Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
- We hear about the economic impact of the 2024 solar eclipse entrepreneurs across the path of totality.
- And our reporting from Baltimore continues—Gretchen Blough, customs broker at Logistics Plus in Erie, PA, describes how the closure of the Port of Baltimore is affecting business.
Marketplace Tech
Monday April 1: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Sarah Myers West, AI Now Institute, about the National AI Research Resource and what she sees as the dangers of private-public AI partnerships.
Wednesday April 3: Lily Jamali and Marketplace’s China Correspondent Jennifer Pak talk about the differences between the products ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, offers to the U.S. users versus consumers in China.
On Point
- Monday, April 1: Parents are getting criminally charged for mass shootings committed by their children. Could it make a difference in the nation’s gun violence epidemic?
- Tuesday, April 2: Since its federal legalization in 2018, the sports betting industry became a powerful force for the US economy, generating over $5 billion in taxes to date. But with growing concerns ranging from violence toward athletes to addiction, is it time to reconsider how we regulate sports betting?
- Wednesday, April 3: Pig Butchering is the term given to an online scam in which the victim is lured into making increasing financial investments in cryptocurrency before the scammer disappears. It’s estimated that the scam has netted $75 billion since the start of the pandemic–that’s more than the GDP of Myanmar or Cambodia, where many Pig Butchering operations are based. Now the criminal gangs are harassing US-based researchers trying to expose the scam. We hear from those involved.
The Splendid Table
April 5 – New episode
This week we’re spending time with two guests at very different stages of their careers and expertise. Jewish food authority Joan Nathan author of many books including her newest, a memoir, My Life in Recipes and documentarian Von Diaz author of Islas, A Celebration of Tropical Cooking. They have one thing in common. They both find that the most important stories in food are not found on the tables of grand restaurants, but rather in the homes and lives of regular people.
Classical
Performance Today
- April 1: PT presents an hour of music inspired by poetry
- April 2: Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and Leonidas Kavakos perform Beethoven’s 4th Symphony, arranged for string quartet, from the Verbier Festival in Verbier, Switzerland
- April 3: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performs George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, conducted by Louis Langree from Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, OH
- April 4: Catalyst Quartet performs 5 Fantasiestucke for String Quartet by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH
- April 5: Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya, performs Bonecos de Olinda by Clarice Assad at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY
APM Presents special of the week
How We Survive: The Worth of Water
Air Window: April 1 – June 30, 2024
In a station special adapted from Marketplace’s award-winning podcast “How We Survive,” host Amy Scott visits places across the West that must fundamentally rethink how water is divided up and used. Over the course of an hour, we’ll meet a couple scrambling to find an affordable water supply amidst a worsening drought and making the most of every drop. We’ll look at some of the tech innovations that could help us find a way out of the water crisis—which include looking to the ocean, the sewer and even the sky to produce drinking water. And finally, we’ll look at a growing movement, rooted in Indigenous values, to give nature—rivers, fish, crops and trees—the same rights as people, and what that might mean for the future of the Colorado River.
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