Your week at a glance: April 25 – May 1, 2022

Here are the latest updates for upcoming programs. PLEASE NOTE: All details are subject to change. Additional details will be shared via ContentDepot as they become available.

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News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Week of April 25

  • Why don’t we have disaggregated measures of inflation – how much people spend based on their income and where they live? Kai explains, along with what it would look like if we did.
  • Kai talks with Anna Stansbury about a new working paper on socioeconomic diversity in economics.

Marketplace Tech

  • Meghan McCarty Carino will host Marketplace Tech April 25-26, and Kimberly Adams hosts the program April 27-29.
  • April 25: Meghan McCarty Carino reports on how companies like IBM are increasingly evaluating candidates based on their skills instead of college degrees or other accolades. Skills-first hiring focuses on specific talents candidates might bring to a company, but filtering for those skills during the recruitment process can be a challenge. Still, this approach might lower barriers to IT jobs and help diversify the tech industry.
  • April 26: Marketplace Tech interviews Egill Hauksson, research professor of geophysics, about earthquake detection technology. Earlier this month, a group of researchers at Stanford University published a report about their deep-learning algorithm that “de-noises” cities and detects earthquakes – trained on 80,000 datasets. Late last year, another group of researchers from Penn State also published a report about their earthquake detection technology that they have been working on from a lab. But overall, earthquake detection technology still isn’t where it needs to be. We’ll get into why that is.

On Point

  • April 25: Social psychologist Jonathan Haight joins Meghna to talk about the impact that social media is having on society in the US, or as the title of a recent piece he wrote for The Atlantic puts it, “Why the past ten years of American life have been uniquely stupid.”
  • April 27: We look at NATO’s last big expansion in the mid 1990’s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and ask about the role that played in creating the current dynamic between Russia, Europe, and the US.
  • April 28: On Point takes a deep dive into the consequences and challenges of Sweden and Finland saying that they are applying for NATO membership, in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Given the history, should they be admitted? .

Arts and Culture

Time Machine from The Current

April 29 – 1965

  • The Time Machine makes a stop in 1965 this time…It was a huge year for Bob Dylan, he made not one, but two classic albums in the same year, He got booed a lot too, for plugging in his guitar. Motown was selling records like hotcakes with releases from The Supremes, The Four Tops and others. British Invasion bands dominated the airwaves, as The Beatles made their 2nd film, played to 55,000 at Shea Stadium and released the excellent Rubber Soul album, The Rolling Stones had their biggest hit yet on a song that came to Keith Richards in his sleep. The Who issued their debut album and the Animals and the Kinks emerged. Little Milton and Petula Clark had their biggest year. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass ruled the Easy Listening world.
  • Beyond the world of music: The Sound of Music was the biggest film of the year and Bonanza was the most popular show on TV. It’s all 1965 our year on this episode of Time Machine from The Current.

The Splendid Table

Repeat episode – April 29: Japanese Home Cooking

  • This week, we are talking about Japanese home cooking– and not ramen or sushi. Sonoko Sakai, the author of Japanese Home Cooking, tells us about the Japanese curry everyone makes at home.
  • Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying, authors of The Gaijin Cookbook, give us a lesson in Japanese kid-food.
  • Chef Shintaro of NYC’s Bar Moga teaches us how to make the delicious fried rice omelet, omurice.

Timely Selections

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Melodies of Freedom

Broadcast Window: April 5 – April 30, 2022
Length: One hour

Melodies of Freedom is a musical celebration of Passover that will explore the power of music to bring people together.

Featured music includes A Seder for Peace by Stewart Grant written for a seder that brought together Israelis and Palestinians, Christians, Muslims, and Jews for the cause of peace in the Middle East. We’ll also hear Passover Psalm by Erich Wolfgang Korngold who overcame personal tragedy during the Holocaust.

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