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The show is streamed live at hereonearth.org. en-us (C) 2009 Wisconsin Public Radio Wisconsin Public Radio Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:00:01 GMT http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/images/hoeSmallNew.jpg http://www.hereonearth.org/ 150 150 Musical inspiration can come from a lot of places but Composer Bruce Adolphe found the inspiration for his latest piece in a particularly unusual spot: the research of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. Self Comes to Mind is the end product of this collaboration between scientist and musician and it was recently performed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Video imagery and projected texts accompanied Yo-Yo Ma's performance of the duo's cello and percussion composition. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090630k.cfm Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Having grown up female in Iran just prior to the 1979 Revolution, Nahid Rachlin knows a thing or two about social unrest, Iranian politics and what the experience of both are like for women. Author of the memoir Persian Girls and a professor at the New School University, Nahid Rachlin joins us to provide context and insight into the current Iranian controversy. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090629k.cfm Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Think you know everything there is to know about milkshakes? How about a little basil in your strawberry? Or a few shakes of chili powder to add some smoke to your chocolate shake? Adam Reid gives this old-time favorite a few new licks and a twist, turning kidstuff into a surprisingly sophisticated adult affair. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090626k.cfm Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute for Innovation has a knack for reading a crisis as an opportunity. He calls this "The Compelling Moment," citing what is going on in Tehran, Detroit, and elsewhere in these worst of times and best of times. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090625k.cfm Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 How many ways are there to say "believe me" in the world? In English, we say "I'm not pulling your leg." In Russian, the phrase is "I'm not hanging noodles from your ear." Author Jag Bhalla collects this and other amusing, often hilarious phrases that provide a unique perspective on how different cultures perceive and describe the world. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090624k.cfm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Back in 2000 James Doty was living the high life. A neurosurgeon turned biotech investor, he drove a Ferrari and was in the process of buying a private island when he lost his fortune in the dot-com bust. Now he is the director of a new research institute he founded to study compassion. Buddhist nun, Thubten Chodron, joins us as we discuss the connections between the scientific and the religious search for compassion. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090623k.cfm Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Iranians are taking the street, en masse, to contest the results of their recent election. Leaders around the world are speaking up in support of the protesters. Obama, however, seems to be laying low. Today we discuss the pros and cons of cautious diplomacy with Iran and why Twitter is popping up in stories about Iranian protesters. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090622k.cfm Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Whether you live in the city or in the suburbs, you could be growing your own food on your rooftop, on concrete, and even up the side of your walls using the commonsense techniques of permaculture design. Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture teaches people how to get started. He joins us at the Energy Fair. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090619k.cfm Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Whoever thought we would be worried about pirates in the 21st century? If you are interested in how today's pirate menace compares with the swashbuckling, cutlass brandishing pirates of old, join us with economist Peter Leeson, who uncovers the hidden economics of piracy in his book, The Invisible Hook. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090618k.cfm Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Join us for a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft. Margaret Wertheim, co-director of the Institute for Figuring, is joined by a bevy of women who are in the process of creating a stitched coral reef as a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090617k.cfm Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Can you imagine the shock of giving an outgrown sweater to Goodwill and then finding it eleven years later on the back of some poor kid in Rwanda? That is what happened to Jacqueline Novogratz who subsequently left a career in international banking to found Acumen Fund, an organization dedicated to tackling global poverty. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090616k.cfm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 We might expect to find poverty in India or in Africa, but what about the newly poor living in Ohio? Travelling through the Midwest, Mort Rosenblum, editor of Dispatches magazine, met the jobless and hopeless of formerly thriving towns where you can now buy a house for $800 and get a second thrown in for free. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090615k.cfm Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Is it really still true that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach? Giulia Melucci tested that maxim through twenty years of New York City dating before throwing in the dish towel. Now she is the author of the hilarious memoir, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, a red-sauce laden journey to recipes and self-discover. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090612k.cfm Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 They say the world is shrinking, so what can we do to feel more comfortable with our neighbors? Travel! Acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves' new book argues that we can't understand our world without experiencing it. Travel as a Political Act will teach us all what it means to travel with our place in the world in mind. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090611k.cfm Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Bead for Life is a non-profit organization dedicated to overcoming extreme poverty in Uganda through the support of an international grassroots movement rather than aid. Through the work of Bead for Life, women in Uganda make and sell paper beads to people around the world. Join us and Bead for Life's Torkin Wakefield as we explore how feminine handicraft becomes the base for eradicating extreme poverty. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090610k.cfm Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Can you imagine what our cave people ancestors were thinking as they relaxed by the side of a fire and enjoyed a beautiful sunset? If you think that we’ve only learned to appreciate beauty more recently, think again. We are celebrating Darwin's bicentennial year with author Denis Dutton and his book, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution, which explores the evolutionary role of aesthetic appreciation. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090609k.cfm Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Since his days on the campaign trail, President Obama promised a speech to the Muslim World to define US policy and change perceptions of America. Did his speech in Cairo succeed? We will analyze Obama's speech and look at the international reaction as we talk with Prof. Uli Schamiloglu, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090608k.cfm Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Have you ever seen an otter fry a fish? Maybe you haven't thought too much about how cooking is a strictly human activity, but Richard Wrangham has. In his latest book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human, Richard Wrangham, renowned primatologist, argues that humanity itself began when we started cooking our food. This food Friday we go deep into our human ancestry to discover how cooking itself may be responsible for our biological and sociological evolution into what we are today. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090605k.cfm Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S. and Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment. Join us to explore work and workers around the world. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090604k.cfm Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Iceland is the site of an aluminum smelting industry, it has been at the forefront of renewable energy development, and, most recently, it has seen what is perhaps the most spectacular fall of any nation during the global economic crisis. Andri Magnason's book Dreamland and the recent film made from it take us on a journey through Iceland's struggle to recover a sustainable identity for itself but its story has something to teach us all about what it means to honor what's valuable about a nation. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090603k.cfm Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 What can you tell about a person from the way they die? In The Book of Dead Philosophers, Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the New School in New York, explores death, our last taboo, from a most unusual perspective. He recounts the demise of famous philosophers, revealing how their variously tragic, amusing, and bizarre ends can help us lead richer lives. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090602k.cfm Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 What do you get when you cross a desire to go green and the nerve to takeover land owed by someone else? It is called Guerrilla Gardening, and while it was first practiced in 17th century Britain, it has become a movement in places like New York City, where abandoned lots are turned into lush gardens by local "Green Guerrillas." http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090601k.cfm Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 When food writer Robb Walsh discovered that the local Galveston Bay oysters were being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country, he decided to look into the matter. His new book, Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour, documents a five-year adventure that docks everywhere from oyster reefs to oyster bars and from corporate boardrooms to hotel bedrooms in a quest for the truth about the world's most profitable aphrodisiac. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090529k.cfm Fri, 29 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Samuel Charters, one of the very first musicologists to study Afro-American music, has summed up his life's work in "A Language of Song," which details his journey to Africa and to find Africa influenced music in the United States, Brazil, and the Carribean. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090528k.cfm Thu, 28 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 When New York Times journalist Warren St. John wrote about a soccer team in Georgia made up of child refugees from all over the world, Universal Studios jumped on the film-rights. Warren St. John's new book about the team, Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town, chronicles the hard work and heroic journeys of the players and sheds light on what it takes to build a community when we seem to have little in common. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090527k.cfm Wed, 27 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 The increasing need for care for our elders is often seen as a problem or pressure put on our families, communities and government. But is there a way to see it instead as an opportunity? Across the United States and the world caretakers, non-profit groups, and university programs are beginning to redevelop notions of care giving by looking across generations. The St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is one manifestation in the movement toward seeing the need for care as an opportunity for everyone involved. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090526k.cfm Tue, 26 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 How would you turn Alaska into a piece of music? A glacial tempo, filled with cold motifs and melodies or something grand and imposing? Composer John Luther Adams answers this question every time he steps into his studio. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_080825k.cfm Mon, 25 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 You have heard of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. What about good fat and bad fat? After thirty years as the most maligned food, fat is making a comeback. Dishes made with lard, bacon, marrow and butter are appearing on chefs' menus and Jennifer McLagan has written a cookbook in praise of it. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090522k.cfm Fri, 22 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Michael Muhammad Knight, an Irish Catholic who converted to Islam, is considered a heretic by many American Muslims for having written the Taqwacores, a novel about a group of Muslim punk-rockers, as fiercely independent as they are devout. The book went viral and inspired a movement. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090521k.cfm Thu, 21 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 They call it The Eternal City and you would think for that reason alone Rome would be resistant to change. But antiquity and modernity are on a collision course in some of Rome's oldest neighborhoods. Harvard anthropologist has made a study of it in his new book Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Rome. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090520k.cfm Wed, 20 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Natalie Goldberg has taught hundreds of Americans to write memoir. She says that there is something about memoir that makes it a particularly American genre. We are impatient. We want it now. We want to break open the old structures of memory and make them new and fresh again. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090519k.cfm Tue, 19 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 When the Palm Beach Post assigned Carlos Frias to travel to Cuba to cover Castro's illness, his father said, "You're going to Cuba? Take me with you." Frias spent twelve hot, heart-wrenching days in Cuba in August 2006, and his memoir allowed him to take his father along with him as he discovered his lost heritage. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090518k.cfm Mon, 18 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Gardens are not the only place where you can pick your own food. The trained eye can find all sorts of edibles in woods, marshes, and backyards. Join is with professional foragers ready to share their trade secrets on how to find the last free lunch. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090515k.cfm Fri, 15 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 You say you hate to travel? Or you love it. Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne there has been a lively debate about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins that debate in a memoir both serious and funny about being a reluctant traveler. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090514k.cfm Thu, 14 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 In his new book, How to Win A Cosmic War, Reza Aslan recommends that we strip the religious rhetoric out of the war on terror and focus instead on the war we can win: the battle for the minds and hearts of young Muslim men. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090513k.cfm Wed, 13 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Harold Varmus, the Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist who also serves as science advisor to President Obama is the author of the new book, The Art and Politics of Science. He is coming to the UW-Madison to give a lecture and a reading at Borders. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090512k.cfm Tue, 12 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 The French say he is a young writer to watch. He has won their most prestigious awards. He is Alain Mabanckou, born in the Congo, author of six novels; two of them recently translated into English. African Psycho is about a failed serial killer. Broken Glass is about a Congolese barfly. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090511k.cfm Mon, 11 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Measuring it out by the teaspoonful, how many of us happen to know that vanilla actually comes from the bean pod of an orchid? Journalist Tim Ecott follows the history of vanilla from its cultivation by the Aztecs to the burgeoning of a multi-million dollar industry. It is anything but vanilla. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090508k.cfm Fri, 8 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Do American feminists tend to revert to old world values when they become mothers? We will ask Maria Laurino, author of the memoir, Old World Daughter, New World Mother. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090507k.cfm Thu, 7 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 To our ancestors, the sense of smell was not just important, it was crucial to their survival, and according the Rachel Herz, the author of The Scent of Desire, it's the sense most closely tied to mental health and happiness. Join Jean Feraca for a fascinating down-to-earth tour of the psychology and biology of our most neglected sense, the sense of smell. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090311k.cfm Wed, 6 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Were Kamikaze pilots all hell bent on suicide? Many former Kamikazes interviewed for a new documentary reveal they were not all that keen on giving up their lives for the Emperor, and some actually went out of their way to minimize the damage they caused. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090505k.cfm Tue, 5 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 The impulse to preserve the relics of prophets and saints has been with us since Buddha lost his baby teeth and John the Baptist lost his head. Peter Manseau went on a quest to discover the world's holy dead and learned a lot about the making of religious meaning along the way. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090504k.cfm Mon, 4 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Vom Fass is German for From the Cask. When the German chain opened its first USA franchise in Madison, Wisconsin, the owners did not have any trouble selling its imported gourmet oils and vinegars straight from the cask, but when it came to scotch, that was a different story. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090501k.cfm Fri, 1 May 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Known as the Pablo Neruda of North America, Martin Espada has made his reputation as a poet of justice and an advocate for the voiceless. His latest work touches on the unrest of South America and the post colonial conflict of Puerto Rico, the land of his ancestors. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090430k.cfm Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 It may not be the first time a movie has been made based on a book about the Mafia. But Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah is unlike any that came before it. Made with people taken from the streets of Naples, Gomorrah is a cross between fiction and documentary that has sent its maker into hiding. Join us for the ultimate anti-heroic Mafia story. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090429k.cfm Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 When did debt become credit and credit become debt? Dickens scholar Tatiana Holway says that's what Little Dorritt is all about. The Masterpiece Theater production of Dickens' ended on Sunday, but the questions about debt, bad bankers and how to live with sudden reversals in fortune are surely still with us. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090428k.cfm Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 With two thirds of Americans supporting investigations into the Bush administration's use of torture, and 40 percent supporting criminal prosecutions, pressure on President Obama is mounting. The Center for Constitutional Rights is calling for the Attorney General to Appoint a Special Prosecutor. We'll talk with CCR director Michael Ratner. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090427k.cfm Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:00:01 GMT 00:52:35 Learn what the Here on Earth show brings you from the world. http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/podcast.cfm Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:00:01 GMT Here on Earth 00:00:30 false