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    Sarah Amandolare

    • As neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy begin drafting plans for reconstruction, some progressive architects and urban planners are arguing that the emerging science of biomimicry offers a way forward. The notion is that the next generation of waterfront designs could draw inspiration from the intricate ways that plants and animals have adapted to their situations [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Natural Approach to Storm Prep   4 months, 2 weeks ago · View

    • ThumbnailThe State University of New York at New Paltz solar car team plans to race across the country this summer in the solar car challenge. In April, a group of students worked on the car frame on campus. Adviser Lee Cabe stopped by and then showed off his solar car workshop on the Hudson River. [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: SUNY students building solar car   12 months ago · View

    • Overall Impressions The show didn’t feel an hour long. It moved seamlessly from one story to the next, thanks to techniques like musical interludes, host comments, reporter comments and great use of silence and pauses in conversation. You could feel the interviewees thinking; the reporters weren’t rushing them through what they had to say. The sequence of [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: On ‘24 Hours at the Golden Apple’   1 year ago · View

    • Geeks in Niagara Falls aren’t usually mentioned in the same breath as “startup,” but these geeks are worthy: they invented a way to convert plastic into oil. With their nasal voices and use of colloquials like “that’s what they pay the big bucks for,” the guys at JBI were compelling. The story used simple ambient [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Listening exercise: Niagara Falls startup on NPR   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailUnemployment benefits are being extended through 2012, but not every jobless American is cashing in. Kenny Spraton is 45 and homeless in New York City. He hasn’t had a job in seven years, and he doesn’t feel hopeful. Sean Flynn spoke with Kenny about his experience.

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Reader: Unemployed but not benefitting   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailErin Barker is small and soft spoken, but on stage, she commands attention. Barker is a copy editor by day and storyteller by night.  She helped create Story Collider, a science-themed live storytelling series, and she’s a grand slam champion of storytelling series The Moth. Erin likes telling stories about her childhood because more people can [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Interview with storyteller Erin Barker   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailMany elderly pet owners can’t muster the energy to care for their animals. In New York City, an organization called the Jewish Association Serving the Aged (JASA) finds volunteers to help out. Murray Strelitz has been a JASA volunteer for about seven years. A senior himself at 75, he moves slowly but is quick-witted. “I forgot [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Sound Portrait: the dog walker   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailIn New York, hipster butchers get all the glory, but neighborhood grocery stores still employ hardworking, highly skilled butchers. They can tell you which cut of beef is the leanest, explain how easy it is to prepare a pork chop and detail the differences between sustainable and conventional farming. I asked my local butcher how to [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Process: Breaking down a chicken   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailPoliticians say stupid, careless things. Sometimes they even do stupid, careless things. With the 2012 elections approaching, I wondered if other New Yorkers were feeling skeptical or hopeful about the intentions of US presidential candidates. Here’s the story from Bryant Park.

       

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Vox-Pop: True intentions of US presidential candidates   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    • On NPR’s Science Friday , host Ira Flatow interviewed Robert Lustig, a professor of pediatrics at UC San Francisco. The topic was sugar, and whether it should be regulated like alcohol. Although there were interesting takeaways from the interview — for example, the reward area in the brain for sugar is the same as for heroin or [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Aggressive vs. Aimless Interviews   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • The BBC News Hour had just one host, a somewhat aggressive, spunky voice that lorded over the three main stories of the hour. For example, when questioning Jon Hunstman on the new Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the host pushed Huntsman to give his opinion on the U.S. presidential race, despite it not having much to [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: News Radio Comparison for Feb. 14   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • A man lights up a cigarette and takes a puff as the wind blows up the tail end of a woman’s scarf. She’s breezing past him, in a hurry, like most people here. This is Times Square on a Thursday night in February. Despite the cold, there are enough bodies, fluorescent lights and car fumes [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Zombie Surprise   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) broadcasts weather updates and information from National Weather Service offices across the U.S. I chose this broadcast because it keeps listeners abreast of weather warnings, watches, forecasts and potential hazards around the clock, throughout the week. The broadcast covers extreme weather and public safety issues, like 911 telephone outages and [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    • Pigeons aren’t the only birds in New York. With his project, New York Pelagic, Brooklyn artist George Boorujy is putting his original drawings of local seabirds into glass bottles and launching them into New York City waterways. The bottles also contain a questionnaire designed to offer insight into city residents’ water usage. In the past six [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Saving New York Seabirds, Bottle by Bottle   1 year, 5 months ago · View

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: In NYC Waterways, Conservation Messages in Bottles   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    • The economic downturn has led to a dramatic altering of the New York City gallery scene over the past few years. Wealthy art collectors have cut back on purchases, landlords have sold buildings housing small galleries , and private institutions have pulled back their arts funding. At least 24 Manhattan galleries shuttered between 2007 and 2009, according to MSNBC. [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Despite Downturn, Brooklyn Art Gallery Stays Afloat   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    • Lynn Fleming has been farming all her life, and selling her goat cheese at New York City greenmarkets for several years. But the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene made her reconsider her profession. Her small goat farm, Lynnhaven, in Pine Bush, NY , was already struggling because of high feed prices before it was hit hard by [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Upstate Goat Farmer Still Struggling from Effects of Hurricane Irene   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    • ThumbnailDemonstrators in Zuccotti Park on Friday had an overarching message for detractors: their diversity only makes them stronger. “That’s the beauty of it. It’s democracy and everyone has a voice. I want to see that,” said Taha Hammam, a 34-year-old, suit-clad Wall Street landlord. “I only wear suits for weddings, work and these people,” he said, [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators Dispute Claims Their Message is Fragmented   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    • More New Yorkers are learning to surf, thanks in part to the Quiksilver Pro, an international surfing competition held in Long Beach in September. Brothers Bo and Laz Smith rode the train from their home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Long Beach for a surfing lesson with Skudin Surf on October 15, [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: Surfing in New York? Even Upper East Side Kids Can Learn   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    • In New York, most people are ambitious, driven and even ruthless when it comes to their career. What would it take for you to ruthlessly pursue a job? Would it have to offer total flexibility? Lots of vacation time and great health benefits? Or, is there something less concrete that you’re searching for, like a [...]

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      Sarah Amandolare wrote a new blog post: What Are You Looking For in a Job?   1 year, 7 months ago · View

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