December 2011
63 posts
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Listen“I firmly believe that this has got to be a...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“Safety relief valves serve a very important function. If they were to have an...”
–  Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on the reason for shutting down the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. (Story.)
Dec 28th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Listennprfreshair: An Annual Tradition: David Sedaris...
Dec 23rd
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Wordplay with Artist Mel Bochner →
bobedwardsradio: Master of the Universe (2010)Through April 8, 2012, visitors can experience conceptual artist Mel Bochner’s thesaurus paintings in the National Gallery of Art’s Tower Gallery in the…
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“My heart was pounding — and I’m not one of those rom-com guys.”
–  WGBH arts critic Jared Bowen reveals one of his favorite films of the year. And the digitalin goes to…. (Story.)
Dec 22nd
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Listen“I would make them the new freedom fighters...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Listennprfreshair: Audio for Terry’s interview with...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“What Kim Jong Il is doing is producing nuclear weapons to kill people in the...”
–  North Korea defector Kim Duk Hong to WGBH’s FRONTLINE in 2003. (Story.)
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Off-the-Beaten-Path Holiday Un-Hits →
Have a party. We (and you) finished the playlist. (Story.)
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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WGBH News’ Jared Bowen IS the man on the flying trapeze. (Story.)
Dec 14th
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“We see patients all the time with pseudomonas ulcers, gray green pus, they go...”
–  Professor of ophthalmology Dwight Cavanagh on why you should clean your contact lenses properly, which almost no one currently does. (Story.)
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Shot by Frontline editor Eric Gulliver in his spare time late Thursday night: Occupy Boston protesters say it’s an “evict-ory.” (Story.)
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“I don’t agree with them. If people want to work bad enough, I think they can...”
– A Walmart shopper in Weymouth, Mass. gives her take on the Occupy Boston movement. This town was almost evenly split in the 2008 presidential election, and politically hasn’t gotten any more united since. (Story.)
Dec 12th
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The surprising ingredient in raw cookie dough that could make you sick. Sigh. (Story.)
Dec 11th
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Listen“The rheumatoid arthritis was extremely,...
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Does Occupy Boston make the grade?
First we asked academics, politicians and activists to give us their Occupy “report card.” Now you can chime in. How would you grade the movement’s effectiveness? (Vote.)
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Listen“I am just getting by. And quite frankly the...
Dec 7th