Jacques of all Trades

theatlantic:

Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?

Radio figures Ira Glass, Sylvia Poggioli, Neda Ulaby, and others have inspired restaurants, pets’ names, license plates, and songs.

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cookyourcupboard:

British cookbook author Nigella Lawson joins NPR for the first radio segment of Cook Your Cupboard. In each radio piece, we’ll get chefs and other food experts to give advice to one lucky submitter: first up is Marcy Misner, who lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She sent in a photo of apple cider vinegar, almond milk and dried red beans, which Lawson calls a “very, very eclectic mix.”

Listen to Nigella Lawson’s advice and read more at NPR.org ›

(Photo Credit: Hugo Burnand)

With a little help, your strange and surplus food could be dinner. NPR’s Morning Edition wants to help you Cook Your Cupboard.

(via npr)

nprfreshair:

Happy Year of the Dragon!

Dragon’s Breath (by Legohaulic)

shortformblog:

This, friends, is the kind of story NPR lives for.

(via shortformblog)

“Which two states haven’t been hit by hit by some sort of calamity that was so serious they needed help from the federal government? After much cross-checking on FEMA’s website, we figured out the answer: — Michigan — South Carolina.”

(via What A Year: Disasters Have Been Declared In All But Two States : The Two-Way : NPR)

New covers of classic muppet songs, now available streaming on NPR.

genoprimanti:

nprfreshair:

via nprmusic: Some Music For Your Morning

First Listen: ‘Muppets: The Green Album,’ a new collection of Muppet songs covered lovingly by OK Go, Andrew Bird, My Morning Jacket and other artists. Enjoy!

Super duper.

Quick-Blog Site Tumblr Takes Off In An Uncertain Marketplace | NPR

oldmanasante:

Guess whose first on-air piece is on the home page RIGHT NOW? Click through to listen! Audio posts online at 9am ET.

It’ll air again at 7:55am ET, but not on every NPR member station (not even WAMU, sadly). Make sure you’re listening to a station that plays the Morning Edition business segment! I randomly found it airing on KUT, Austin’s member station.

Enjoy!

I heard the piece on WAMU in a taxicab this morning around 8:55. Great work!

NPR celebrating birthday with free Pleasant Pops!

(via NPR Celebrates ‘All Things Considered’ with Free Pleasant Pops: DCist)

We were all a little frightened last month when Congress threatened to strip National Public Radio of its funding. (Thankfully, a last-minute deal averted that.) Now back from the brink, NPR is revved up to celebrate the 40th anniversary of All Things Considered, the public radio station’s flagship news program. Accordingly, they will be giving away 500 free Pleasant Pops popsicles today at 2 p.m. in front of their 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW building. With temps in the 80s today, we can think of no better way to celebrate. 

Energy is not a thing.

It is not a cell phone. It is not a PS3. It is not a new Lexus. It is not a product in the sense we denizens of consumer culture have become so comfortable embracing. Find an intro-to-physics book, look up “energy” and you will find something like “the ability to do work.”

What a strange, amorphous, slightly circular sounding definition. If you want to understand the depths of the problem facing our culture you need look no further. We treat energy like a product, like a thing. From the fundamental perspective of physics, however, it is something altogether different.

—From the npr commentary “Energy Choices Are Bearing Down On Us, With Hard-To-Swallow Costs In Tow”

nprfreshair:

Tomorrow: How Italian Food Conquered The World. We’ll talk with food writer John Mariani about mozzarella, calamari and the spread of Italian-American cuisine. Mariani is also the food correspondent for Esquire Magazine. 

Spaghetti Fireworks (by laverrue)

nprfreshair:

“A wise woman — I think it was the Millionaire Matchmaker (or maybe it was my sister) — once said that men hide their insecurities behind facial hair. Well, that’s just one theory. Other men see beards as an outlet for creativity. Every few years, such men from around the world congregate and compete at the World Beard and Mustache Contest.” — NPR’s Claire O’Neill

As one who is getting ready to part with my own beard (for the time being), I reject the insecurity theory.

NPR eVALENTINES! NPR eVALENTINES! Punnily yours.

(via juliasea)

nprfreshair:

Analyzing Billboard’s Top Hits of 2010: Four rappers name-check the President, 37 tracks have a featuring credit, and 21 songs reference drinking or getting drunk…