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Rock Doc
6:46 am
Thu April 26, 2012

Rock Doc: Our Daily Bread In 2050

One of my habits in recent years has been studying climate history in my free time. What can I say; it keeps me out of bars.

Recently, I was startled to learn that the temperatures experienced by American wheat farms back in the 1830s were almost 7 degrees warmer than they now are.

At first I thought I had misread that statistic. After all, we know that temperatures in our country have been on the uptick since 1850 when North America emerged from a cooler era. And, surely, if climate scientists are right, temperatures in just the past couple of decades are clearly up from what they used to be.

So how could modern American wheat farmers be facing much colder climes than they were in the 1830s?

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Commentaries
12:25 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey

Dr. Lawrence Pintak, Founding Dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University.

Dr. Lawrence Pintak, Founding Dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, responds to the recent This American Life controversy surrounding their story on Apple's manufacturing practices in China. This commentary appeared today in the Columbia Journalism Review.

Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell on its sword over its bad Apple episode. The gesture was a noble one. As CJR’s Ryan Chittum put it:

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Corinna Nicolaou
5:04 pm
Thu February 23, 2012

Money State Of Mind

Commentator Corinna Nicolaou
Photo credit: Corinna Nicolaou / Northwest Public Radio

In today's economy, many Americans have to get by on less.  That means learning new strategies for saving money and living without.  NWPR commentator Corinna Nicolaou talks about growing up poor, and the ways in which wealth may really be a state of mind.

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