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All Sides with Ann Fisher is a two-hour, daily public-affairs talk show designed to – over time – touch upon all sides of the issues and events that shape life in central Ohio. Listeners participate via telephone, e-mail, Twitter and text messaging, to add to the conversations. As always at WOSU, the coverage is fair and balanced with a civil tone.
Topics are driven by the top news stories of the day – local, regional, national and international -- and the trends in what we read and what we like to eat, where we worship and play, and more. Local issues and news-related topics tend to dominate the first hour with larger issues and authors saved for the second.
MONDAY 8/30
10:00 AM - Regina Barreca We’ll explore the humor and wisdom in women’s lives, with author and University of Connecticut English Professor Regina Barreca.
"To see the way wit functions for all of us--men and women alike--is to see a map of our culture: to focus on things we've seen but not necessarily processed or analyzed; explaining what we've sensed but not yet bothered to define." - Gina Barreca, 'Who's Laughing Now?'
11:00 AM - Everyday Ethics Ethics in everyday life, with “The Right Thing” columnist and Emerson College Professor Jeffrey Seglin.
10:00 AM - Debating Stem Cell Research Two points of view about a recent ruling by a federal judge halting federal funding of stem cell research; first, the impact of the ruling on biomedical research and experimental therapies for disease and medical disorders, with Diabetes Research Institute Scientific Director Dr. Camillo Ricordi, M.D. and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute Stem Cell Research center Director Dr. Evan Snyder (35 min.). Then, ethical objections to embryonic stem cell research, with Christian Medical Association CEO Dr. David Stevens, M.D. and Nightlight Christian Adoptions Executive Director Ron Stoddart.
Founded in 1976 as the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute seeks to understand the underlying biological mechanisms that generate good health or, when they go awry, cause disease. The Institute employs nearly 900 scientists who dedicate their careers to answering these fundamental biological questions.
University of Miami Diabetes Research Institute Q: If stem cells are immortal, why do we need more cell lines? A: While it is true that ES cells are immortal, there are several reasons why scientists believe that research should not be restricted to the cell lines originally approved in 2001 for federal funding.
Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) adoption agency, licensed by the states of California and South Carolina to provide adoption services, and are Hague Accredited through COA. Nightlight provides domestic, international, and embryo adoption services to families in all 50 states. In addition, we provide free counseling and support to women who are facing an unplanned pregnancy.
CMDA advances the following moral guidelines to direct stem cell research and therapy: - No human life should be produced by any means for primarily utilitarian purposes – no matter how noble the ends or widespread the benefit. - Technology and research must not involve the abuse or destruction of human life. - We encourage the careful and ethical development of alternative methods for procuring stem cells that do not involve the destruction of human life.
11:00 AM - Palliative Care and Hospice New medical research about palliative care and hospice care helping patients with serious illness improve quality of life and extending life, including the perspective of a hospice patient, with American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine President Dr. Sean Morrison, M.D., Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship Director Dr. Vicki Jackson, M.D., author/blogger Phyllis Greene, and her daughter, author/blogger D.G. Fulford.
Massachusetts General Hospital Palliative Care: "Our clinicians employ all available treatments to alleviate patients’ suffering and improve quality of life at any phase of an illness, including during treatment. In this way the Palliative Care Service is unlike hospice, which focuses on home care and ceases life-prolonging aid for patients expected to live six or fewer months."
Designated Daughter: On Being a (Hospice) D.G. Fluford "My own mother (Phyllis Greene), in her own words: 'I am in Hospice Care, at home, in my own bed and it is weird, unreal, surreal, but REAL. I finally know that the root of my evil is a failing heart with its fibrillations and pacemakers and old valves. They, or it, has a right. It's 90 years old, for heaven sakes.'"
Letting Go What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? The New Yorker. Atul Gawande. August 2, 2010.
WEDNESDAY 9/1
10:00 AM - Peace and Policy The peace process in Northern Ireland and U.S. policy in Afghanistan, with Ohio Wesleyan International Relations Professor and OSU Mershon Center for International Security Studies Associate Sean Kay.
Irish nationalist militias step up attacks, recruitment - Washington Times Tough times are hitting promising initiatives like Links — and causing unease about the very fate of Northern Ireland's peace deal. As the troubled territory slogs through the worst economic downturn in decades, dissident Irish nationalist militias are getting increasingly restless — carrying out a string of violent acts including a recent bombing that injured three children.
West faces a losing battle for Afghan "human terrain" - Reuters As the conflict in Afghanistan deepens, with more foreign troops fighting and casualty tolls rising against a bolder Taliban-led enemy, a parallel battle is being fought to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. Despite vast, sophisticated resources at their disposal, it is a battle some analysts fear NATO and U.S. forces can't win.
11:00 AM - Employment Through Social Media In today’s tough economy, we’ll hear how to use social media to showcase your talents to potential employers and find a job, with University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Communications Director Sherrie Madia.
According to social media professor and strategist Sherrie Madia, the smart job hunter today is learning how to not only manage her online reputation, but use social networking proactively, as a competitive tool to boost her personal brand, get to know key people in great companies, and create buzz that improves her visibility and desirability for employers.
Madia is author of The Online Job Search Survival Guide, the book of books for job seekers in today's super competitive employment market, which offers tactics, tools, and tips to give you an edge, using everything from search-engine strategies, to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, social networks, blogs, podcasts, and video to leapfrog the competition and land yourself a job.
THURSDAY 9/2
10:00 AM - Risks of Youth Sports Sports injuries, including increased risk of concussions, for young athletes and potential physical and emotional costs of young athletes pushed beyond their limits, with Thomas Worthington High School Varsity Football Coach/Dean of Students Scott Gordon, Ohio Wesleyan Athletics Director Roger Ingles, Jersey Shore University Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Physician Dr. Lisa Bakhos, M.D., and Nationwide Children’s Hospital Sports Medicine Medical Director Dr. Thomas Pommering, DO,
11:00 AM - Temple Grandin/ Autism On Sunday night HBO won five Emmys for “Temple Grandin”: the biographical movie about the renowned author/agricultural scientist who has autism. We’ll hear from the Executive Producer Emily Gerson Saines about her ten year effort to bring Temple’s story to the screen; Temple’s mother Eustacia Cutler, who believed in her daughter’s potential in the 1950s and 60s when autism was misdiagnosed and autistic children were often sent to institution; and Temple Grandin, herself.
10:00 AM - Why We Get Lost Psychologist Colin Ellard asks why humans, the species capable of navigational feats like a trip to the moon,get lost more easily and more frequently than any other animal.
Colin Ellard - "Although I’ve studied the psychology and biology of space for many years, it wasn’t until more recently that I realized how fully our everyday lives are permeated by the problems of space -- understanding our place, finding our way, seeing the spatial connections between the places we know well and the those we only read about in books or see in the news."
11:00 AM - All Sides weekend All Sides Weekend with WOSU Classical Music Host Christopher Purdy. We’ll discuss arts and culture in Central Ohio, with Greater Columbus Arts Council Interim President Milt Baughman, Columbus Dance Theatre Artistic Director Tim Veach, and Shadowbox Executive Producer/CEO Steve Guyer.
All Sides is a forum for civil conversation. We ask that our callers follow certain guidelines while participating:
Callers are welcome to call in every other week. For example, you call and get on the air on Thursday, skip the next week, and you are allowed to call the following week on Monday (or any other day that week).
We appreciate thoughtful, courteous, and civil contributions to the conversation. Our callers respect the opinions of others and engage in meaningful dialogue.
Think about what you want to say before you dial. Please be brief and express your thoughts clearly with the call screener. The same goes for email messages; the more concise the better.
Don't use a speakerphone-the sound quality is inadequate for the radio. Don't call from a cell phone WHILE DRIVING-it's dangerous for you and other motorists.
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Our callers are an integral part of All Sides. The show relies on a steady flow of engaged and thoughtful listeners to keep the program moving. By following these guidelines we'll be sure to hear you on the radio!
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