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Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and hosted by Jean Feraca, "Here on Earth" is a live cultural affairs call-in talk show that introduces extraordinary people from across the world whose stories instill passion and connect deeply with listeners each week. The show airs live at 3-5pm Eastern time on Saturdays and Sundays with live stream audio on hereonearth.org. Primary Format : Public Radio Language : English Also Listed as: City : Madison State/Province : WI Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts Methings.com listings of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Arab Bodies The German poet Novalis once wrote that the only real temple in this world is the human body. If that is true, Joumana Haddad, who just launched Jasad magazine in Beirut (Jasad means Body in Arabic), is doing her best to restore the body to its rightful place, and raising a lot of eyebrows in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poker: An American Metaphor Playing poker was a key networking tool in Barack Obama's early political career. Bill Gates collected many of his business strategies and a sizable fund to start Microsoft from his all-night poker games. Eisenhower and JFK used poker tactics to resolve crises with China and the Soviet Union. How did a French aristocratic parlor game turn into a training ground for American risk-takers and power brokers? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Muslim Next Door Although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear explanation of Islam or its people. Jean Feraca talks to a scholar of Islamic law about growing up in California and balancing her South Asian, Muslim, and American identities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Again: Asia's Rise Don't believe the hype you hear about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. Minxin Pei, director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, joins us to pick apart this familiar narrative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gourmet Today Exciting new ingredients are available everywhere, expanding our culinary horizons, and a new culinary world calls for a new cookbook. Ruth Reichl, long-time editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and a best-selling author in her own right, joins us to talk about her new book, Gourmet Today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Language of Body Music Keith Terry is a body musician, someone who makes music purely with their body. His obsession runs so deep that last year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first to go to a body musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best International Reporting Words Without Borders devotes its October issue to International Reporting. From the killing fields of Cambodia to the swarming streets of Tehran, on the ground and in the trenches, these writers document the news of the world with artful urgency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Faith Harvard scholar Harvey Cox broke new ground when he published his international bestseller The Secular City in 1965. Now, on the eve of his retirement, he has come out with a new book, The Future of Faith, in which he analyzes why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community. William Kamkwamba shares his remarkable story of growing up in Malawi, Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chickens in the City: A Backyard Revolution The return of the chicken to American backyards is now no longer an uncertainty. Since the chicken disappeared from urban American settlements half a century ago, city dwellers all over the nation are now re-discovering the advantages and challenges of keeping their own flock in their backyards. What is it about the chicken that makes it the urban bird of the moment? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Create a Sustainable Future Bill McKibbon and Tim Flannery are two of the world's most renowned conservationists. They are both urging a forceful call to action to end climate change and create a sustainable future. They team up to take us on a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and the best new ideas to help solve the crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel is Real The world watches as hopes are raised for a restart to talks in the Israel/Palestinian conflict. What age-old mindsets need to shift before a peaceful resolution can be found? Rich Cohen joins us to discuss his new book on the history of the Jewish people, Israel is Real. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Wallis: New Interfaith Visions Muslims and Christians together comprise over half of the world's population. A group of Muslim scholars and clerics recently sent an open letter to Christians around the world proposing a search for common ground to which a group of scholars at Yale's Divinity School responded. Jim Wallis joins us to talk about this historic encounter and how we can move beyond a polite ecumenical dialogue to make peace between Christians and Muslims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mercedes Sosa: A Voice for Social Justice It is hard to overestimate the influence of Mercedes Sosa's music and voice in South America. In a career that spanned over six decades and produced 40 albums, the Argentine folk singer, who died on October 4th, united an entire continent in her ongoing struggle for human rights, peace, and social justice in South America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie and Julia Julie and Julia, the new movie that stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child, got its start when Julie Crowell, a frustrated writer working as a claims agent decided to beef up her life by keeping a blog about her attempts to cook all the recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. What's she cooking now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Metropolis When you imagine a green future do you picture backwoods country living or futuristic city dwelling? While green usually brings to mind more natural surroundings, David Owen, author and staff writer for The New Yorker, wants to argue the opposite: it is cities that teach us what a sustainable future looks like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunni/Shia Conflict Does the Sunni/Shia conflict contribute to the image of Islam as a violent religion? How much does it account for the violence in Iraq? We will look into the origins of the Sunni/Shia split, consider the bombing of the Shia shrine in Karbala, and talk with a Muslim scholar working on promoting intrafaith harmony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happiness 2050 Can meditation make us into world citizens? Richard Davidson thinks so. His findings on the increasing plasticity of the brain combined with long term effects of meditation have led to an intriguing projection: Happiness 2050: Neuroscience, Education, and the Compassionate World Citizen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conservation Refugees Columbus Day: If you have been following Ken Burns' PBS series on our National Parks, here is an interesting contrarian point of view: Mark Dowie is an investigative journalist who reports on the hundred year conflict between global conservation and native peoples in his book, Conservation Refugees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple Time Every year, Wisconsin's Bayfield Apple Festival heralds the beginning of fall. This Food Friday we will speak to some local and some non-local apple growers about heritage varieties, cider-making, and this year's pick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website