Producer/host: Carolyn Coe and programmers from Radio Sumpul
A Radio Sumpul News short feature on cooking and deforestation
RadioActive 4/19/07
Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Contributor: Carolyn Coe
Topics: Project Occupation was back in Bangor today urging Senator Susan Collins to stop funding the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile in the nearby courthouse, arraignments were taking place for some of the activists arrested at the March protest at the Senator’s office. Also, an update on impeachment efforts. FMI: www.maineimpeach.org
Also, an interview with Julie Beckford of Rebel Hill Farm–grower of the plants sold in the annual PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action) fund-raiser, taking place now. FMI: www.pica.ws
Baby Talk 4/19/07
Producer/host: Cathy Jacobs
Topic: Seeing Babies with New Eyes
How has our view of babies and their abilities changed over the past 30 years? What do babies need most from their parents and caregivers? What are some characteristics of young babies?
Guests: Murielle Dibiase and Marella Averill from Southern Kennebec Child Development Services
Note: The first few minutes of the program were not recorded. Here is the quote that Cathy Jacobs started the show with this month:
” Until about 30 years ago, it was a common misconception, even among scientists, that newborns are incapable beings who do little more than sleep, cry and digest food. We now know that newborns are competent and have some amazing abilities. For example, newborns feel pain, think, dream, differentiate tastes and track a slowly moving object with their eyes. Perhaps the most striking example of infants’ complex abilities is shown by two-hour-old infants’ preference for hearing something their mother read aloud repeatedly before they were born. Clearly, many abilities are already finely tuned…”
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 4/19/07
Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Topic: National Security Letters
The World Around Us 4/19/97
Producer/host: Sarah O’Malley
Topic: Spring Plankton
Common Health 4/18/07
Producer/host: Jim Fisher
Topic: Building a better public health system. What is public health? Who is building the new system? How do we provide services in rural areas?
Guests: Doug Micael, Director, Healthy Acadia; Shawn Yardley, Director, Bangor Department of Health and Welfare
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EarthSense 4/18/07
Producer/host: Phil Bailey
Topic: Bees
Ask W.A.M. (Wildlife Alliance of Maine) 4/18/07
Producers/hosts: Daryl DeJoy and Cherie Mason