Archive for June 1st, 2010
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New Jersey Beaches and Barnegat Bay
June 1
Hour 1
Thousands of people walked the sands along the New Jersey shore over Memorial Day weekend. After a winter packed with nor'easters and blizzards, many of the beaches needed significant replenishment to get them ready for the summer season. This hour, we’ll take a look at New Jersey’s beaches and also check-up on the health of Barnegat Bay, the New Jersey estuary that stretches from Point Pleasant to Little Egg Harbor. The Bay is suffering from massive pollution. Suburban runoff from lawn fertilizers and car exhaust is threatening species like blue crabs, hard shell clams, and eel grass. Our guests are Thomas Herrington, an associate professor of ocean engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and Michael DeLuca, senior assistant director of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences Institute at Rutgers University.
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Examining war fever with Newsweek's EVAN THOMAS
June 1
Hour 2
Why did American foreign policy move way from The West and across the oceans? "Newsweek's" Editor-at-Large and historian EVAN THOMAS looks at what was behind the manufactured Spanish-American War by profiling the motivations of the men circling around Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt: hawks newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; and war opponents Harvard Professor William James and Speaker of the House Thomas Reed. Evans takes us back to what really blew up the USS Maine, harbored in 1898 in Havana Harbor, the event that sparked the war, through the examination of how the new concept of Social Darwinism played into Anglo Saxon imperialism. Evan's new book is "The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898."
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New Jersey Beaches and Barnegat Bay June 1
Hour 1 Thousands of people walked the sands along the New Jersey shore over Memorial Day weekend. After a winter packed with nor'easters and blizzards, many of the beaches needed significant replenishment to get them ready for the summer season. This hour, we’ll take a look at New Jersey’s beaches and also check-up on the health of Barnegat Bay, the New Jersey estuary that stretches from Point Pleasant to Little Egg Harbor. The Bay is suffering from massive pollution. Suburban runoff from lawn fertilizers and car exhaust is threatening species like blue crabs, hard shell clams, and eel grass. Our guests are Thomas Herrington, an associate professor of ocean engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology and Michael DeLuca, senior assistant director of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences Institute at Rutgers University. -
Examining war fever with Newsweek's EVAN THOMAS June 1
Hour 2 Why did American foreign policy move way from The West and across the oceans? "Newsweek's" Editor-at-Large and historian EVAN THOMAS looks at what was behind the manufactured Spanish-American War by profiling the motivations of the men circling around Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt: hawks newspaper publisher William Randolf Hearst and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; and war opponents Harvard Professor William James and Speaker of the House Thomas Reed. Evans takes us back to what really blew up the USS Maine, harbored in 1898 in Havana Harbor, the event that sparked the war, through the examination of how the new concept of Social Darwinism played into Anglo Saxon imperialism. Evan's new book is "The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898."
