dick and avoided actually answering the simplest questions about the campaign. his answers were either short and pretentious or long and blundering.
Obama’s guy, David Something (sounded like Blupp – i didn’t catch it clearly), seemed to answer everything to the best of his ability and also seemed to be much more conversational and open about things surrounding the campaign.
it seems like more and more, All-Things-Clinton are annoying and off-putting. ugh. and there’s no reason to be dickish to anyone on NPR. they’re all so nice and cuddly and fairly-unbiased.