Donate to WERU Today!Producer/Host: Anu Dudley
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The Cosmic Curator 7/10/21: The Astrological Lowdown for Saturday July 10th and the Week to Follow…
This is your Cosmic Curator, Tom Yaroschuk, With the astrological lowdown for Saturday July 10th and the week to follow…
So, How are you feeling?
The cosmic vibe for the last few weeks has been brutal.
About the Host:
Tom Yaroschuk is a Vedic Astrologer. His intention is to help people understand their karma and the issues they may confront to cultivate more fulfilling lives. Tom is writing a memoir of the spiritual lessons derived from his work in a Homeless Day Center in between a career as an award winning television and documentary producer.
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Awanadjo Almanack 7/9/21: “Dog Days and Frog Days”
Producer/Host: Rob McCall
Production Assistance: Rebecca McCall
About the host, Rob McCall:
Born in the Black Hills of South Dakota, grew up in Oregon and Illinois. Father was a Scots-Irish preacher, mother a Yankee Congregationalist tracing her ancestry back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Father taught him about Scripture, mother taught him about Nature.
Bachelor of arts in philosophy, bachelor of divinity in American religious history, graduate studies in education, doctor of ministry in congregational studies, certified in elementary education, tree fruits and entomology.
Worked as an elementary school teacher, tree and landscape contractor, church sexton, orchard manager, chimney sweep, ambulance driver, musician. Began second career as a preacher at age 40. Served as minister of the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, Maine 1986 – 2014. He is currently chaplain of the Brooklin Fire Department.
Since 1992 has published the weekly Awanadjo Almanack which is broadcast to midcoast Maine and on the web at WERU-FM and appears in a number of publications. His writing has also appeared in Yankee, Down East, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Island Journal and elsewhere.
His first book, Small Misty Mountain, was published in 2006 by Pushcart Press and distributed by W.W. Norton. Publisher’s Weekly called it “by turns inspiring and infuriating.” His second book, Great Speckled Bird, followed in 2012. His third book, Some Glad Morning, was released in October 2020.
Passions include wild plants and animals, and traditional fiddle tunes. Married for 53 years to Rebecca Haley, artist and singer. Father of two, grandfather of two.
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Let’s Talk About It 7/9/21: Extreme Isolation
Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean
Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Guest:
Rebekah Lowell, illustrator and author of the middle grade book The Road to After, talks about how the man she met at 17 kept her and their two children captive for 10 years.
Terrorizing, Isolation, having your creativity stymied, the incompetence of the District Attorney.
About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.
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Essential Rhythm 7/8/21: I found a snail-It’s really big!
Producer/Host: Sarah O’Malley
This episode covers moon snails, sub tidal predatory snails of mud and sand bottoms. We describe their shell characteristics, feeding ecology and most common signs of activity (including bore holes on prey shells) as well as their ability to generate copious volumes of mucus.
About the host:
Sarah O’Malley is an ecologist, naturalist and science communicator passionate about deepening her listeners’ experiences with the natural world. She teaches biology and sustainability at Maine Maritime Academy and is currently collaborating on a guide book to the intertidal zone in the Gulf of Maine.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/8/21: Audacity Bits & Bytes
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
What is a bit, what is a byte, and why should we care? Good question. Here’s why…
Any, by the way, for users of Audacity audio software, the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy have changed. Worth a read through – here are the links:
www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
www.audacityteam.org/terms-of-service/
About the host:
Jim Campbell has a longstanding interest in the intersection of digital technology, law, and public policy and how they affect our daily lives in our increasingly digital world. He has banged around non-commercial radio for decades and, in the little known facts department (that should probably stay that way), he was one of the readers voicing Richard Nixon’s words when NPR broadcast the entire transcript of the Watergate tapes. Like several other current WERU volunteers, he was at the station’s sign-on party on May 1, 1988 and has been a volunteer ever since doing an early stint as a Morning Maine host, and later producing WERU program series including Northern Lights, Conversations on Science and Society, Sound Portrait of the Artist, Selections from the Camden Conference, others that will probably come to him after this is is posted, and, of course, Notes from the Electronic Cottage.
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The Technoptimist Show 7/7/21: A Machine That Makes Seashells out of CO2
Join Teresa Carey as she breaks down the latest news on the technology that is solving the world’s biggest problems. In today’s show, Teresa covers subterranean microbes in the fight against climate change, artificial intelligence at McDonalds, and a machine that turns carbon dioxide into seashells.
To learn more about the topics:
How Subterranean Microbes Are Devouring Carbon Emissions
McDonald’s Is Replacing Human Drive-Thru Attendants With AI
This Machine Will Make Seashells Out of CO2
Should We Genetically Engineer Carbon-Hungry Trees?
How Balloons Could Soak Up Carbon and Fight Climate Change
About the host:
Teresa Carey is a senior staff writer at Freethink.com, where she covers genetics and the environment. She is also a US Coast Guard licensed captain and a NatGeo Explorer. In addition to Freethink her work can be found in BuzzFeed, Scientific American, PBS NewsHour, NPR Weekend Edition, Smithsonian and more. @teresa_carey
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Maine Currents 7/6/21: Colin Woodard on his latest book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
Producer/Editor/Host: Amy Browne
Recorded by: Matt Murphy
Maine-based New York Times best-selling author Colin Woodard speaking in Blue Hill on June 24th, 2021, about his latest book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood FMI: www.colinwoodard.com
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices and Maine Currents, she also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and the First Place 2017 Radio News Award from the Maine Association of Broadcasters.
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