The Sound Bites Orgy® 2010

As part of the usual end-of-the-semester WHRB celebration, called Orgy Season, WHRB News dedicated two hours to segments on food.

Eating is always a favorite topic for us, but this fall WHRB News noticed a special emphasis on food, from new Harvard Square restaurants to new courses to a new government health campaigns.

I. Pick Your Own: Allan Bradley called up Aaron Libby, owner of a small pick-your-own orchard in Limerick, Main.

II. Economics of Food Consumption: Following the recent recession, WHRB correspondent James Pollack discussed the impact it has had on food consumption with Professor Raj Chetty.

III. Ghee Whiz: Kevin Sun speaks to Sukhwinder Singh, co-owner of India Pavilion in Cambridge, and Ranveer Singh, corporate chef for One World Cuisine, about the finer details of Indian food.

IV. Talking Diet with a Dietitian: Allan Bradley sat down with registered dietitian Kathleen Searles to talk about gaining control over what we eat on a daily basis.

V. Mollie Katzen: Daniel Gross spoke with chef Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook, a collection of recipes from Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, NY, as well as the more recent Get Cooking, a collection of simple and accessible recipes.

VI. Obesity: James Pollack explores the obesity epidemic in the United States.

VII. Everybody's a Critic: Chris Kilgore looks at the website Yelp and its effect on the restaurant reviewing business.

VIII. The Science of Beer: Natalie Panno takes a tour at Harpoon Brewery and learns how beer is made.

IX. Devra First: Abigail Lind explores the art of food criticism with Devra First, who writes restaurant reviews for The Boston Globe.

X. How It's Made: Chris Kilgore looks back at the "Science of Cooking" class at Harvard this fall.

Host: Daniel Gross

From Across the Yard: Dreams and Galaxies

I. Schools of Thought: Public Education Reform in 2010 (Part Three):

II. Fermi Bubbles:

III. A Drunken Dream:

IV. Week in Review:

Host: Daniel Gross

From Across The Yard: Bank Robbers, Water, CIA

I. The Way We Live Now...Bank Robberies!: Sean Bender asks, where have all the career bank robbers gone? Are there any in Boston?

II. A Shortage of H2O: The UN adopted a resolution in July that affirmed the right to clean water. Vipul Shekhawat reports.

III. Fair Game: Abigail Lind reviews Fair Game, about the revealing of CIA Agent Valerie Plame's identity.

IV. Election Wrap-Up: Allan Bradley speaks on the aftermath of an exciting election.

Host: Amy Friedman

Election Special

Allan Bradley and Daniel Gross with live election commentary and interviews and pieces by WHRB News.

From Across the Yard: More Mice

I. Smelling Light: Natalie Panno speaks with Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Venkatesh Murthy about mice that researchers from Harvard and Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory have engineered to "smell" light.

II. Week in Review: President Obama promotes Democrats up for election. France protests a change to social security. Harvard Professor Roger Owen explains democracy in Iraq. Wikileaks's secret documents. Allan Bradley reports.

From Across the Yard: Education and Four Lokos

I. Schools of Thought: Public Education Reform in 2010 (Part Two): Abigail Lind looks at the history of public schools in the United States in the second part of our series Schools of Thought.

II. Quintessential College: Four Loko has been banned at Ramapo College after 16 hospitalizations for alcohol poisoning. Cornell has banned alcohol at parties with freshman attendees. Daniel Gross weighs in on the issue of underage college drinking.

II. Week in Review: Chilean miners get rescued, Google invests in a offshore wind energy project called the Atlantic Wind Connection. By Allan Bradley.

Host: Abigail Lind

From Across the Yard: Facebook, Superman, Mice

I. Opinion on Opinion: Daniel Gross explores the critic and buzz, in honor of The Social Network.

II. Schools of Thought: Public Education Reform in 2010 (Part 1): Waiting for Superman drew attention to the abysmal test scores of American public school students. Abigail Lind finds out more.

III. MICE: The first ever Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, or MICE, hosted by the Boston Comics Roundtable took place in late September. Natalie Panno went to check it out and speak to some of its participants.

IV. Week in Review: Foreclosure, Afghanistan, the race for Massachusetts governor, by Allan Bradley.

Host: Natalie Panno

From Across the Yard: Tao Lin and the news

I. Richard Yates: Natalie Panno speaks with author Tao Lin about his book Richard Yates, Wikipedia, "I'm Still Here," Whole Foods, and more.

II. Week in Review: Allan Bradley and Daniel Gross with this week's headlines.

Host: Abigail Lind.

From Across The Yard: Tim McCarthy and Don't Ask Don't Tell

I. Don't Ask Don't Tell: Reporter Allan Bradley interviews Harvard Kennedy School Professor Timothy McCarthy after the Senate fails to pass a repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, September 21st.  McCarthy is a Lecturer in History and Literature and Public Policy, and he directs the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center.

II. Week in Review:  Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell falls to a filibuster in the Senate, Japan and China are engaged in a diplomatic tussle over maritime claims in the East China Sea, and Harvard University chooses to honor Martin Peretz despite student and faculty protest.

Host: Natalie Panno

From Across the Yard: Gary Shteyngart

I. Super Sad: Reporter Abigail Lind speaks with Gary Shteyngart about his new book, Super Sad True Love Story (Random House). Coming soon.

II. Week in Review: Allan Bradley takes at look at current events.

From Across the Yard: Postcards, Pictures, Farmers Markets.

I. Greetings from Boston: Abigail Lind visits the Boston Public Library to see their news show, Greetings from Boston, all about postcards.

II. Our World at War: Natalie Panno checks out the new photo exhibit, Our World at War, on the lower level of Harvard's Center for International Studies (South Wing) and talks to photographer Ron Haviv and VII Director Stephen Mayes.

III. What is Organic?: Daniel Gross goes to the Farmer's Market at Harvard.

IV. Week in Review: The first in a series of weekly segments by Allan Bradley.

Host: Allan Bradley.

Foreverendia and Reel-to-Reel Orgies

Our Spring 2010 orgies include a stage play adapted for radio and a collection of reel-to-reel recordings from our archives.

Stay tuned for links to relevant articles and information regarding the stories from our reel-to-reel orgy.

Thanks for listening!

From Across the Yard: April 18, 2010

To listen to the show in its entirety, click here: 4/18/2010

Thanks to our host, Daniel Gross.

• Tea Partiers - Allan Bradley attends a rally in Boston for the Tea Party Movement to interview attendants about their views on the government and guest speaker Sarah Palin.
• iTunesU - Abigail Lind looks into Harvard's new program to distribute lecture recordings through iTunes.
• The Elusive Grad Student - Alyce de Carteret goes in search of the Graduate Student, a species of student often encountered at Harvard University. She encounters the Bridget Alex, who studies archeology and human and evolutionary biology.
• Speaking Freely, Pedro Noguera - Dennis Raimondi interview Noguera, a professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, on his show Speaking Freely. (Listen to the whole interview here) (Edited by Natalie Panno.)

Thanks for tuning in!

From Across The Yard: April 4, 2010

To listen to the show, click here: FATY 4/4/2010

Thanks to our host, Abigail Lind!

• UC Schools - A commentary by Rachel Gross on the state of California universities during the present budget crunch.
• Darwin - Allan Bradley interviews Janet Browne, the biographer of Charles Darwin.
• Burgerman - Natalie Panno talks with Sam Novey, a junior at Harvard, about running the Boston Marathon to raise money for Citizen Schools.
  
• Passover - Alyce de Carteret explores the story of Passover.

Tune in next time!

From Across The Yard: February 21, 2010

Check out the whole show here: FATY 2/21/2010

Thanks to our host, Daniel Gross!

• Challah for Haiti - Natalie Panno stops by the Chabad House at Harvard to watch challah being made for a sale to benefit Haiti.
  
• Chris Bradford - Allan Bradley interviews Bradford, the founder and chief officer of the African Leadership Academy.
  
• Speaking Freely, Devanna De La Puente-Forte - Dennis Raimondi interivews De La Puente-Forte, a humanitarian worker whose focus is women's rights, on his show Speaking Freely. (Listen to the whole interview here) (Edited by Alyce de Carteret.)
• Fundraisers - Daniel Gross talks to the ever-present fundraisers in Harvard Square.

Thanks for tuning in!

From Across The Yard: November 22, 2009

This episode, the last of the year, will be up soon!

Thanks to our host, Allan Bradley.

This week:

• Ted Kennedy's Seat - Elizabeth Bloom interviews Harvard student Kenzie Bok, president-elect of the Harvard Institute of Politics and a Democratic State Committeewoman for Massachusetts, on the best candidate for Kennedy's Senate seat.
• Poet Charles Bernstein visits Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room. Daniel Gross reports.
  
• Pirate Radio - Abigail Lind reviews the new movie Pirate Radio.
• Patricia Parker - Dennis Raimondi speaks with Parker, the founder of KIDS FOR KIDS, which helps children living in remote villages in Darfur, on his show Speaking Freely. (Listen to the entire interview here.) (Edited by Alyce de Carteret.)

Listen again next week!

From Across The Yard: November 8, 2009

If you missed this week's From Across the Yard, check it out here: FATY 11.08.09

Thanks to our host, Natalie Panno!

This week:

• Professer Noam Chomsky - Elizabeth Bloom interviews MIT professor Noam Chomsky on the subject of Israel.
• Harvard Going Green - WHRB reporter Daniel Gross looks at how Harvard has worked to become environmentally friendly in recent years.
• Greg Epstein - Allan Bradley interviews Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain of Harvard, on the subject of humanism and his new book, Good Without God.
  
• Cupcakes - Abigail Lind finds out why cupcakes are so popular, and where in Cambridge to get them.

Tune in next time!