TED Radio Hour
8:55 am
Fri June 22, 2012

How Do Schools Suffocate Creativity?

Credit Robert Leslie / TED
"There's a terrible tendency to confuse raising standards with standardizing." — Sir Ken Robinson

Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Building A Better Classroom. Watch Sir Ken Robinson's full Talks — Schools Kill Creativity and Bring On The Learning Revolution -- on TED.com

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TED Radio Hour
8:55 am
Fri June 22, 2012

How Can Videos "Flip The Classroom"?

Credit James Duncan Davidson / TED
"In order for the teachers to get you through the next hurdle, they have to make it more memorization based. And so what we say is no, let's just to do the opposite." — Salman Khan
TED Radio Hour
8:55 am
Fri June 22, 2012

How Can Fourth-Graders Solve World Problems?

Credit James Duncan Davidson / TED
Educator John Hunter says being a teacher is like reaching through time. "You're making an effect right here, in this room today you're not even aware of, and yet decades later — maybe even generations later, the effect can become apparent."
Music
8:53 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Local Produce, June 21

Johanna Divine navigates the musical landscape highlighting tunes from specific locales for each program.

The Salt
8:53 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Watch McDonald's Make A Supermodel Out Of A Quarter Pounder

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The picture perfect Quarter Pounder with Cheese

Originally published on Tue September 25, 2012 10:12 am

Music
8:51 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Francomix, June 21

Francomix features the latest releases from the international Francophone pop and dance scene, and also includes some Louisiana music.

Music
8:49 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Earth Beat, June 21

Music from around the map. For over a decade now, KRVS has devoted its Sunday evenings to World Music with this program as one of that evening's cornerstones. You can hear field recordings to contemporary hits from around the world. 

Cabinet of Wonders
8:48 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Five

Originally published on Fri June 22, 2012 3:07 pm

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KRVS Local
8:45 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Apres Midi June 21: The Six and Four Articulations Project

A sampling of modern and traditional Classical Music.

Interview with three members of The Six and Four Articulations Project, Krystal Redding, Jenny Hillenbrand and Emily Smith. All graduates of Alfred University in New York state, these young dancers/artists are touring the country performing their original choreography. They performed in Lafayette on Thursday June 21. For more information on their work and to see some of their movement pieces, these sites are available:

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The Two-Way
7:52 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Breivik's Defense Asks For Acquittal

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In this picture taken through bullet proof glass, mass killer Anders Behring Breivik looks on as he arrives for his trial in room 250 of Oslo's central court on June 21, 2012.

Originally published on Fri June 22, 2012 8:51 am

On the final day of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's trial, the defense is trying to portray him as an ideologically driven political militant rather than a delusional madman in hopes of getting a lighter sentence or an outright acquittal.

Breivik, 33, an anti-Muslim extremist, has admitted to the bombing and shooting that killed 77 people in the capital Oslo.

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