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News
Marketplace
Marketplace PM
Week of July 26
- Kai talks with Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, about nationwide food insecurity during the pandemic, and how ending government programs can affect hunger.
Marketplace Tech
- Throughout the summer, Marketplace Tech will have a rotating schedule of hosts during the summer months. Kimberly Adams hosts July 26-27, Meghan McCarty Carino hosts July 28-30.
- July 26: A new kind of technology is changing the way human waste is being processed around the world, and now more US cities are jumping on board. Rather than paying to haul away and dispose of the biproducts of wastewater treatment facilities, municipalities can use a process called thermal hydrolysis to turn that waste into gas and heat that can be captured and reused for energy, with a side benefit of creating fertilizer scientists say is safe for food crops. Washington, D.C. has the largest of these facilities in the world and the first in the U.S., although more on coming online soon. Marketplace Tech visits DC Water to see how it works, and what it means for the future of water treatment.
- July 27: When you search for someone notable on the internet, the first thing you often see on the search results is a link to their Wikipedia page. But if you’re looking for a notable woman, that might not be the case. About 1.5 million biographies are published on Wikipedia… but only about 19 percent of them are about women. Francesca Tripodi [tree-POE-dee] is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She wrote about this gender gap in Wikipedia in her recent paper Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia
The Daily
July 23: Day X – Is Germany’s “defensive democracy” strong enough to withstand the threat of the far right? In the last episode of Day X, Berlin bureau chief Katrin Bennhold examines what some think may be Germany’s greatest internal threat: the Alternative for Germany party.
On Point
- July 27: We head back to Portland, Oregon. One year after protesters took to the streets and federal agents stormed the city, how has Portland changed? What are the legacies that will outlast the protests? We’ll speak to on the ground reporter Sergio Olmos and hear voices from across the community.
- July 29: On Point explores how artificial intelligence could be on the front lines of future wars. The US, China, and Russia are developing new weapons and new ways to control those weapons using AI. We speak with John ‘Mike’ Murray, the first commanding general of the US Army Futures Command, and Gilman Louie, a tech entrepreneur and member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, about glaring problems with this still-emerging technological form of war.
- July 30: Part Six of On Point’s series, Amazon: The Prime Effect – From warehouse workers saying they are treated like robots to a corporate culture described as “brutal” and “bruising”, what does Amazon’s customer obsession mean for its 1.2 million workers? We’ll look at Amazon’s public efforts to squash unionization at warehouses, plus how Amazon’s corporate leadership development is transforming other companies. We also hear from Maren Costa, who the National Labor Relations Board found was illegally fired by Amazon last year, after 15 years with the company, and we talk to several current and former Amazon employees about what it’s like to work there
Classical
Performance Today
Between now and October 27, Performance Today audiences will hear new Piano Puzzlers every Wednesday.
Arts and Culture
Time Machine from The Current
Time Machine from The Current is a sonic journey across music history. Each week, host Bill DeVille takes listeners back to the sounds and events of a specific year.
July 30 – 1979:
- New bands emerged like the Pretenders and The Knack, who released what was probably the biggest song of the year. Prince released his 2nd album and had his first hit, it was a huge year in classic rock circles with Pink Floyd issuing the rock opera The Wall, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers dropped Damn the Torpedoes and Led Zeppelin released what would be their last official studio album. There was tragedy in Cincinnati, as 11 died at a rock concert by The Who. Disco was still here, with big songs from Donna Summer and Chic, and it was the year of rap’s first hit by the Sugarhill Gang – who borrowed a good chunk of Chic’s hit.
- Outside the world of music, 52 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran. Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime minister in the UK. It was good times in Pittsburgh – Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles – and Terry Bradshaw and The Steelers won the Super Bowl. Kramer vs. Kramer, was one of the most popular films of the year, and the hot gift was the Sony Walkman.
The Splendid Table
NEW episode – July 30: Summer Eating
- Alison Roman, the author of Dining In, brings us her best thinking around the warm weather kitchen.
- What’s the best hot dog in America? Food and culture reporter, Maura Judkis shares the results of their taste test
- Andy Baraghani of Bon Appétit Magazine explains the how’s and why’s of cooking seafood on the grill.
- America’s Test Kitchen takes on homemade ice cream sandwiches.
Timely Selections
Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care
One-hour
August 13, 2021 – September 30, 2021
In “Spotlight on Virtual Mental Health Care” we explore how mental health care’s urgent pivot to new technologies fared during the pandemic’s critical stress test.
Through interviews with expert clinicians and researchers, we will explore the fast-developing landscape of virtual mental health care — its advancements, and its challenges.
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