Hello, and welcome to Future Tense, I'm Antony Funnell. Today's theme is about the power of the personal brand and its complications. [Audio: Pogba and Stormzy video] This is a recent viral video featuring Paul Pogba. Don't worry if you don't recogni...
So its a weekday morning early in April of 2007 and Im staring into my mothers cupboard, a spectacularly cluttered cupboard. Having just moved the folks into an old age home the week before, its now my responsibility to clean up the house that they h...
So I was definitely quite a loner but I did look up to some people in my life and while a lot of teens had modern like pop stars or actresses and actors they looked up to which I totally respected and I have some too, who I looked up to is a little d...
The language I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language, for better or for worse. Let's face it, it's the language of the internet, it's the language of finance, it's the language of air traffic control, of popula...
Hello. My name is Birke Baehr, and Im 11 years old. I came here today to talk about whats wrong with our food system. First of all, I would like to say that Im really amazed at how easily kids are led to believe all the marketing and advertising on T...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Many young scientists are having a difficult time getting their careers going, and the reason is often funding - a lack of it. The National Institutes of Health agrees this is a problem, so it established the New Innovator Award....
Hi, it's the All in the Mind podcast, I'm Lynne Malcolm. Today we go to Ireland to hear one man's story of living with bipolar disorder. Ian is in his mid-fifties, and despite his illness he has an enviable, almost idyllic life with his wife and thre...
Hello, it's All in the Mind on RN, I'm Lynne Malcolm. Today, are we hooked on social media? And does it matter? (SONG) Olivia Willis: How often do you use social media? Vox pop: Probably about three times a day I'll just check in to Facebook, see wha...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Beach Boys were all California - beach, waves and a sunny, blue sky. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, WOULDN'T IT BE NICE) THE BEACH BOYS: (Singing) Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? Then we wouldn't have to wait so long. SIMON: But Bri...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There are enormous implications in a report this week from a team of Hungarian scientists who say that dogs can understand words, not just the tone in which we may tell them, oh, good boy, good little girl. Scientists at Eotvos Lor...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: How do you write a memoir if you don't trust your memory? That's a question at the heart of Mark Slouka's new memoir Nobody's Son. It covers his childhood in Pennsylvania, also the lives of his Czech parents who lived through...
My goodness! You guys are fired up! Well, let me just say hello everyone. I am so thrilled to be here with you all today in New Hampshire. This is like home to me, and this day thank you for a beautiful fall day. You just ordered this day up for me,...
When I opened Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, my goal was simple: open a school to close a prison. Now to some, this was an audacious goal, because our school is located in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn -- one of the most underserved and vio...
Lynne Malcolm: Hello, you're with All in the Mind on RN, I'm Lynne Malcolm. Today a candid and moving conversation with autism activist John Elder Robison about his life as the weird guy who's into machinery. John Elder Robison: I could stand back th...
I am failing as a woman, I am failing as a feminist. I have passionate opinions about gender equality, but I worry that to freely accept the label of feminist, would not be fair to good feminists. I'm a feminist, but I'm a rather bad one. Oh, so I ca...
