Tag Archives: National Public Radio
No pulse, no heart beat: Abigail’s heart is two centrifugal pumps
Tweet If this article from National Public Radio‘s Carrie Feibel isn’t Ossome, I don’t know what is… “…Abigail is an 8-month-old calf with a soft brown coat whose heart was removed and replaced with two centrifugal pumps…Dr. Billy … Continue reading
Will the Administration’s Bet on Green Technologies create Jobs?
Tweet from Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio comes an assessment of the risk the Obama administration is taking in betting green technology will create jobs in the future… “The White House is gambling that one or more of these technologies … Continue reading
Holding Back the Sea, One Oyster Shell At a Time
Tweet and award-winning journalist Richard Harris writes in the Science newsletter of National Public Radio… “The Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 154,000 acres of marshland and a rare type of lowland forest called pocosin. It’s just about the only place on Earth … Continue reading
Fleet Foxes and their new album ‘Helplessness Blues’
Tweet thanks to National Public Radio‘s ‘First Listen’ we can hear from Seattle’s Fleet Foxes “It’s been nearly three years since Fleet Foxes’ self-titled debut catapulted the band from small clubs to massive sold-out shows and the stage of Saturday Night Live…The making … Continue reading
Josh Ritter and his Tiny Desk Concert
Tweet …the Tiny Desk Concerts come to us courtesy of National Public Radio, for which I thank them… “The gifted singer-songwriter carries himself with the bearing of a folk-singing mayor: gregarious, charming, down-to-earth and impeccably dressed, with a gift for … Continue reading
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Tweet From National Public Radio, Mito Habe-Evans brings us the story of the lost Beatles photos. “…memorabilia specialist and author Larry Marion brings us The Lost Beatles Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive, 1964-1966. …a handful of which have never seen … Continue reading
pi is not the loneliest number
Tweet “This year, to celebrate PI day, musician Michael John Blake had the idea to compose… a musical interpretation of the most famous mathematical constant. His approach? He decided the song would be in C, then assigned each note a … Continue reading