Chile Celebrates, World Watches As Miners Are Lifted To Freedom

In this screen grab taken from video, miner Edison Pena waves after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine. (AP)

Rescue crews continue to pull those trapped miners from the earth at the San Jose mine in Chile. Family members are greeting the miners with cheers as they emerge from the rescue capsule. The miners have survived more time trapped underground than anyone on record, and the world was captivated by their endurance and unity as officials carefully planned their rescue. The BBC brings us the story from the scene.

WBUR.org: Live video of the Chilean mine rescue

Taking Temperature Of The Tea Party

"Boiling Mad" by Kate Zernike Tonight, Republican candidate for Senate from Delaware Christine O’Donnell gets another chance to make an impression, in a televised debate with Democrat Chris Coons. O’Donnell has been called the poster woman for the Tea Party, which has been roiling politics for the past two years. Some call the Tea Party an authentic popular movement, but some label it “astroturf” — a fake grassroots movement managed by conservative groups like Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks. Kate Zernike is national correspondent for the New York Times, and author of “Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America,” which chronicles the rise of the Tea Party.

Book excerpt: “Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America”

Researcher Finds Half-Heard Conversations Are Twice As Annoying

We know overhearing a cell phone conversation is grating, but there’s a possible cognitive answer as to why. A study in Psychological Science looks how halfalogue, half heard conversation, makes our brains work overtime to fill in the blanks. We talk to lead author of the study, Lauren Emberson, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Cornell University.

After 50 Years, Jane Goodall Still Making Discoveries

Jane Goodall gives a little kiss to Tess, a female chimpanzee at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary north of Nairobi on Dec. 6, 1997. (AP)

Biologist Jane Goodall is marking the 50th anniversary of her work observing the chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania. After decades of study, the revelations about the chimps at Gombe keep coming, including the news that an AIDS-like disease may be killing them. Science writer David Quammen celebrates Jane Goodall in the new issue of National Geographic and joins us to talk about her importance.

National Geographic: Being Jane Goodall

Composer Eric Whitacre Creates Choirs In Cyberspace

Eric Whitacre’s choir compositions have drawn huge crowds and sold records around the world, his latest release “Light and Gold” comes out next week. He’s also gone online: around the world, aspiring choir members record their parts of one of his works, upload the videos on to YouTube and they are mixed into a Virtual Choir. He’s asking people to join him in his effort to create the world’s largest online choir ever.

Add your voice to Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir

Music From The Show

The Essex Green, “The Sixties”

Lady Gaga/Beyonce, “Telephone”

Jeff Beck, “Line Dancing With Monkeys”

Mary Ann Nickles

The reason I find myself distracted by half a cellphone conversation is that at first I think they are talking to me. Once I answered a person who was in the restroom stall next to me three times before I decided she wasn’t talking to me.

Then I am just annoyed that the speaker is talking more loudly than necessary.
Joe

After listening to the Kate Zernike interview…A very superficial understanding of “tea party”, whatever that means. It’s a nice neat label that can cover a lot of people who don’t agree with you, and makes up for a lack of real understanding betweeen people. We have too much knee jerk classifying of people in todays world. Liberals, conservatives, tea party, socialists, on and on. This is one thing instant communication has given us…instant prejudice.
And if you are against “Tea Party”. please just say so, be honest. You don’t think the listening public can smell bias and deceit? Really?
Brian Pyko

I loved your conversation about distracted while listening to somebody on a cell phone. Those of us that have worked in cubicles all our lives know how annoying this can be. Not just cell phones but somebody sitting next to you and you only here 1 side of the conversation. This is even more annoying when you know what the person is talking about and you might be able to help but they are talking to somebody else.
This is not new because of cell phones.
Keep up the great work.
http://hereandnow.org Linda Chase

While listening to your discussion about the book Boiling Mad about the Tea Party movement- you mentioned ” If only the Democrats had gotten to them first” Let’s not forget that the Democratic Party does not have access to full time TV Fox network that supports the Republican and Tea Party cause and whips up those who are disenfranchised and unhappy with their political world.
Who can compete against that?
Frog

Yeah, I had to chuckle. “If the Democrats had gotten to them first…” It sounds like these Tea Party people are very weak minded and easily swayed. Emotional not intellectual. They don’t listen to facts. Most of them haven’t reallly thought about the things they are espousing ….and the ones that have…are really hypocrites. Wow…and I thought it had something to do with 9.5% unemployment and 1.4 trillion dollar deficit.
Bob Connelly

A question I have regarding the Tea-Party supporters is partially asked when one asks is their anger due to having an African-Amercian President but no one ever asks the rest of the question “and an African-American leader of the Republican Party?” I think that everywhere they look they see their world changing and they do not like it at all.