Idea Smackdown

Who doesn't like Sesame Street, tell me more about the celebrity guests and you have to love all the great songs. Boldness bad for science and neuroscience of navigation sounds interesting. Since a trip to Japan I am curious about stories about Japan. Lets hear about the bears. Thanks for the show.

How about doing a program on the ethics of using mice for drug experiments that are only intended to keep tax dollars flowing to scientists who are working to create freaks of nature.
We herald science as some Godly thing when its intent is anything but.
We put primates in tanks and zap them with radiation, causing them incalculable agony. I've seen their wounds with my own eyes and it is ghastly.

We use tax dollars to decode the pig genome to make better bacon, all the while, the animals are smart, social, share our DNA which is why we exploit their body parts when ours fail from eating them in the first place.

We really need a broader dialog in this nation that is being consumed by its own ideologies.

Our selective values have created a rebellious youth that doesn't even know the difference between right and wrong because the lines have been blurred.

The planet has become a graveyard for animals of the land, air and sea, and the human species, that considers itself smarter, is killing its own ecology....
NHPR/NPR might cover more positive stories, like people who ARE making a difference in a healing way. ENOUGH focus on terror( subjective and relative as it is)enough focus on glorifying the militarism and war, and enough of allowing environmentally suicidal corporations pay for ads that are myths, like Common Man being "socially responsible, or Stonyfield Farm being good for the environment.....WHAT PRETENSE

GO to any "veal" slaughterhouse and do a story on the experience of baby male calves who are forced to their untimely deaths so humans can steal THEIR mothers milk, milk that contributes to many human diseases.

I'm angered and bored by most of what I hear. The same discussions about health care, abortion, climate change, war.....Are we really that socially and spiritually retarded that we can't figure out how to elevate our own behaviors as a so called civilized species???

I saw a great bumper sticker,"An economy based on the consumption of finite resources will eventually consume itself."

So HOW are we protecting the future for children? Enhancing their brains artificially with drugs to make them what.....?