Isn’t it nice sometimes when research defies common warnings? Like maybe chocolate and red wine aren’t really that bad for you, and maybe you don’t really need to stretch before you exercise. Unfortunately, this new study by Nathan Pettit at Cornell and Niro Sivanathan at London Business school isn’t one of those cases. The paper suggests what […]
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The Chemical Heritage Foundation’s podcast, Distillations, has asked me to produce a commentary for their September show. I’ll write up and narrate a piece about The Tongue Map Myth, which I shared here in January. Stay tuned!
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Other exciting opportunities, and lovely houseguests, have kept me away from this website for the past week. Since I have no radio-related work of my own to share with you, I thought I’d at least link you to two great pieces by other Brooklyn independent producers. My friend Nina Porzuki traveled the country a few
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Last October at the Third Coast International Audio Festival I was lucky enough to nab an appointment with Robert Krulwich of NPR, ABC news, and Radiolab fame. His advice to me as a new science radio freelancer in New York? Two things. One, collaborate with others. Two, seek out science cafes. Since then, pretty much every
Thanks to some advice from last post’s lecturer Holly Tucker (@history_geek) I’ve joined Twitter. Follow me @audreyqq!
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This post tempts me with the possibilities for all sorts of terrible puns, but I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. I want to tell you about two lectures I recorded recently at Observatory. One had to do with the history of blood transfusions and inter-species transfusion, and the other was about sex with
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I’ve completed my first podcast venture. This is part of my collaboration with the Brooklyn arts and lecture space, Observatory. The podcast covers February’s events at this Gowanus headquarters for all things art and science. We revisit February’s Retrofuturology exhibit, get acquainted with the Observatory members Wythe Marschall and Ethan Gould of the Hollow Earth Society,
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One influential group of people did start to take notice of Greenpoint. Riverkeeper is a nonprofit that looks after water quality on the Hudson River and its tributaries. They started patrolling Newtown Creek in 2002, and found oil leaking into the creek from a bulkhead on the Exxon Mobil property near the BQE. They
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I’ve continued to spend about a day a week researching my neighborhood for a possible radio documentary fellowship. I never figured myself for a history nut, but I’m suddenly getting all jazzed up geeking out over dates and court documents. Walking down the streets I keep thinking about how the sounds around me would fit
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Friday morning I took a trip down the New Jersey Turnpike to record an interview with Irma Aandahl. Irma hosted WAMU‘s morning talk show in the 1970’s–until her assistant Diane Rehm took over and it became the now famous Diane Rehm Show in 1979. After at least 80 years of life, I figured Irma might have