NPR (Free subscription) | 53 minutes ago
Deployments are usually hard on families. Spouses must become single parents for months on end, managing households with little outside help. These challenges become even more daunting for families with special needs children.
(Cool) Shite on the Tube (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
Art Film Talk (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Here are seven RSS feeds that I suggest would be interest to New England documentary filmmakers. This suggestion comes out of the discussion during today’s Social Media Boot Camp for Film Professionals with Sean Fitzroy. There are many good feeds out there, this list is by no means a “top seven” or anything like that, [...]
(Cool) Shite on the Tube (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Biggest Loser, Christopher Lee, Dance Your Ass Off, Monty Python, Gordon Ramsay, Jerry Seinfeld, Miley Cyrus, Dennis Hopper, JRR Tolkien, Michael Palin and more....
CURRY.COM (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Finally was able to restore my old 1st gen iPod Touch and am rediscovering Apple’s mobile platform. Definitely worth a follow up post…
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
As health care legislation moves through Congress, bioethicist Thomas H. Murray asks if enough attention is being paid to concepts such as justice, fairness and liberty. Murray and health care economist Len Nichols discuss the role of values in the health care debate.
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Football players take a lot of hits, but when does hard-headed play go too far? New research suggests that head trauma can do lasting damage. Two brain researchers talk about what happens in the brain when a player gets hit, and how athletes can better protect themselves.
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
At the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, undergraduates from all over the world unveiled the living machines they'd created with snippets of DNA, from bacteria that change color when they detect pollutants to ones that secrete non-toxic superglue.
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Faced with declining fish stocks, many nations are looking for sustainable ways to have their fish — and eat it too. But how much fishing is too much? Oceanographer Sylvia Earle discusses this and other topics in her book The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One .
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $10 million to the first individual or company to develop an energy-efficient LED replacement for the standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. DOE lighting program manager James Brodrick discusses the L Prize, and what makes a better bulb.
NPR (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
In his new book, Al Gore argues that consumers have "all the tools we need" to solve climate change. But unless the United States takes a leadership role, "it would be impossible to resolve this crisis," he tells NPR.
CURRY.COM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verizon iPhone release coming in 2010. Fortune mag has a bunch of odd articles about Microsoft. I comment on them. Mein Kampf approved by App store. SSD’s now bricking up. Blamed on firmware. The Sun is in trouble with the EU now. Intuit-online killed. Flash once again under attack. Cell phone inventor does not [...]
(Cool) Shite on the Tube (Free subscription) | yesterday
The small group of patrons at a revival theater's midnight showing of a notorious director's film are menaced by the on-screen killer, who just might be more real than they could've ever imagined.
Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently the Large Hadron Collider is doomed. It can't even survive a bread bombing by birds. The Droid arrived on the scene though, and people actually lined up. However tethering is gonna cost you on the thing. Are you still in love? And Gwen Stefani doesn't like you making her sing Honky Tonk Women. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video)...
Cubscast - Chicago Cubs Podcast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Episode: 568 - Type A Free Agents on the Cubs and what that Means, Joe Girardi v. Lou Piniella, and the Chances of Ronnie Woo Woo Getting a Sit-Down with the Cubs New Owners (November 6) - Cubscast 2009 Season Podcasts - Cubscast.com - Hosted By: Lou, Sheps & Sneetch
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