The engineering crew is running wires and setting up microphones in anticipation of Talk of the Nation Science Friday's live broadcast tomorrow from the Reynolds Performing Arts Center on the University of Oklahoma Campus.  The program airs from 1 - 3 p.m., but ticket holders need to be in their seats by 12:40 p.m. at the latest. Topics for the show are tornadoes, weathercasting and climate change, and wind power.

 

If you don't have a ticket, we'll have a "stand-by" line forming at 11:30 at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center. And there's now another option for the overflow crowd -- the show will be simulcast at the National Weather Center via a video link. Following the broadcast, everyone's invited to the National Weather Center for a reception, with remarks from Ira Flatow at about 4:30. Parking information is here, and a campus map can be found here.

 

Funding for this special event is from the University of Oklahoma President's Office, the OU Vice President for Research at Norman and the OU Vice President for Research at the Health Sciences Center.

 

 

NPR has received two Peabody Awards, one of journalism's most prestigious accolades -- one for Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson's coverage in Afghanistan and one to NPR.org for overall excellence. Kudos also to Diane Rehm for a Peabody Award honoring her career at WAMU and NPR. See the complete list of 2010 winners.

 

Also, a series of reports that began in May 2008, The Giant Pool of Money, a collaboration of NPR News and PRI's This American Life, has been named one of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade in the United States by New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

 

 

Intelligence Squared U.S. takes on the question, "Should the U.S. step back from its special relationship with Israel?" this Sunday, April 11 at 11 a.m.  The Oxford-style debate features panelists for and against the question, and you can always expect an informed, lively discussion of hot-button issues.

 

Check out KGOU's lineup of limited-run programs and series on our Programming and Limited Run Programs pages.

 

 

 

NPR's Audience Insight and Research group has joined the blogosphere with an inside look at the public radio listening audience, dissected and parsed as only demographers and statisticians can. Their new blog, Go Figure, is designed to connect with and learn from the NPR audience, public media professionals at local stations and elsewhere, and colleagues in research and media. If you're interested in what researchers know (or don't know) about the typical public radio listener, check it out and offer your own insight.