Spectrum
284 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsSpectrum features conversations with an eclectic group of fascinating people, some are famous and some are not, but they all have captivating stories.
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EPA Regulation Rollbacks are ‘Really Alarming’ says Health Science Expert
September 19, 2018 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBSome 70 environmental regulations have been rolled back by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since the beginning of the Trump Administration. And, Dr. Michele Morrone, professor of Environmental Health Science at Ohio University finds this to be “really alarming.” She claims that these rollbacks are exposing citizens, especially in Appalachia and other poverty stricken areas to increased environmental health risks – including danger to the purity of drinking water. Anxiety a...
Democratic Party has Lost Its Soul Says Author/Activist Thomas Reston
September 12, 2018 11:47 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBLong-time Democratic activist and author Thomas B. Reston says the Democratic Party has lost its way and lost its soul over the past generation or more. In his book, “Soul of a Democrat: Seven Core Ideals that Made our Party and Our Country – Great,” Reston claims that the party has lost its focus and it has jettisoned old philosophies that historically sparked the electorate. He cites the Presidential Election of 2016 as an example. He gives reasons for the party’s lackluster recent perf...
Trump Treats Diplomacy and “Intelligence” Like Reality TV: Says Security Expert
September 05, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBDavid Crane has dedicated his professional life to intelligence and security issues both nationally and internationally. He has a long history of service and has risked his life for his country. But, at this point, he is extremely concerned about how President Trump in handling intelligence and security issues. Crane says that Trump ignores or refuses to hear security briefings and he goes into major foreign policy events (like the meetings with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un) grossly unpre...
Trump’s Assaults against News Media are Heightening Security Concerns
August 29, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThe incessant drumbeat of news media criticism by President Donald J. Trump is causing some major concerns among the press and First Amendment advocates, according to veteran, award-winning journalist Andrew Alexander. Alexander is a former Washington Post ombudsman, a former Washington Bureau chief for Cox Newspapers and an award winning veteran journalist with more than four decades of experience. He says that the characterization of news media as “enemies of the people” has both domes...
Trump’s Assaults against News Media are Heightening Security Concerns
August 29, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThe incessant drumbeat of news media criticism by President Donald J. Trump is causing some major concerns among the press and First Amendment advocates, according to veteran, award-winning journalist Andrew Alexander. Alexander is a former Washington Post ombudsman, a former Washington Bureau chief for Cox Newspapers and an award winning veteran journalist with more than four decades of experience. He says that the characterization of news media as “enemies of the people” has both domes...
Bloomberg’s White House Correspondent Says Fact-Checking is Important
August 22, 2018 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBWhile White House reporters often are given releases and official statements by the President or his staff, it is more important than ever to vet the facts and go through a rather thorough fact checking process before publishing the material, says Toluse Olorunnipa, one of Bloomberg News’ six White House correspondents. In the competitive White House journalism environment, Olorunnipa says it is important to be first with a story and beat other news organizations but it is more important to...
Nanotechnology Is Changing the Ways We May Treat Certain Diseases
August 15, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBBy the year 2020, it is estimated that we will have over 6 million workers in nanotechnology industries, says Dr. Amir Farnoud, an Assistant Professor of Chemical, Biomolecular and Biomedical Engineering at the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University. The development of nanoscience is exploding at such a rate, it is difficult to predict with any accuracy how much and how fast the field will grow in an extremely short period of time, Dr. Farnoud adds. Nanotechnology ...
Small Business Administration Reaches Out to Expand Its Reach
August 08, 2018 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBRobert Scott is the Regional Administrator of the Great Lakes Region of the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) and he is on a mission. Scott recently toured some of the areas of his region facing some of the greatest economic stagnation to spread the word about some of the benefits of the Small Business Administration. He is responsible for the rustbelt in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. He oversees the delivery of the agency’s financial assistance, te...
Trump’s Presidency: More Complicated than Any Other, Says Reporter
August 01, 2018 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBCovering this White House and this President is a 24 hour job, says Gregory Korte, award-winning Washington correspondent for USA Today. He says that this President is more complicated in many ways from any other President in history. In part, Korte claims, because most traditional ways of handling issues and procedures are turned on their head. This President often eschews the analytical approach to problem solving but instead governs “from his gut.” He often bypasses staff to make decisi...
Putin Gets What He Wants Out of Pres. Trump At Helsinki & Beyond
July 25, 2018 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBRussia is trying to elevate its power in Europe and on the world stage and Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin is manipulating the United States and other countries in the process, according to professor, author and expert on Russia Dr. Steven Miner. To gain prestige and power, Putin is wanting to split the NATO alliance as well as disrupt and denigrate European and American politics and democracies, says Dr. Miner. Disruption plays into Putin’s plans. President Donald Trump gave the appearance...
NASA is Reaching Out to Promote and Increase Contracts with Small Businesses
July 18, 2018 07:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBLast year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spent nearly $5.5 billion dollars on contracts related to small businesses. Some $2.7 billion or 16.5 percent of total procurements involved direct contracts between small businesses and NASA. Another $2.8 of contracts were subcontracts with small businesses -- contracts between small business and large prime contractors servicing NASA. Even though those numbers are impressive, NASA wants to expand its small business cont...
Current “Hyper-Racial” Culture is Covered Full-time by AP Reporter Errin Whack
July 11, 2018 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBIn November 2017, Errin Whack was appointed to be the Race and Ethnicity Writer for the Associated Press. She works closely with the Race and Ethnicity team dedicated to covering “race, culture and politics” in a changing and volatile America. The Associated Press says it has developed a team that can focus on the complicated issues of race and provide rapid responses to racial issues developing across the country. “America is currently hyper-racial,” Whack says. She thinks, therefore,...
Get a View from Behind-the-Camera in Cable & Network News: Role of Producer
July 04, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBA producer works behind-the-scenes and in the control room helping to write and direct the way the news is presented by the talent. It is an important and vital role to the delivery of broadcast news but it’s a role that is little understood. A producer helps gathers the news, write it and sits in the control room advising the talent during the news delivery. A producer and the news anchor must have a symbiotic relationship. It is like an intense plutonic professional relationship, accor...
Inside the Mind of the Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist Jack Ohman
June 27, 2018 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBEditorial cartoonists, in the heyday of newspapers, were plentiful. Now the group is down to only 50 nationwide and that number is being threatened by slow extinction. One of the survivors, however, is prize winning cartoonist, columnist, editor and author Jack Ohman of the “Sacramento Bee. “ Currently, his cartoons are syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group. Previously, his work appeared in 200 newspapers through Tribune Content Agency, and he was, at age 19, the youngest editori...
Medical School Curriculum is Revolutionized to Keep Pace with Today’s Living
June 20, 2018 07:00 - 42.4 MBSince 2014, the faculty and staff of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine have been developing a new medical school curriculum called the “Pathways to Health and Wellness Curriculum.” Its design is revolutionary and may lead the way for other medical schools to follow. Come August, gone will be the big auditorium lectures. Instead, greater emphasis will be placed on individual and independent studies through the use of a “flipped classroom approach.” “Students will ...
Medical School Curriculum is Revolutionized to Keep Pace with Today’s Living
June 20, 2018 07:00 - 42.4 MBSince 2014, the faculty and staff of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine have been developing a new medical school curriculum called the “Pathways to Health and Wellness Curriculum.” Its design is revolutionary and may lead the way for other medical schools to follow. Come August, gone will be the big auditorium lectures. Instead, greater emphasis will be placed on individual and independent studies through the use of a “flipped classroom approach.” “Students will ...
Was N. Korean Summit All Glitz and No Substance? -- TIME Reporter Analyzes
June 13, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThe meeting in Singapore between President Donald Trump and N. Korean leader Kim Jong Un was most assuredly historic. It was the first time that a N. Korean leader had met face-to-face with a sitting U.S. President. But, was the meeting substantive and did it produce any lasting results? That is the question politicians, journalists, and analysts are asking as President Trump wings his way back to Washington. The first reviews are tepid, according to TIME Washington correspondent Philip E...
Mexico & USA are Coming Together Not Apart says ‘Vanishing Frontiers’ Author
June 06, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBAs we feel racial tension from the White House and hear immigration horror stories from President Donald Trump’s Administration, it is refreshing to have a true scholar publish a book that is well researched and has an optimistic slant on the same issues. That is what Dr. Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute and former executive vice-president of the Wilson Center has done in his new book: “Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together.” ...
Mexico & USA are Coming Together Not Apart says ‘Vanishing Frontiers’ Author
June 06, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBAs we feel racial tension from the White House and hear immigration horror stories from President Donald Trump’s Administration, it is refreshing to have a true scholar publish a book that is well researched and has an optimistic slant on the same issues. That is what Dr. Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute and former executive vice-president of the Wilson Center has done in his new book: “Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together.” ...
American Politics Through a Camera Lens: Viewpoint of Former NYT Photographer
May 30, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBFor 25 years, Stephen Crowley was one of two “New York Times” (NYT) photographers stationed in Washington to cover the White House, the President, and Congress. Being a politically-minded guy since childhood, Crowley says that covering politics was never boring and in fact, it often was exciting. He says that covering politics is a lot like shooting athletic events…there are always surprises, successes and failures. There are stars and also-rans. Each personality is different and it reflec...
Cesarean Sections Account for One-Third of the Baby Deliveries in the USA
May 23, 2018 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBMedical historian Jacqueline H. Wolf, a professor at Ohio University, has just authored a new book tracing the history of the use of Cesarean Section baby deliveries in the United States noting a definite upward trend in the 21st Century. The book, “Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence,” explores the history of the C-Section from the 19th century until today. Wolf tells Spectrum podcast that Cesarean births rose in the United States by 455 percent from...
The Tangled Trump-Russia Web Ensnares as Attorney Cohen’s Story Unfolds
May 16, 2018 13:02 - 54 minutes - 50 MBAs if the tangled and muddled web of potential Russian collusion and conspiracy with Americans to interfere in the 2016 Presidential Election was not confusing enough, we now have the activities of President Trump’s former attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen to further complicate matters. Philip Ewing, security editor for National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, has been following the Cohen situation as it unfolds. He notes there are three main elements. First, what documents should be tu...
Investigative Reporting Hits the Grassroots through Non-profit Journalism
May 09, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBInvestigative journalism is not the sole province of only big-city newspapers like the “New York Times” or the “Washington Post.” Instead, it is starting to flourish at the grassroots level through the assistance of the Institute for Non-Profit News (INN), a collective of over 100 non-profit news organizations across the country. The groups are committed to transparency in government and to hold public officials accountable. Affiliates across the country pay INN “a small fee each month in...
Award-winning Journalist Studies Today’s Climate Change by Looking at the Past
May 02, 2018 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBAndrew Revkin has spent his professional career covering environmental issues and writing about them contemporaneously. However, his most recent book, just published in May 2018, tracks climate change by looking at 100 historical events that help explain today’s climate debate. The book is “Weather: An Illustrated History: From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change” published by Sterling and it is co-authored by Revkin’s wife, Lisa Mechaley. He goes back to pre-history and brings the important ...
Big City London Reporter/Editor Visits & Studies American Small Town & Cities
April 25, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBJournalist Leo Mirani has spent his life in big cities. He worked for the Guardian in Mumbai, India – a city with a metropolitan population of over 22 million people. And, he now lives in London with a population of about 9.8 million people. His whole life has been spent in large cities and metropolitan areas. He, however, has been curious about what small towns might be like and small cities in the United States. So, he came to America on a paid sabbatical to spend 70 days traveling the h...
Internet Pioneer is both Optimistic & Cautious about New Cyber Developments
April 18, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.3 MBDr. Steve Crocker was there for the birth of the Internet. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was part of the group that developed the protocols for the ARPANET. That was the foundation for today's Internet. It was originally designed to share data and scientific research; however, it quickly morphed into a system used by millions of people for both productive and nefarious reasons. He helped formulate the Network Working Group, the forerunner of the modern Internet Engineering Task Fo...
What Does It Mean to be a “Progressive” in Today’s Political Landscape
April 11, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBThe term “liberal” seems to be fading from the political lexicon. Instead, daily, we, as voters, are bombarded with the term “progressive.” We constantly hear of progressive versus mainstream candidates. It was really apparent in the 2016 primary with Sen. Bernie Sanders challenging Hillary Clinton. But “progressivism” also has seemed to invade state elections and grassroots politics. For example, in Ohio’s Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, political rebel Dennis Kucinich is calling hims...
Artificial Intelligence: Is it Biased in Law Enforcement & Court Usage?
April 04, 2018 07:00 - 32 minutes - 29.2 MBArtificial Intelligence quickly is becoming a greater part of our lives. Algorithms already trace our digital footprints and routinely send us targeted advertising and social media content compatible with our views. AI checks our credit scores and approves/disapproves us for loans and mortgages. It also is being used to predict behaviors – especially by law enforcement and criminal justice systems. But, is it biased and does it racially profile? Randy Rieland, is an award-winning journali...
With Seriousness and Satire, Top Scholar Examines Climate Change in Trump Era
March 28, 2018 07:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThe serious side of Dr. Michael E. Mann approaches his battle with the climate change deniers in the Trump Administration with scholarly excellence. But, the author side of Dr. Mann approaches the same topic with science, satire and cartoons. Dr. Mann is one of the world’s foremost authorities on climate change and its impacts. He is an award-winning scholar. He is a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geoscie...
From Travails to Triumph: A Woman NYC Chef Who Persisted Through Adversity
March 21, 2018 07:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBIn the early 1970s, Madeline Carvalho Lanciani traveled from suburban Dayton, Ohio to New York City as a young woman with dreams of being an opera singer. After many twists and turns in life, she now owns the famous Duane Park Patisserie in the fashionable Tribeca District. She is famous for her baking, her creativity and for her tenacity. March is National Women’s History Month and the theme this year is NEVERTHELESS SHE PERSISTED: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Aga...
Is “Fake News” an Accurate Description of Today’s Media Landscape?
March 14, 2018 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB“Fake News” is a term that does not have one definite meaning. Its definition is fluid depending on who is using it to describe news coverage, says an assembled team of experts. Spectrum brought together a veteran journalist, a scholar in the fields of communication and education, and a media executive with 30 years of experience in public broadcasting to dissect the topic of “Fake News” and what it means. Allison Hunter is currently the Editor-In-Chief of WOUB News. Over her career she h...
Is “Fake News” an Accurate Description of Today’s Media Landscape?
March 14, 2018 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB“Fake News” is a term that does not have one definite meaning. Its definition is fluid depending on who is using it to describe news coverage, says an assembled team of experts. Spectrum brought together a veteran journalist, a scholar in the fields of communication and education, and a media executive with 30 years of experience in public broadcasting to dissect the topic of “Fake News” and what it means. Allison Hunter is currently the Editor-In-Chief of WOUB News. Over her career she h...
Syria is Beleaguered by Internal Wars and External Interventions, says Expert
March 07, 2018 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThis month the civil war in Syria will enter its eighth year of fighting. More than 400,000 have been killed, nearly 1 million injured and over one-third of the nation’s infrastructure has been destroyed, says Dr. Bassam Haddad, an expert on Syria. Millions have been displaced from their homes and other countries have felt the glut of millions of Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting. What started as an internal civil war in 2011 against the dictatorship of President Bashar a-Assad has beco...
Syria is Beleaguered by Internal Wars and External Interventions, says Expert
March 07, 2018 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThis month the civil war in Syria will enter its eighth year of fighting. More than 400,000 have been killed, nearly 1 million injured and over one-third of the nation’s infrastructure has been destroyed, says Dr. Bassam Haddad, an expert on Syria. Millions have been displaced from their homes and other countries have felt the glut of millions of Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting. What started as an internal civil war in 2011 against the dictatorship of President Bashar a-Assad has beco...
“Black Girls Matter”- Study Shows Black Middle School Girls Get Disciplined More Often than White Students
February 28, 2018 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBStudents of color, students who don’t know English well and LGBTQ students are “vastly over-represented among students who face school disciplinary actions,” says Dr. Lisa Harrison and Dr. Theda Gibbs-Grey of the Patton College of Education at Ohio University. This has led Dr. Harrison and Dr. Gibbs-Grey to launch a research study called “Black Girls Matter: Exploring the School Experiences of Middle School Black Girls Who Have Experienced School Suspensions.” Discipline rates of Black gir...
Recent Indictments Show Russia Sows Discord in America, Russia Expert Says
February 21, 2018 08:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBRussia intended to support candidates against Hillary Clinton- the object of Vladimir Putin’s hatred, says expert on Russia, Dr. Steven Miner, scholar, author and professor in the Contemporary History Institute of Ohio University. Russia also intended to disrupt American politics and social systems leading up to and after the 2016 Presidential Election, says Miner after perusing the 35 pages of indictments filed February 16 by United States Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The Russians inten...
Hometown Journalists Add to Poverty Problems of Their Areas, Scholar Says
February 14, 2018 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBOften Appalachian natives decry the “drive by journalists” from big cities that come to small Appalachia towns just to capture pictures and depictions of poverty, unemployment, drug addiction and squalid and trashy living conditions. They come, stay for a day or two, take pictures of the most decrepit conditions and human devastation, conduct a few interviews and then leave painting the whole region with the same brush of destitution. The same criticisms have been levied by some against th...
We Look Behind the Washington Headlines with NPR Security Editor
February 07, 2018 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBThe news in Washington D.C. regarding the investigation of the Trump campaign for possible conspiracy with Russians in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice on the part of the President is roiling. According to Philip Ewing, National Security Editor for National Public Radio (NPR), the news comes at such a rapid pace that all journalists are scrambling to keep up with the latest developments and skirmishes. Ewing, in this edition of “Spectrum,” attempts to bring us up-to-d...
Booming Gaming Industry is Expanding to Include Healthcare, Education & Finance
January 31, 2018 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBThe days of video or computer games being just for the entertainment of a small segment of our population are over. The gaming industry is exploding and developing beyond the confines of simple games into applications for healthcare, rehabilitation, education and even finance. The business of gaming is worth over a $100 billion globally per year. Games bring in more money that music and movies combined, says Chris Volpe, entrepreneur and CEO of Multivarious Games headquartered in Columbus...
Media Coverage of Fed. Shutdown Misses Impact on Average Person
January 24, 2018 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBSome observers characterize politics as a game…a sport where there are game plans, strategies, and winners and losers on almost a daily basis. And, often the news media cover politics as if it were a sporting competition with play-by-play descriptions and color analysis. Such was the case during the most recent three-day federal shutdown over the spending resolution– a battle between Democrats and Republicans and a battle between the White House and the Senate. Terminology mimicked spor...
20 Ways to Fight Tyranny In the USA in Book by Historian & Holocaust Expert
January 17, 2018 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32 MBDo you ever feel overwhelmed by news daily pouring out of Washington D.C. and the White House that you find confusing, depressing or just plain outrageous? Do you think that our democracy is in jeopardy by threats being made by the President and other governmental officials against free speech and civil liberties? Do you begin or end your day full of anger or rage at what our government has become? Do you feel frustrated thinking, as an individual, that you can do nothing to counteract th...
Trump Consumed with Rage Over “Fire and Fury” Book Says West Wing Journo
January 10, 2018 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBPresident Donald Trump is obsessed with and enraged by Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” book that describes Trump and the West Wing in most unflattering terms, according to Philip Elliott, a Washington correspondent for TIME. The President can’t let it go. It has consumed more than a week of Trump’s time and the ire doesn’t seem to be abating, according to Elliott. The book also has uncovered a significant split between Trump and his once top political strategist Steve Bannon. Bannon was t...
NPR’s Robert Siegel Bids Farewell to NPR After 40 Years of Audio Storytelling
January 09, 2018 19:46 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBRobert Siegel came to Washington D.C. from New York City’s FM Radio scene some 41 years ago. He thought his transition to Washington was temporary and soon he would be back in the New York scene. Then, he discovered a fledgling National Public Radio. He joined a group of pioneering young reporters, journalists and broadcasters who thought audio storytelling was important and limitless in its possibilities. In short, he never returned to his New York roots. Instead, he flourished professi...
Dick and Jane Readers in the 1960’s Were Written by Reading Pioneer
January 02, 2018 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBRemember being taught to read through Dick, Jane, and Spot the dog along with Puff the cat, Tim the teddy bear and Sally the baby sister. The Dick and Jane reading series began in the 1930’s and the books were published up until the 1970’s. In the 1960’s the books went through a renaissance to match the changing times. The art work was modernized. An African-American family was added to the storyline and the books became less sight based and more phonics based in teaching reading. Lead...
Civil Discourse Is Not Dead in Politics Says Former Legislator
December 27, 2017 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBSome of you love politics… But, don’t you get really tired of all the partisan wrangling, name-calling and finger pointing by our politicians? The two parties usually can’t agree on the day of the week and the nastiness of their verbal exchanges is at an all-time high. One result of this political vitriol is that little gets done in Congress and in many state legislatures and our trust in public figures is plummeting. However, one retired politician is trying to erase the nastiness and ...
Trump Recognizing Jerusalem as Capital of Israel Sparks Strong Global Reactions
December 20, 2017 08:00 - 39.5 MBRecently, President Donald Trump announced that he was recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The act received widespread bi-partisan Congressional support and kudos from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, the announcement was met by Palestinian condemnation and by protests from some U.S. European allies such as France and other leaders in the Middle East. Protest demonstrations have raged throughout the region accounting for widespread injuries and some violent c...
Your Internet Use Could be Limited by Upcoming FCC Action on Net Neutrality
December 13, 2017 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBOn December 14, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote to rescind a 2015 regulation that would end “net neutrality”. Opponents of this action say it will consolidate too much power over the Internet into the hands of a few large broadband providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon and cable companies. If passed, the high speed Internet providers would be allowed to block certain websites (at their discretion) and “throttle” (slow delivery) content for others. Th...
“Good All Over” – a New PBS Docuseries Bringing You Stories of Helping Others
December 06, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB“Philanthropologist” is a word created by two filmmakers Craig Martin and Earl Bridges. It is a combination of “philanthropist” and “anthropologist.” It also describes what these two filmmakers do. They share stories from around the globe of those sacrificing to serve others. Martin and Bridges are philanthropologists with cameras and microphones. They travel the world documenting stories of humans making a difference…solving problems and seeking solutions for the betterment of humankind...
“Good All Over” – a New PBS Docuseries Bringing You Stories of Helping Others
December 06, 2017 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB“Philanthropologist” is a word created by two filmmakers Craig Martin and Earl Bridges. It is a combination of “philanthropist” and “anthropologist.” It also describes what these two filmmakers do. They share stories from around the globe of those sacrificing to serve others. Martin and Bridges are philanthropologists with cameras and microphones. They travel the world documenting stories of humans making a difference…solving problems and seeking solutions for the betterment of humankind...
NPR National Security Editor Assesses Trump’s Recent Trip & Other Policy Matters
November 29, 2017 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBThe pomp, pageantry, and elaborate ceremonies honoring President Donald Trump on his recent Far East trip met the White House expectations for presidential optics and the perception of exalting the U.S. President. However, many observers wonder if President Trump actually made much headway in negotiating new trade agreements or getting additional help in solving the N. Korean nuclear issue, according to Phillip Ewing, national security editor for National Public Radio. Additionally, the m...