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Since the day Gennaro Lombardi made the fortuitous decision to flatten day-old bread and add chesse and sauce, pizza has been a New York staple. New York pizza is a breed apart, different from New Haven and Chicago varieties, and from its Neopolitan buffalo milk ancestor. Also on the show, while Bruce Sterling is primarily known for his science fiction, the line between fiction and real life isn't always so clear. But one of his predictions for the next half century is quite down-to-earth: we won't be cloning ourselves. We also discuss the poindextering of Poindexter, and of course all of the sunday talk shows.
What Say, Jay?
Jay Carney, White House correspondent, Time Magazine on the US’ confused policy toward North Korea.
Too Big to Swallow
New York City Councilman Alan Gerson, (D-1) on the recent EPA report that the air in lower Manhattan isn’t as bad as many think.
The Slice of Life
Ed Levine, host of WNYC's "Dish" and regular contributor for the Dining Section in the New York Times on the history of the New York pizza slice
Hitting Back at Big Brother
Matt Smith, staff writer for the SF Weekly on how retired Admiral John Poindexter, head of the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness Office got a taste of his own medicine
The Future is Now!
Science fiction writer, Bruce Sterling on his book, Tomorrow Now: Envisioning The Next Fifty Years (Random House, 2002)
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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 [41]
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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