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WPRB News and Culture episodes

  • The Dinky Conductor
    There's a small train, appropriately called the Dinky, that takes people from the Princeton train station to Princeton Junction. Andy Latoni talks with the woman who collects those tickets that get people from P to PJ.
    5 min
  • The EMT
    Elizabeth Shwe talks to a professional emergency medical technician (EMT). This is one heck of a day in the life.
    8 min
  • The Farmer
    Anna Hiltner talks to a local farmer about her day in the life. Here's a word to keep in mind while listening: biodynamics.
    19 min
  • The Rule of Law
    Julia has three brothers -- all older than her -- and growing up she relied on strangely formalized rules to survive. Here she is with a toy study of an improvised society.
    9 min
  • The Baby Lab
    Oliver Whang and Anna Hiltner caught up with Professor Casey Lew-Williams, one of the directors of Princeton University's Baby Lab. Casey and his fellow researchers study development in children whose ages range from a couple months to 7 years old. We talked to Casey because his work gets right to the question we've been asking for a while. Do the things that are important to us when we're young remain important as we get older?
    15 min
  • Duct Tape
    Remy Reya talks to a man who makes art out of junk. Or maybe he just sees junk for what it really is.
    14 min

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