PRX Gets Sciency
Current Berkman People and Projects 2013-04-03
This week: Journeying across the country alone and on foot, plus Jim Morrison on why fat is where it’s AT.
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April 2, 2013 PRX Gets Sciency
Hi friend of PRX,
Do you know the difference between pi and pie? Does circuit mean electricity to you? If you relish the perspective of a video like this in explaining scale… well, you might be the producer we hope applies for the STEM Story Project, the latest audio-funding effort from PRX. The Sloan Foundation is making it possible. Explain, reveal, engage – we want great stories on science, technology, engineering and math. Deadline is April 22!
-John
Journey Stories
Get listening
Take a listening journey with a man who set foot over 4,000 miles, coast to coast… with a microphone. It’s a coming of age story and a portrait of this country – big-hearted, wild, innocent, and wise.
From Transom/Atlantic Public Media, Jay Allison, and producer Andrew Forsthoefel.
- Another great journey story: Travels with Mike: In Search of America 50 Years After Steinbeck
No Need to Rhyme to be Fine
Poetry Month
- The godfather of Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg also wrote and sang songs. Here’s a quippy demonstration song against the Vietnam War.
- What can we come to know through poetry that we couldn’t through other forms of thinking and talking? Dive deeper with Philosophy Talk.
- WORDSHAKERS from Hearing Voices, includes entrancing recordings of Tennyson and Whitman, plus the poetics of cheerleaders and hot dog vendors.
- In this episode of 99% Invisible producer (and poet) Sean Cole discovers the architecture of a plaza where the words of Walt Whitman and Frank O’Hara are embedded.
PRXer and Poet Audrey Mardavich has more Poetry Month picks in our blog.
PRX Podcasts
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- Blank on Blank: Unleashing hidden archives and adding context. Subscribe to the podcast and get the latest for broadcast: Jim Morrison says fat is where it is AT.
- 99% Invisible: Design, science, technology, architecture — grab this HOT new show for broadcast and podcast.
- HowSound: What the cool kids are listening to: the backstory to great radio storytelling for broadcast and podcast.
- Latitude News is ahead of the curve on global stories, like the latest on conflict minerals in your laptop. Also as a podcast.
Other Good Stuff
- Join our STEM Story Project webinar this Friday at 2 ET.
- April 25th is DNA Day! Mapping Eliza will get you into the spirit with one woman’s genome sequencing adventure.
- Don’t miss the chance to air our American Graduate special Left Behind, Dropping Out before the schoolyear is up. Plus: many more AmGrad pieces.
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