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An Unusual Drag King

Robin Maxfield is a real estate agent and the mother of two, but she discovered her true calling dressing like Barry Manilow and lip-syncing on stage.

Broadcast on 7/29/10


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EXTRA! Check out Robin's performance of David Cassidy's "I Think I Love You." Use your disgression, it's not for kids! (property of Robin Maxfield).

SoniCambridge!

Unusually public radio from the Cambridge Science Festival!

If you could understand one thing about how the world works, what would it be? We asked budding school-age scientists what they want to know -- and then we took those questions to some of the brightest scientists in Cambridge.

Have a listen!

       Cambridge Science Festival Feature broadcast

      

SoniCambridge is produced by three Boston-based radio producers. 

Pien Huang is a producer for NPR/WBUR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook. She's curious about a lot of things, including why birds have tongues, why the universe expands, and how things get carbonated.

After earning his Ph.D. in oceanography a couple years ago, Ari Daniel Shapiro turned to radio and multimedia to tell stories about all types of science. He knew the audio software from his graduate work on the vocal communication of whales. Once he started recording people (instead of marine mammals), he actually understood what his subjects were saying. These days, Shapiro produces pieces about science for public radio programs and for academic, research and nonprofit organizations.

Emily Corwin produces and hosts The Neighborhood, a radio program at MIT's WMBR. She also works at the Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org), and moonlights as a private cello teacher. Emily spent a good part of her pre-school years incessantly asking "mom? Why are trees called trees?"

Barefoot Running and the Boston Marathon

The publication of convincing scientific research has elevated barefoot running from the athletic fringe to a full-on fitness revolution. In these 6 minutes you'll meet barefoot runner James Webber as he runs the 2010 Boston Marathon; you'll get the science of barefoot running from celebrity evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman; and hear the perspectives of a podiatrist, a sneaker salesman, and more.  This segment has been rebroadcast on KUT, KUOW, WILL, and Remix Radio on Satellite Radio XM 136.   

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Bonus Audio! Emily's interview with Daniel Lieberman.
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More information about barefoot running in Boston is available through the Metro Boston Barefoot Running Meetup.

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Produced with the help of Rob Rosenthal of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies through the AIR Mentorship Program.  

Radio Outside the Box

A Schmorgesborg of unconventiality is awaiting your ears.

image by flickr_Sindy

Broadcast on 2/25/10
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God is Talking to Me - from Hans Anderson.
Cynthia - From Katie Mingle.
Goodbye Bell Amusement Park - From Michael Paul Mason.
My Life as a Cup - From Sean Hurley.
Don't Drive Like My Brother - From Jonathan Menjivar.
Thanks for Sharing Your Girlfriend - From Salt Institute for Documentary Studies' Sarah Buckingham.

"I Flash for a Living"

Burlesque performer known as Oliver Tryst, a member of the burlesque performance troupe Babes in Boinkland, joined Emily live on July 29th, 2010. Hear how a medical condition drove Oliver to ballet as a child, and what it's like to live as a Flash developer by day and a cross-dressing burlesque dancer by night. Also hear about Abbey Road, the Babes in Boinkland performance -- set to the entire Beatles' album -- at at Club Oberon on July 30th and August 4th. Oliver also stars in The Slutcracker, which you can hear all about on the December 8th 2009 episode of The Neighborhood.

Please excuse the compromised sound quality in the opening 5 minutes.

Broadcast on 7/29/10.


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History, Evolution and Financial Fiascos

Sig, Kay and Yvonne
at Providence HouseThis week I took a trip to Harvard Business School's Baker Library to see an exhibit on the history of Financial Crises. Then, I spoke with an economist who explained that every time I make a decision about money, I'm thinking like like a hunter-gatherer would about food. Finally, I went to Providence House in Brighton Massachusetts, to talk with some folks who could tell me first hand what it was like to live through the Great Depression.

Segment A: Baker Library exhibit and evolutionary economics.
Broadcast on 2/11/10
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Segment B: Fewer than 1 in every 50 Americans is old enough to remember the Great Depression. In this short audio collage, three residents of Providence House, an assisted living home in Brighton, MA, remember that difficult decade.
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Also airing on The Neighborhood on 2/11/10:

• "Chronology of Capitalism" from Making Contact and National Radio Project
• Consumer Confidence Explainer from Rachel Ward and NPR's Economics Training Project
• Geekhouse Bicycles from Cathy Corman