Today on Morning Edition Extra, one western Massachusetts race for state office the GOP really needs to win, also a Hampshire College physicist conducts quantum teleportation — -it’s not quite like in Star Trek but it’s out of this world; and our commentator Rebecca Everett thinks about something closer to Planet Earth: leaving the family farm.
Red Sox Nation and the ACA roll out in CT on Morning Edition Extra
The Connecticut Mirror’s Arielle Levin Becker talks about the relatively smooth rollout of Connecticut’s new health exchange, also some anti nuclear activists in Vermont may see their job as done, while others are looking beyond the closing of VT Yankee, and even if you’re not a fan of baseball, it’s hard not to catch the Red Sox Fever — Jeff Wagenheim says this season is like a new world, and writer Bill Bryson remembers almost missing a World Series opportunity.
Morning Edition Extra: the drug Molly, Syrians living in New England, and High Fashion Sense from a High School Junior
Today, on Morning Edition Extra, a closer look at the drug known as Molly and some controversial ways of teaching college students about how to use it without harming themselves, also advice for high school students from a high school student on how to dress, and Syrians living in New England talk about their concerns back home.
(audio coming later this morning!)
Morning Edition Extra, August 23, 2013
Today on Morning Edition Extra, we hear some voices in the news this week. Then we head to the hills of Western Massachusetts for a mushroom forging expedition. And we check in with children’s author Mo Willems on learning to draw. And, with school days around the corner, commentator Jacqueline Sheehan remembers when her 4th grade classroom provided an escape from a personal tragedy.
Correction: This segment , as aired on August 23, 2013, included an incorrect last name for our commentator. Our apologies to Jacqueline Sheehan.
Morning Edition Extra, August 9, 2013
Today on Morning Edition Extra, one take on the fertility industry, Google Now in the Middle East, and a new wing at Mass MoCA.
Morning Edition Extra, August 2, 2013
On Morning Edition Extra for August 2, 2013, how public health officials see Eastern Equine Encephalitis and West Nile Virus, also, NEPR’s Summer Reading series continues with Rest Stops by Elizabeth Slade, and urban gardening taken to the extreme, successfully in Holyoke, Mass.