-
Sep 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jonathan Taplin
Continue reading More for You Continue reading More for You
-
Sep 22, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Jonathan Taplin
It was only 12 years ago that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, declared that the company’s culture was to “move fast and break things.” Perhaps he was thinking narrowly about software, and telling engineers that they shouldn’t be afraid to try new things just because it might break some old lines of code or program functions. But in practice, we now know it’s not just software.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Jonathan Taplin
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request from the owners of a Sawtooth Valley ranch to review a case over a public trail that crosses their property. An order issued on Monday determined the case, Sawtooth Mountain Ranch, et al. v. U.S. Forest Service, et al., did not warrant a review by the Court. At issue is a 4.5-mile-long trail that connects Stanley to Redfish Lake within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Mitra Arthur |Jonathan Taplin
This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk is giving the ladies their flowers. We’re releasing nine Tiny Desk concerts from Black women artists, from veterans who’ve paved the way for what we hear today in Black music, to those who are carving out their own paths.
When the “Queen of Funk,” Chaka Khan, began to sing her hit “Sweet Thing” at the Tiny Desk, she seemed surprised at how the audience enthusiastically joined in. It’s just one example of how ingrained her work is in the fabric of music history.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Ryan Lucas |Jonathan Taplin
A federal jury in Delaware has convicted President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, on felony gun charges stemming from his purchase of a Colt revolver in 2018 when he was addicted to crack cocaine.
The verdict, handed down after three hours of deliberations, capped a weeklong trial in federal court in Wilmington, Del.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Sally Herships |Jonathan Taplin
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:Yankees versus the Red Sox, Ohio State versus Michigan - sure, those are legendary sports rivalries, but the biggest in the world might be India versus Pakistan in cricket. So when the two countries met yesterday in New York for the T20 Cricket World Cup, it was a little tense and quite the scene. Here's reporter Sally Herships. SALLY HERSHIPS, BYLINE: It's not even 9 A.M., and the crowd entering the stadium is already huge. Fans like Abhishek Sonkar and his wife are pumped up.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Nell Greenfieldboyce |Jonathan Taplin
Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names.
That’s according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, which was inspired by earlier work showing that bottlenose dolphins have signature whistles.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Lara Downes |Jonathan Taplin
History, we know, is always in the making — an aggregate of small actions, reactions and interactions, every flap of every butterfly’s wings. Yet most of the time, we have no idea what will come of any of it. Even when circumstances converge to highlight a transformative moment, there’s no seeing the flow of the future.
On April 9, 1939, the 42-year-old American contralto and international star Marian Anderson stepped onto a temporary stage on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and began to sing.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Jonathan Taplin
When you hear the word jazz, what sounds come to mind?
Maybe it’s the sweet and savory notes from a saxophone, played by the likes of the legendary John Coltrane. Or the authoritative trumpets of pioneers like Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard. Maybe it’sthe sweet vocals of Ella Fitzgerald or the plinking of the ivories by Robert Glasper or Thelonious Monk.
No matter what comes to mind, the soulful genre, born in New Orleans about 100 years ago, has always been popular.
-
Jun 11, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Alejandra Borunda |Jonathan Taplin
Greg Hess deals with death day in, day out.
Hess is the medical examiner for Pima County, Ariz., a region along the United States-Mexico border. His office handles some 3,000 deaths each year — quiet deaths, overdoses, gruesome deaths, tragic ones.
From April through October every year, Hess is confronted with an increasingly obvious and dramatic problem: His morgue drawers fill with people who died sooner than they should have because of Arizona’s suffocating heat.
