February 2012
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“When one’s in their 20s, I think one still feels that one can be destroyed...”
– Writer Nick Flynn was working in a homeless shelter in his 20s when his father – an alcoholic and self-proclaimed writer who left when Flynn was a baby – showed up as a client. His story is now a movie called Being Flynn, starring Paul Dano and Robert De Niro.
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“There was one neuron in one person that responded only to pictures of Jennifer...”
– Today on Fresh Air: understanding the Jennifer Aniston neuron
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“Some of the workers we spoke to were just horrified when they realized what they...”
– One year later: interviewing the workers who stayed behind at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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ahappyhuman asked: Did you post the story about the man who falls asleep when he's happy?
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“by looking at the pace with which viruses evolved, you can reverse engineer your...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, the history of the HIV virus.
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“The ability for a society to grasp the connection between sexual culture and the...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, how international AIDS organizations working in Africa went off in the wrong direction in fighting the spread of HIV across the continent.
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Hear a one-minute preview of the weekend show!...
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“The difference between the men who were circumcised and the men who weren’t was...”
– Monday: Journalist Craig Timberg says that for years, international AIDS groups overlooked important factors in the spread of the HIV virus, such as the effectiveness of circumcision. Timberg, the former Johannesburg bureau chief for The Washington Post, explores the history of the HIV virus and the...
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“When I started publishing, I most definitely would have liked to have published...”
– Publisher Barney Rosset, who championed the works of beat poets and Samuel Beckett and who defied censors with the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, died on Tuesday. He was 89. He was on Fresh Air in 1991.
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Fresh Air: SuperPACS →
We aired two segments on yesterday’s show. Both had to do with SuperPACs.
Republican and Democratic SuperPACs, empowered by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, can collect unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations and unions. Trevor Potter became a celebrity when he signed on as Stephen Colbert’s lawyer and advised the satirical TV host on how to...
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Emails exchanged yesterday
Email from Mel to DC: I'm sick. I'm not going to be in work today.
Email to Mel from DC: Thanks, Mel. We'll do the rubdown as audio-only today. Hope you feel better soon.
Email to Mel from DC: Ack!! Damn you, autocorrect. That should have said *rundown*. : )
Anonymous asked: WHO WAS THE AUTHOR TERRY HAD ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, TALKING ABOUT HOW ADVERTISERS TRACK YOU ON THE INTERNET? FASCINATING PIECE. XPN'S USUAL FINE JOURNALISM... ALONG WITH THE TUNES.
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“We know that Facebook has the ability and does target you on their website in an...”
– Joseph Turow on online privacy.
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“Social media is all about relationships. If you want to find people’s...”
– Joseph Turow, on why social media apps were gathering information from address books on iPhones.
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Fresh Air Offices, 11:42AM
Coworker: What are you doing up from your desk?
Mel: ???
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“Companies that don’t respect our information and where it comes from are...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, UPenn communications professor Joseph Turow explains how companies are defining your worth online.
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From the archives: New Orleans natives Harry...
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Anonymous asked: I'm curious about the process of deciding who conducts what interviews. Does whether a guest host comes in have to do strictly with scheduling, or is there more to it than that? For example, it seems like Dave Davies does every sports-related interview. Is that a coincidence, or is it because he knows more about sports than Terry? Are there other examples of this? Or is this all just in my...
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From the Archives: legendary New Orleans musician...
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From the Archives: Dr. John on Fresh Air
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From the archives (2007): Jazz trumpeter and New...
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“I would have played piano and then [gotten] Jason Segel and Walter the Muppet up...”
– How Bret McKenzie would have staged his Oscar Performance of ‘Man or Muppet’
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Stephen Sondheim on Leonard Bernstein
Terry Gross: Did you learn anything working with Bernstein and watching him work?
Stephen Sondheim: Oh, sure. A great deal. Yes. Mainly I learned something about courage. I learned – Lenny was never afraid to make big mistakes. He was never afraid to fall off the top rung of the ladder and I learned by implication that the worst thing you can do is fall off a low rung. If you're going to make a mistake, make a huge one.
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Fresh Air Remembers War Reporter Anthony Shadid →
It is with great sadness that we report the sudden death of a frequent Fresh Air guest.New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid suffered a fatal asthma attack yesterday in Syria, where he was reporting on the political uprising….[complete remembrance here]
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