October 2008
→ George
(27th October 2008)
For some time now, a story has been circulating about how the voters of San Francisco will be asked whether to decide whether to name a local sewage plant after George W. Bush. The media coverage has been consistent: The story is considered to be a) funny and b) perfectly logical. Sewage is the lowest of the low, so it perfectly suits a president with ...
→ WHYY
(23rd October 2008)
An interview with the charming Marty Moss-Coane, on WHYY's Radio Times, the NPR station in my former student home of Philadelphia.
WHYY \"The Big Necessity\"
→ PBS
(22nd October 2008)
I have been interviewed on television twice in my life. The first time was in Liberia, when I featured on Clar TV, a station owned by George Weah, world-famous footballer and - thankfully - failed candidate for the Liberian presidency. The second time was on the PBS show Foreign Exchange, for a special programme dedicated to water issues that was done in conjunction with ...
→ WNYC
(21st October 2008)
An hour or so of chat with Leonard Lopate, the avuncular and professorial (he reminded me of my professors, anyway) host of the Leonard Lopate show in New York. WNYC have extremely nice offices, by the way.
The interview is here:
(21st October 2008)
A radio interview and TV, in one easy package. I liked Lionel; he liked the book. A happy situation.
→ Salon
(15th October 2008)
→ Wash
(15th October 2008)
Happy Global Handwashing Day! Don't laugh. Handwashing is serious business. So serious, the all-powerful Centers for Disease Control has a five-step guide to how to do it properly. Handwashing is the third part of the trinity of health and hygiene, along with good sanitation and clean water. If you have all of those things, you cut your risk of diarrhoea, disease and death by ...