Today's Talk Shows on WMUB (http://www.wmub.org/today)
Tuesday, August 28, 2001
the Todd Mundt Show (9am - 10am, repeated 7pm -8pm)
How the leaning tower of Pisawas saved.
NOTE: Todd Mundt moves to a NEW day, beginning Thursday September 6th.
The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon); guest host Laura Knoy
Hour one: Ralph Nader
Hour two: a memoir of a divisive strike in the 1930's
Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm); guest host Neal Conan
Soul Music Week continues with interviews with JERRY BUTLER
and the late CURTIS MAYFIELD
Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm); guest host Frank Stasio
Tech Tuesday: how a Harvard psychologist laid the foundation
for the Internet
Talk of the Nation with Juan Williams (2pm - 4pm)
Hour One: who are the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Hour Two: parks exclusively for dogs
All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
Olin College is a brand new school trying to attract
top-notch engineering students
coming up soon in local talk
(live and interactive 9am - 10am, repeated 7pm - 8pm)
tomorrow on Sound Health with Marianne Russ
Headaches.
NOTE: This will be Marianne Russ's last show before she
leaves to attend graduate school at Ohio University.
Thursday on Help Desk
Mac and PC questions answered with Ted Beerman and Guy Moore.
NOTE: Help Desk moves to a NEW day, beginning Tuesday September 4th.
DETAILS:
the Todd Mundt Show (9am - 10am, repeated 7pm -8pm)
The leaning tower of Pisa. It leaned a bit too much and in
1990, on the verge of collapse, it was closed to visitors. It
re-opened this summer. Engineer John Burland devised a way to save
the tower. He'll tell us how he did it.
NOTE: Todd Mundt moves to a NEW day, beginning Thursday September 6th.
The Diane Rehm Show (10am - Noon); guest host Laura Knoy
Hour one: Ralph Nader: Former Green Party presidential
candidate Ralph Nader talks about his latest projects and his views
on third-party politics, the new Administration, and other topics.
Hour two: Cheri Register: With Labor Day coming up, writer
and teacher Cheri Register tells the story of a meatpackers' strike
that divided her Minnesota hometown when she was growing up in the
1950's. In her memoir, "Packinghouse Daughter" (Harper Perennial),
she combines her own memories of the strike with historical research.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Noon - 1pm)
Soul Music Week continues with interviews from the FRESH AIR
archive with JERRY BUTLER and the late CURTIS MAYFIELD. Before they
became celebrities they worked together as founding members of the
Impressions.
Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi (1pm - 2pm); guest host Frank Stasio
Tech Tuesday: A MAN NAMED "LICK" CHANGED YOUR LIFE. HE'S
CREDITED WITH CREATING THE "HUMAN-COMPUTER SYMBIOSIS" THAT RESULTED
IN THE INTERNET. ON THIS TECH TUESDAY, LEARN HOW AN EXPERIMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGIST FROM HARVARD ESSENTIALLY GAVE RISE TO THE COMPUTER
REVOLUTION. Guest: M. Mitchell Waldrop, author of "The Dream Machine:
J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal";
also former senior writer at Science magazine
Talk of the Nation with Juan Williams (2pm - 4pm)
Hour one: WHO ARE THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF? President Bush
has nominated a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It's an
institution that's been criticized for lacking innovation. Can that
be changed? And how important is the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Hour two: DOG PARKS: There's a trend in America of building
parks exclusively for dogs. Should scarce urban green space be used
just for man's best friend? Some people say no.
All Things Considered (4pm - 7pm)
Olin College is a brand new school outside Boston, trying to
attract top-notch engineering students. The assignment to this first
class of freshmen: design the new campus. It's an approach that gives
the students a chance to learn skills by working on a real-life
project.
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