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News
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
Week of August 29
- Kai talks to Katherine Blunt about her book California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What it Means for America’s Power Grid.
Marketplace Tech
- Except for Thursday, Kimberly Adams hosts all week.
- Aug 29: A conversation about “dark patterns,” a term coined by Harry Brignull, a U.K.-based user experience specialist and researcher of human-computer interactions. Popular websites and apps, from retailers and travel services to social media companies, make use of so-called “dark patterns,” or gently coercive design tactics that critics say are used to manipulate peoples’ digital behaviors.
- Aug 30: A conversation with Kyle Alspach, Protocol reporter, whose recent enterprise article dove deep into how scammers are now apparently using deepfake voices of people’s managers or bosses to scam them into sending money.
- Aug 31: A story by Marketplace’s Stephen Beard, about new technology that allows paper to be “de-printed”—made blank again, and thus reused. It could be one solution to help with deforestation.
On Point
It is summer rebroadcast week for On Point!
- Aug 29: Whales migrate along routes thousands of miles long — oceanic superhighways — that also happen to be corridors of human disruption. In this rebroadcast, we talk with ocean scientists about what people can do to protect whale super highways. (Original Air Date: 3/25/22)
- Aug 30: Steven Salaita was a rising star in the field of American Indian studies. In 2012 he applied for a job at the University of Illinois and accepted an offer the following year. Then, he lost everything after posting on social media to condemn Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In this rebroadcast, we hear from Salaita and from Keith Whittington, author of Speak Freely, about academic freedom on America’s campuses. (Original Air Date: 9/28/21)
- Aug 31: We live in a world seemingly filled with division and outrage. But can we also learn to share in each other’s joy? In this rebroadcast we explore the science of empathetic joy and how and why we can experience more of it. (Original Air Date: 6/7/22)
- Sep 1: For decades scholar Randall Kennedy has been writing about race, culture and the law. “We are certainly much further from the racial promised land than I had thought that we were,” Kennedy says, “The forces of racism are deeper, stronger and more influential than one would like.” In this rebroadcast, we speak with Randall Kennedy about race, culture, and the law across generations. (Original Air Date: 10/8/21)
- Sep 2: Tethered to technology and distracted by our devices, the average American spends 90 percent of their time indoors. The same distractions have become an everyday part of children’s lives. But outside, how can we help kids see the forest beyond the screens? In this rebroadcast we talk with Steven Rinella, author of Outdoor Kids in an Inside World. (Original Air Date: 6/13/22)
Arts and Culture
The Splendid Table
Repeat episode – Sep 2
- This week we spend the hour with Martin Yan, a man whose impact on Chinese cooking in America is immeasurable. At the age of 33 in 1978 he became one of the first people of Asian descent to host a cooking show in the United States. Yan Can Cook was seen on public television alongside the likes of Julia Child and Jacque Pepin. He is the author of over 20 books, a successful restaurateur and is currently the host of Martin Yan: Quick & Easy.
- Please note, Francis and friends will be taking your culinary questions this fall! Record your question or comment on your phone using your voice memo app and send it to us at contact@splendidtable.org or leave us a voice message at 800-537-5252.
Timely Selections
Shareable video of the week
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People Fixing The World: The flat-pack water heater that fights climate change
- Description: Many people around the world don’t have easy access to hot water. But an engineer in Scotland has designed a simple portable device that heats water using just the power of the Sun. He believes it could reduce emissions and improve the quality of life for millions of people. A film for People Fixing the World by Richard Kenny.
- Suggested social copy: An engineer in Scotland has designed a simple portable device that heats water using just the power of the sun.
- Duration: 3 minutes 4 seconds
Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.
APM Presents special of the week
The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Broadcast Window: Sep 1 – Nov 30, 2022
Length: one hour
Who moved the giant monolithic statues of Rapa Nui, a remote island in the South Pacific? And how did they do it? These questions have been at the center of much speculation and debate since Europeans first arrived there 300 years ago on Easter Sunday, 1722, and called it “Easter Island.
The most popular theory was that this remote civilization destroyed itself – cutting down all the trees to make contraptions for moving statues. But according to the indigenous people of Rapa Nui, their ancestors didn’t need to cut down any trees to transport the statues. In fact, their oral history has always been clear about how they were transported.
In this award-winning, sound-rich documentary, listeners will be transported to the shores of Rapa Nui, where they will hear the voices of both white and native indigenous archeologists who have studied the famous moai. Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.