News
Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
- Generative artificial intelligence tools are keeping a lot of businesses and workers on their toes. First sector to be hit is the video game sector in China and now movies and animation. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak reports.
- Kai talks to Erin Lyndon, president of Poker Power, about the goal of teaching one million women to play poker as a way to close the achievement gap on Wall Street.
Marketplace Morning Report
- David Brancaccio will speak with Marketplace’s senior economics contributor Chris Farrell about whether or not concerns about an artificial intelligence speculative bubble are justified.
- Sabri Ben-Achour will speak with The Economist magazine’s Vijay Vaitheeswaran for a status update on carbon capture technology, and a check-in on the broader ecosystem of technological advancements for fighting climate change.
Marketplace Tech
Monday August 21: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Katie Paul, Tech Transparency Project, about how YouTube disabling some users’ video recommendations could decrease the algorithm pushing problematic videos.
On Point
On Point brings you a week of wonder: A curation of shows from the past year reveling in the wonder of the world we live in. Over the course of the week, we explore what captivates our mind, illuminates our humanity and both delights and confounds us.
Digital assets to promote this special series are available here.
- Monday August 21: Earth needs darkness just as much as it needs light. We learn how human light pollution is pushing back the dark and changing the natural world.
- Tuesday August 22: What if you could taste the world’s electrical fields? Hear vibrations in a leaf? See magnetic currents guiding you home? Science writer Ed Yong helps us perceive the world the way animals do – through eyes, ears, antennae and more.
- Wednesday, August 23: How do you find deep happiness? Researcher Dacher Keltner tells Meghna the answer is to seek and experience more awe.
- Thursday, August 24: Parasites are the cause of numerous debilitating diseases, so it’s easy to think of them as doing no good. But, as we hear in this episode, losing parasites could have devastating consequences for our ecosystem.
- Friday, August 25: Many of us turn to music to feel better. But music can also help us physically heal. We hear how studies show that music can affect our blood pressure and our heart rate – and even help us manage pain.
Arts and Culture
Splendid Table
August 25 – Repeat episodeWe’re spending the hour talking about summer produce and gardening. Chef Abra Berens, author of Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables, teams up with Francis to answer listener questions, and we talk to Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm about the intersection of community farming and social justice.
Performance Today
- Lysander Trio plays Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 3 at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival
- Joshua Bell, violin and Peter Dugan, piano perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 at Spivey Hall in Morrow, GA
- An all-star group performs the Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 at the Seattle Chamber Music Society
- ROCO performs at St. John the Divine, Houston, TX, conducted by Delyana Lazarova
- Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien perform the first movement of Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante
APM Presents special of the week
I Hear America Singing
Air Window: now – September 30, 2023
As in all aspects of our culture, music has been a part of work every step of the way. Today, both the advent of remote-work and the emerging question of universal basic income are creating new paradigms and discussions about the meaning of work. Join Cantus for I Hear America Singing, a joyful examination of the role work has played in our lives in years past and how work might evolve into the future.
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