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Tag: NPR
The Milk Carton Kids: the NPR Tiny Desk Concert [Video]
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale are the Milk Carton Kids. I’ve been hooked since I heard the first song.
Renaud Garcia Fons on the double bass [Video]
Sixteen minutes of bliss for a few lucky NPR staffers, provided by double bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons. From NPR Tiny Desk concerts.
Do darker yolks have higher nutritional value? [Article]
Apparently not – the color of the yolk has nothing to do with nutritional value. The brighter egg yolk color is almost entirely influenced by the birds diet, says a poultry specialist. Links in the article from the NPR.
Surviving Mass Extinction: An Interview with Annelee Newitz
Before you scoff at the audacity, listen (or read the transcript) to this interview that Ira Flatow of NPR had with Author Annalee Newitz, about her new book “Scatter, Adapt, & Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction“
The man who lied to his laptop [Audio Interview]
Clifford Nass, a psychology professor at Stanford University talks to Ira Flatow. Begins thus:
..we’ll be focusing on you and your true love – your smartphone. Think about it. Are you lost without it? Inconsolable if the two of you are separated? Willing to walk into a lamppost rather than look up while texting? Is it the object of your desire? Isn’t it?
..our technology-addicted lifestyle and our nonstop multitasking may be affecting our ability to concentrate, manage our emotions, even think creatively.
Our ideas of dinosaurs, well for most of us anyways [Article] [Article]
… is based on the work of an exceptionally talented cinematographer by the name of Steven Spielberg. Robert Krulwich of NPR discovers a whole different world of dinosaurs which are documented throughout history and who have been given visual form by a Natural History Illustrator and Paleo-artist by name Julius T. Csotonyi, PhD, of Edmonton, Canada.