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Don't Call It a Hobby
Circuit Bending is more than making noise with plastic toys-- it’s serious business. The founder of casper electronics has created electronic circuit-bent instruments for the likes of Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo, and rapper Rahzel of the Roots. Plus: McCain’s foreign policy adviser on autocratic rule; Staten Island Representative Vito Fossella's political future; keeping families in touch via Facebook; and follow-up segments on gentrification in public schools, the vanishing neighborhood supermarket, and spiraling food prices -- how much is pure speculation?
McCain's Man
Robert Kagan, a chief foreign policy adviser to John McCain, shares his thoughts on the current election and his latest book, The Return of History and the End of Dreams.
Follow Up Friday: Commodities Speculation
A commenter on our website chided us for not exploring the connection between speculation in the commodities market and the world-wide food crisis. We follow up and explore this under-the-radar factor with James Galbraith, Professor of Government at the University of Texas.
Fossella's Future
Staten Island Representative Vito Fossella (R) is immersed in personal scandal. What will this mean for the political future of his district? Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio provides analysis.
K.I.T <3 M.O.M
With their families scattered across the country, moms are turning to Facebook, txt messages, and other social networking technologies to keep in touch with the kids. Michelle Slatalla writes the column Cyberfamilias for the New York Times, and explains what's changing in the tech-savvy family.
Live Wires
Pete Edwards, founder of casper electronics, explains the art of circuit bending: taking instruments and re-purposing them to make new, innovative sounds.
Follow-Up Friday: Where the Grocery Stores Aren't
Linda Gibbs, New York City's deputy mayor of health and human services, and José Serrano, New York State Senator (D, 28th district), talk about why so many supermarkets seem to be closing. Then, John Catsimatidis, the CEO of the Red Apple Group and Gristedes Foods, weighs in.
Read Answers to Our Question: What's Replacing Your Grocery Store?
FUF: Educated Perspective
We follow up on a segment earlier this week about the role of middle-income parents in helping their local public schools. Eva Moskowitz, a former City Council member, founder of the Harlem Success Academy, and mother of public-school kids, gives us her take.
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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.
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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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