Another NPR find…

So, I like to make fun of the contained (for now) insanity that is North Korea as much as the next girl. It’s too surreal to believe most of the time, so what else can we do?…

Yesterday morning I was listening to Morning Edition on NPR (as you do) when I heard this gem of a story about Seizo Fukumoto, one of chanbara’s greatest unknown actors- unknown because he was never a leading man. He was …

Yesterday I was listening to NPR (as you do) when I heard Diane Rehm rasping out something about the Rape of Nanking. I told my kid to go run in circles until he fell down (he thinks it’s fun) so …

Bwahahahahaha! Yellow Menace scooped NPR!

Back on June 6th I posted a BBC article about Super Cool Biz. A couple days ago I heard a report on NPR about the same thing! I beat NPR to a story! Granted, a …

I pretty much listen to NPR about 8 hours a day, because otherwise I would no idea what is going on in the world and would never be able to talk to other grown-ups again. This morning on Weekend Edition …

NPR’s been running a series of stories on ‘cultural fragmentation’, or how society has become a series of nested, isolated subcultures – and this week featured their take on SquareEnix’s long-running Final Fantasy series. It’s an interesting piece, but frankly …

     What passes for drama in the classroom is often half-baked and mostly faked.  Without proper planning, classroom theater ends up as an exercise in giggling.  Perhaps classroom drama should look to gaming for a little help.  I think there is …

I was listening to Talk of the Nation today (as you do). It seems Thursday’s pressing and relevant news story- I kid, Neil, I love your show- was the Best Female Action Heroes in movies. Theu discussed Ripley from Alien …

China is now allowing the “bourgeois decadence” of belly dancing to be taught…by a dude.

I Like to Move It Move It

I admit I would feel weird learning belly dancing from a man. I would feel weird belly dancing …