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First Aired - 02/21/2010 12:00PM
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Christina Grace, Michael Hurwitz & Patrick Manning talk about the agriculture business and Bob Wyatt & Johnny Saunders explain a new methods digital book publication.
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The Main Course Introduction: Agriculture Business (9:03)
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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Edwards Ham, Abraham Lincoln, Heritage Radio Network, Michael Hurwitz, United States Department of Agriculture conference on sustainable farming, agriculture business, export business, giant crop yields on small amounts of territory, commodity farming, corporate chefs, Emory University,Christina Grace & Michael Hurwitz (31:11)
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Michael Hurwitz, connecting farms with buyers, community garden, urban agriculture, Urban Food Systems Program, NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, farm to factory, connecting upstate farmers with processors in the city, school food, lunch ladies, student farmers, PS 29, Sam Cass, partnering lunch ladies with restaurants, Bill Telepan, School Food Plus, Heritage Foods USA, Greenmarket, child nutrition re authorization, call your legislation!, Bon Appetit, local food, regional food, distribution, USDA, regional distribution, Michigan, Slope Farms, grass fed beef, Regional Access, Lisa Tucker, Buffalo, seasonality, prepared food, Gourmet Boutique, salads, surplus capacity, mobile food trucks, Momofuku Ssam bar, bodegas,Patrick Manning of Hudson Valley Fresh (20:34)
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Patrick Manning, Pat Manning, Ides of March, Heritage Foods USA, genetically sound agrilculture, commodity farming, Hudson Valley Fresh, local and transparant, milk, beyond organic, quality over locality, New York, food security, national security, homeland security, member supported, nonprofit, cream cheese, Monsant,First Half Wrap Up (20:25)
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distribution issues, Manhattan Borough President, hormones and milk, wholesale farmers market in the Bronx, mid sized growers, selling by the box, traditional Greenmarket is about getting the retail dollar, we have devalued the farmer in this country, farmers should make more money, New York City schools will source local beans in the fall, regional grains, http://www.cenyc.org, http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us,Digital Publishing (27:42)
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publishing industry, authors, barter system, On Demand Books, espresso book machine, downloads books, paperback original, manufacturing, Amazon, kindle, self publishing, Woodstock, Bob Wyatt, book printing, supply chain cost, inventory, handling, Robert B. Wyatt, Johnny Saunders, http://www.ondemandbooks.com, http://www.wyattbook.com/, print on demand, e-books, Coraline, Scottish terriers, Jam In The Box, Hudson Valley bookseller,Bob Wyatt and Johnny Saunders (15:02)
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Stephen King, self publishing, the internet allows you to market yourself, the truly democratic way of marketing, you don't always have to read new books, books are increasingly available, Doubleday, Random House, iPad, Kindle, lawyers, investment bankers, pop up books, graphic novels, art books, coffee table books, cookbooks, centralized printer,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/07/2009 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides talks astronomy with fellow Natural History Museum docent Mike Hamburg.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Mike Hamburg (10:33)
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Roberta's, Bushwick, The Naturalist, Mike Hamburg, The Museum Of Natural History, astronomy, planets, aliens, rocket ships, heavenly bodies, The Big Bang Theory, the birth of the universe, nickname from a competitor, Edwin Hubble, matter seemed to be moving further apart, things probably used to be closer together, at one point everything must have been in one place, singularity, 13.7 billion years, The Hubble Constant, how fast is the universe expanding, The Hubble Telescope, Hubble was an astronomer, 100 inch telescope, The Hooker Telescope, there is a speed limit to light, 3000 kilometers per second, the speed of light, light years, light minute, light second,Light & The Secrets Of The Universe (11:23)
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by the end of the 19th century astronomy was a dead science, light contained the secret to the universe, all the ingredients that make up our universe have a chemical signature, spectroscopy, the story of the universe opened up, the light of stars and galaxies, gamma rays, x rays, microwaves, light energy, wavelengths of light, different energy level, the moon reflects light, the sun, never look at the sun with you bare eyes, temperature is a good indication of an energy level, heat, atoms, light in its various components, helium, compounds and elements, the sun is a star, a star is the only object in the universe that creates its own energy, thermonuclear fusion, planets are much smaller bodies, we see planets by reflected sunlight, this month in New York we can see Jupiter, Jupiter is shining, Mars, www.astronomy.com, www.skyandtelescope.com, Astronomy Made Simple, written by Michael Hamburg, published by Doubleday, Tekserve,Technology & Space Exploration (11:41)
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we are no longer bound by Earth based observatories, there are telescopes in space above the Earths atmosphere, the atmosphere absorbs a lot of frequencies, The Spitzer Infrared Telescope, The Chandra X Ray Telescope, black holes, Mars is most like Earth, the two rovers on Mars were designed for three months and are going into their sixth year, one has gotten stuck in the sand, rovers confirmed that there is water on Mars, extra solar planets, extra solar means that planets go around stars others than the sun, we have cataloged 400 planets going around other stars, there planets resemble a hot Jupiter, The Kepler Mission, this instrument is capable of finding worlds as small as the Earth, the hope is to find a planet with life, it is very expensive to launch objects into space, dark matter, dark energy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
