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Posted on Friday, January 11, 2013

Subscribe to the “Ultimate On Point Playlist” on Spotify and we’ll keep it up-to-date with all the music we play on the show. It’s a short playlist now, but will soon be mighty.

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Posted on Wednesday, January 9, 2013

We put together a Spotify playlist of the music we played on our show on new music for 2013.

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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2012

An update for all you Ai Weiwei lovers — he is rescheduled and will be talking to us on January 10th.

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Dave Brubeck performs with his quartet at the 50th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I., Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004. Brubeck, 83, made his first appearance at the second Newport festival in 1955 and has appeared regularly since. (AP)
Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Jazz man Dave Brubeck and music professor/peace activist Derrill Bodley were longtime friends.

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Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012

Let’s kick off the crowdsourcing!

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Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2012

On October 24, we aired a show about iPads in the classroom. One of our guests, Janet Frazier, made some assertions about the Lexington County School District One. Mary Beth Hill, the chief communications officer for the district, sent us this response to comments made during the show.

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Posted on Monday, October 15, 2012

Shehla Anjum — an Anchorage-based writer who was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan — called into our show today to talk about her visit to Pakistan earlier this year when she visited Malala Yousafzai and her family. She asked if we could post this profile she wrote about Malala so our listeners could check it out.

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Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012

Check out this great video of Martin Sexton performing his song “Friends Again” in our studio.

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Posted on Friday, September 7, 2012

Relying on memory–weak reed!–for two weeks in a row, I said that The Economist had endorsed Bush in 2000 and 2004. The magazine did in 2000, but backed John Kerry in 2004. I apologize to our listeners.

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tweets
Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Tom is actively tweeting this week and next from the Republican and Democratic conventions. Scene, moments, Michelle Bachmann, Karl Rove. Check it out on Twitter: @tomashbrooknpr.

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May 24, 2013
President Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Oklahoma’s monster tornado. The president on counterterrorism. A vote on gay Boy Scouts.

May 24, 2013
A metal fan crowd surfs in a mosh pit during the heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air in Germany. (Philipp Guelland, DAPD/AP)

The definitive history of heavy metal and what it’s always been about.

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May 23, 2013
In this 2011 photo, U.S. Navy sailors participate in intense 10-minute workout intervals. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael K. McNabb/U.S. Navy)

Rock-hard bodies in a fraction of the time. We’ll look at the 7-minute workout and the promises of high-intensity exercise.

 
May 23, 2013
In this 2010 photo, a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards is seen at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Congress says food stamps are costing the country too much and debating big cuts. One in every seven Americans is using them to eat. What’s going on?

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Is American Coming Undone?
Thursday, May 23, 2013

New York writer George Packer says yes. He reflected on the nation’s core institutions failing the American people.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Henry Fords Of Today
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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