Recently Google announced its plans to spend tens of millions on research, development and related investments in renewable energy. Google believes it can produce electricity at scale cost less than coal. It also believes it can do this in years, not decades.
With Google taking the lead, what does this say about the future of energy [...]
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When someone broke into Sean Taylor’s home in the middle of the night and killed him earlier this week, was it a case of some trouble from Sean’s past catching up with him, or a random crime? We don’t know, yet, but if I had to guess, I would guess that he was targeted, given [...]
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“Prostitution is hilarious!”
I’m always shocked when I hear about some stupid group on a college campus having a Pimp’s and Ho’s party, or a “Ghetto” themed party where you are encouraged to bring 40’s in brown paper bags and “wear your favorite gang colors!” I mean, do these people really not get it? Are they [...]
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In 2004, Joel Hafvenstein went to Afghanistan as part of an aid program to help Afghan opium farmers find alternative ways to make money. Predictably, the program ran into resistance from the area’s drug trafficking warlords, and responded with ambushes. Within just a few months, nine of his colleagues were dead.
He’s our guest today to [...]
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A socialist and a capitalist walk into a bar….
The beginning of a joke, right? Not today. Today we have a socialist (A. Robert Kaufman) and a capitalist (Okay, well not specifically a capitalist, but a business writer, so he writes about capitalism and for the most part we’re all capitalists, after all….anyway it’s Jay Hancock [...]
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Ever wonder where the electricity in your home comes from? Go to this website, type in your zipcode, and within seconds you can see the power plants on your grid. They’ll also tell you if they use any coal taken from mountaintop removal mines, [...]
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If you listen to Morning Edition or All Things Considered on Thursdays, you may have heard a documentary feature series called Just Words. It’s a project that Marc and I have been working hard on for the past year. It’s purpose is to go into the worlds of marginalized disenfranchised people, from low-wage workers to [...]
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Seems like this week’s Middle East peace conference in Annapolis has come back from the dead. Everyone was saying that the conference had become irrelevant–that no one was coming, it would only be one day, and it wouldn’t make a dent in the enormous amount of work and negotiation that needs to occur between Palestine and [...]
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It’s the busiest travel day of the year and before you head over the river and through the woods join us for an hour of open phones where your calls and comments determine the topics.
-Marcus
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Today we present a special program titled Martin and Malcolm: One Vision - Two Voices. Produced, in cooperation with the Maryland Humanities Council, Marc moderated a discussion between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , portrayed by actor Bill Grimmette, and Malcolm X, portrayed by actor Charles Everett Pace. The program was recorded before a live audience [...]
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