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Eiffel Tower at night (Chris Brookes/flickr)They Think, Therefore They Lose
What’s the problem with France? One of the country’s new cabinet ministers says French people think too much. An American journalist living in Paris and a French journalist living in New York compare notes with guest host Marty Goldensohn. Also, Vauhini Vara of The Wall Street Journal and Lifehacker.com’s Gina Trapani on 10 things your IT department won’t tell you.
Market Woes
As markets around the world have suffered losses over fear of a credit crisis, Floyd Norris, the chief financial correspondent for The New York Times, talks about where this problem stems from and whether this will lead to a global recession.
Runoff Worries
Wednesday’s heavy rainfall calls attention to NYC’s sewer system and the problem of stormwater runoff. Jarrett Murphy, investigations editor at City Limits, and Basil Seggos, chief investigator at Riverkeeper, discuss the issue and the options the city is exploring.
Riverkeeper’s "Sustainable Raindrops: Cleaning New York Harbor by Greening the Urban Landscape"
Jarrett Murphy’s report on stormwater runoff
Secrets of the IT Department
Wall Street Journal reporter Vauhini Vara spoke to technology and security experts to find out how to get around the rules of your office IT department and why in some cases you may not want to. She explains her findings with Gina Trapani, editor of the Lifehacker blog and author of Lifehacker, 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day.
Lifehacker, 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Vite Alors! Are the French Getting Faster?
In the action-oriented government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, has the old French habit of over-thinking become passé? Newsweek Paris bureau chief Christopher Dickey and France-Amérique editor Pascale Richard weigh in on the debate.
Follow Up: Blogging the Borough of Dreams
Queens bloggers have been overshadowed by their colleagues in Brooklyn. We attempt to remedy the oversight with Meg Cotner of OuterB and Joey in Astoria, Kel Sawyer of The Progressive Southside, and Steve Tiszenkel of Queens Central.
OuterB
Joey in Astoria
The Progressive Southside
Queens Central
Follow Up: Fighting Bankification
Council member Gail Brewer's Upper West Side district could be called the ground zero of bankification. She joins us to talk about her efforts to devise solutions to the excessive proliferation of banks at the expense of local businesses.
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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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