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Meet Bill Meyer
Monday, March 22 2010
by Amber Nimocks and Frank Stasio
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As a clinical social worker in Duke University Medical Center’s high-risk obstetrics clinic, Bill Meyer helps mothers attend to their infant’s emotional needs when their own needs have never been acknowledged. Most of the pregnant women and girls he treats live in poverty and have histories of neglect and abuse. He joins host Frank Stasio to discuss his work with unsupported mothers and his latest interest: how mental health organizations have been used to promote social bigotry.
Gmish
Friday, March 19 2010
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
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Klezmer is a form of Jewish folk music which draws on Yiddish and Hebrew traditions. It's secular, but deeply spiritual. Carrboro based Klezmer band Gmish brings its clarinet, drums, tenor banjo and violin to our studios to play live and share some of the style's history and variations.
Internet Sweepstakes Cafes
Friday, March 19 2010
by Frank Stasio and Greg Margolis
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Some of their signs advertise, “Money, Mo Money, Come on, Get It.” But despite what internet sweepstakes cafes promise, many North Carolina towns believe these businesses are nothing more than get-rich-quick schemes that skirt the state’s ban on internet gambling. Rocky Mount Telegram Reporter Mike Hixenbaugh and Independent Weekly Editor Lisa Sorg join host Frank Stasio to discuss the booming business of sweepstakes cafes and what some municipalities are doing to try to stop them.
Make your Own Haggadah
Friday, March 19 2010
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
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On March 29th, Jews all over the world will celebrate Passover with a ritual meal called a seder. The one thing all seders have in common is that participants read from a book called a Haggadah. But no two Haggadahs are alike. And more and more people are making their own. Rabbi Michael Goldman joins host Frank Stasio to tell the Passover story, explain the seder meal and share some of the more interesting and creative Haggadahs people have made for themselves.
The Unconverted Self
Thursday, March 18 2010
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
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Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the UNC-Chapel Hill. He's the author or co-author of more than a dozen books on Jewish life, history, ethnography and thought. He traces his impressive career as a scholar to his childhood on his family's chicken farm in New Jersey, their subsequent move to suburbia and his undergraduate years in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s. Jonathan Boyarin joins host Frank Stasio to talk about his new book, "The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe" (University of Chicago Press/2009) and how his life experience informs his work.
50 Years of Computing at UNC
Thursday, March 18 2010
by Frank Stasio and Katy Barron
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U.N.C. Photo Lab., No. 19092
A panel discussion on the use of computing in academia takes place today on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill. It marks the 50th anniversary of the university’s very first computation center—a basement room that had to be reinforced with steel beams to support the 64,000 pound behemoth computer it housed. Larry Conrad, UNC’s chief information officer, joins host Frank Stasio to reminisce about the early days of campus technology and to discuss where it’s headed next.
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