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News
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
Week of December 5
- Kai talks to Claire Babineaux-Fontenot about the relationship between inflation and food insecurity, and how Feeding America is dealing with higher input costs and higher demand.
- Kai talks to Chloe Sorvino about her book Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat.
Marketplace Tech
Kimberly Adams and Meghan McCarty Carino host alternately.
- Dec 5: Meta Pixel is a widely-used code that many websites use to track the activity of site visitors. But it’s been shown to send sensitive data to Meta/Facebook, including names and tax and income information about individuals. An explainer of the Meta Pixel and a look at why some say it collects too much information.
- Dec 6: The last few months of the year are more prone for identity fraudsters. Then, there’s the recent breach of password manager LastPass. So how secure are our online lives, and what can we do to protect ourselves from fraud and identity theft?
- Dec 8: A feature excerpt of the Marketplace podcast How We Survive, from Amy Scott, about how CAT modeling is keeping up with the climate crisis and increasing natural disasters.
On Point
- Dec 5: For decades, most children in the US have been taught to read and write using a method called ‘balanced literacy.’ It encourages learners to choose books they’re attracted to and read alone, at their own pace, figuring out words from cues and context, not from sounding out words, aka phonics. There’s one big problem with this approach: decades worth of evidence that it doesn’t work. Why has it taken so long to acknowledge that and fix it?
- Dec 7: The Mauna Loa volcano, on Hawaii’s Big Island, is erupting for the first time in forty years. Volcano science technology has advanced a lot in the past four decades, so what are vulcanologists hoping to learn from the world’s largest volcano?
Arts and Culture
The Splendid Table
Repeat episode – December 9
- We have gift ideas for the food lover in your midst with The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner, and we take on all kinds of etiquette issues with the charming duo behind the podcast, Were You Raised By Wolves?
Timely Selections
Shareable video of the week
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People Fixing the World: Using artificial intelligence to spot breast cancer
- Description: Breast cancer is an increasing problem in low and middle income countries, but screening programmes for early detection are a rarity. A company in India has developed a cheap, non-invasive test that uses thermal imaging and AI. Although considered less reliable than mammography, it’s helping to get more women tested. For more solutions, download the People Fixing the World podcast Reporter: Chhavi Sachdev Camera: Rajesh Sharma Producer: Richard Kenny.
- Suggested social copy: How can artificial intelligence detect for breast cancer?
- Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds
Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.
APM Presents special of the week
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Broadcast Window: Dec 24 – 25, 2022
Length: Two hours
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols presents your audience with an opportunity to share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal Classical music. This special will be presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue, the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.