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  • Shabazz Palaces

    Performed at NPR’s Tiny Desk

    MUSICIANS : Ishmael Butler, Tendai Maraire, Otis Calvin

  • Marian McPartland, ‘Piano Jazz’ Host, Has Died. NPR

    Thanks for the many lessons.

    Marian McPartland died of natural causes Tuesday night at her home in Long Island, N.Y. She was 95.

  • parents reward effective arguments

    I like this story.

    Allen says almost all parents and teenagers argue. But it’s the quality of the arguments that makes all the difference.

    “We tell parents to think of those arguments not as nuisance but as a critical training ground,” he says. Such arguments, he says, are actually mini life lessons in how to disagree — a necessary skill later on in life with partners, friends and colleagues on the job.

    Teens should be rewarded when arguing calmly and persuasively and not when they indulge in yelling, whining, threats or insults, he says.

    In Allen’s study, 157 13-year-olds were videotaped describing their biggest disagreement with their parents. The most common arguments were over grades, chores, money and friends. The tape was then played for both parent and teen.

    And so.

    Effective arguing acted as something of an inoculation against negative peer pressure. Kids who felt confident to express themselves to their parents also felt confident being honest with their friends.

  • The Leader Of Hip-Hop’s Tea Party Movement : NPR

    Jay Smooth on Waka:

    Waka Flocka Flame simply shouts the simplest couplets imaginable at the top of his lungs, often mixed with wordless grunts and growls and screams over a beat that sounds like the marching band that would come with the four horsemen of the apocalypse as they destroy the earth.

    story. transcript.  ‘Hard in da Paint’ is produced by Lex Luger.

    What will you listen to, during the apocalypse?

  • [NPR] The Declaration of Independence, Read aloud

    I always enjoy listening to the Declaration, being read.  NPR‘s twenty-second reading.

  • On Haiti

    NPR’s PlanetMoney + PBS’s Frontline have teamed up on some post-quake Haiti reporting.

    On the economy inside a tent city.
    On tap-taps.

    The embedded videos may not work; wacth them on Frontline.

  • Best ways help haitians.

    I highly recommend professionally-run organizations like Food for the Poor, Lambi Fund of Haiti and Doctors without Borders(Medecins sans Frontieres).  Celebrity-run are well-meaning but are amateur, to say the least.

    Here are some stories about Yele; Gawker, NPR.  Yele is not one of the better way to help.

  • Haiti seats on major regional faults

    Haiti’s First Major Quake In Two Centuries

    The second fault system on Hispaniola runs mainly on the eastern end of the island, in the Dominican Republic. That Septentrional fault system hasn’t experienced a major quake for more than 800 years, but it holds the potential for producing another devastating quake — quite possibly larger than the one that struck Haiti on Tuesday.