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Oh Grandma, what big teeth you have
Off the coast of Long Island's North Fork, the high-security Plum Island is known as "Mystery Island" TO locals but the first ever labor strike at the animal disease research facility there has brought attention and scrutiny to the laboratory's operations. Also: "I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood," wrote Charles Dickens, "I should have known perfect bliss." But as Catherine Orenstein shows in her book, "Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked," the heroine was not always portrayed so virtuously. She discusses how the tale changed according to sexual norms and moral values of the day. Then: during the Depression, the Works Projects Adminstration constructed astounding monuments to the common man -including pools. Before summer comes to an end, we'll look at the social and architectural history of New York city's pools.
AOL Takes Stock of Things
Lionel Barber, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, reports on the SEC probe into AOL-Time Warner
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Bill Bleyer, reporter at Newsday, demystifies the operations at the high security Animal Disease Center at Plum Island.
Sink or Swim
Jonathan Kuhn, director of Arts and Antiquities at the New York City Parks Department, and Laura Hansen, co-director for Place Matters, a project of City Lore and the Municipal Arts Society, tell the story of New York’s monumental WPA pools.
Wall Street Bash
Ethan Brown, staff writer at New York Magazine, looks at the growing club scene in the financial district
Never Mind the Knitting
Alex Zorn, head of the publishing wing of The Telegraph Company, a Brooklyn- and Pittsburgh-based music label, and publisher of the zine Needle and Hook, knits and loves punk music.
My, Grandma, What Big Metaphors You Have!
Catherine Orenstein, author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (Basic Books, 2002), discusses how the beloved bedtime story has changed according to sexual norms.
La Proxima Discusion
Gerson Borrero, editor of El Diario, talks about the bilingual debate next Wednesday between Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo.
La Proxima Discusion
Gerson Borrero, editor of El Diario, talks about the bilingual debate next Wednesday between Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo.
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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