Marco Werman

Boston, Brighton

Host and Executive Editor at The World from PRX

This is about stuff that I see and hear that may or may not get on the radio. Opinions are my own. And there's more @theworld

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A new global study allows dogs to ‘talk’ to their owners by pressing buttons that say human words - The World from PRX

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Marco Werman

6 hours agoSteve Hilton, a former Fox News host from Britain with Silicon Valley ties announced Monday that he is running for California governor. After a launch event in Southern California, Hilton made his way north for his first campaign stop: a visit to San Francisco’s downtown. The 55-year-old Republican, …
A new global study allows dogs to ‘talk’ to their owners by pressing buttons that say human words

2 weeks ago | theworld.org | Marco Werman

Researcher Jack Terwilliger looks at a video feed in his lab — a cozy room with a couple of tables and computers. He’s not just watching animal videos for amusement but examining a unique method to determine language patterns in dogs and other animals. He’s part of a global study that originated at the University of California San Diego’s Department of Cognitive Science and that has now extended to 47 different countries around the world.
The World: Latest Stories

3 weeks ago | play.prx.org | Marco Werman

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Dec 26, 2024 | play.prx.org | Marco Werman
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Nov 8, 2024 | play.prx.org | Marco Werman

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New publishing house dedicated to Asian American stories

Oct 18, 2024 | flipboard.com | Marco Werman

Asian American evangelicals' theology is conservative. But that doesn't mean they vote that wayThe Rev. Wayne Lee leads an English-speaking church of second- and third-generation Chinese Americans in the heart of Philadelphia’s Chinatown. His 120-strong evangelical Christian congregation in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania is under the same umbrella as two other immigrant …
It was a dream collaboration until the key collaborator died

Oct 10, 2024 | flipboard.com | Marco Werman

The rap mogul is set to face federal trial in May of 2025 on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and more. This is a breaking story about the …
Seafood cultivated in a lab could help mitigate the next pandemic

Aug 8, 2024 | theworld.org | Marco Werman

Katsumi Kusumoto has become a celebrity chef in Japan for his awareness of the environmental pressures on food systems and his adaptation of menus to be less reliant on mass-produced animal protein. Thinking outside the bento box got Chef Kusumoto to partner with a high-tech food company in Israel called Forsea. “The Japanese consumed 160,000 metric tons of eel in 2000. Today, they consume only 30,000, and that’s because it’s just not available,” said Roee Nir, co-founder and CEO of Forsea.
NHS blood scandal in the UK on Apple Podcasts

May 21, 2024 | podcasts.apple.com | Marco Werman

Investigators in Britain have recently released an explosive report detailing how more than 30,000 UK residents contracted HIV or hepatitis from tainted blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. Survivors of the contamination and their families have welcomed new pledges of compensation. And, security forces rescued 350 hostages from Boko Haram captivity in Nigeria on Monday. The hostages had been held in a forest enclave by the militants before they were rescued.
‘I’m processing’: Israelis and international tourists visit sites of Oct. 7 attacks - The World from PRX

May 1, 2024 | theworld.org | Marco Werman

In the Israeli town of Tkuma, about 3 miles from the Gaza Strip, vehicles in various states of destruction sit in a giant lot. It resembles a graveyard for cars — many are just brown shells with the paint burned off from the attacks by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023. A lot of these cars belonged to people attending the Nova music festival. Many tried to escape in them, only to be chased down by Hamas and attacked. “I call it the largest murder scene of the modern era, if you want.