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Socrates Exchange: Can War Ever Be Just?By Laura Knoy on Monday, December 29, 2008.Each month The Socrates Exchange explores a different philosophical question, on the air and on the web. This month: Can war ever be just? Join the conversation online and on-air. Guest
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Trees Can Take ItBy Rosemary Conroy on Friday, November 28, 2008.Unlike animals, which can move away from bad weather, trees have to stick around for whatever weather comes their way. Fortunately, they have plenty of strategies to deal with harsh weather. listen:
  Lawmakers Sign Off On Governor's Spending CutsBy Josh Rogers on Friday, November 21, 2008.The cuts are Lynch’s latest move to close a budget gap in the wake of a $250 million shortfall in state revenue. listen:
Here's What's Awesome: Musical Pilgrimages, Frustration-Free PackagesBy Brady Carlson on Friday, November 21, 2008.
Despite the downturn in other areas of the market, awesome link futures remain high, as investors try to shed themselves of declining non-awesome links. Meanwhile, rubber hardened and string remained confident. Here are today's top gainers on the Here's What's Awesome link index: No one I think is in my tree (click for driving directions to the tree) Writers on a New England Stage: Anita ShreveBy Laura Knoy on Friday, November 21, 2008.Massachusetts-born writer Anita Shreve is the author of 14 books, including The Pilot’s Wife, chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection, and The Weight of Water, a murder mystery set on the Isles of Shoals. Her latest offering, Testimony, opens the door to a sex scandal at a New England boarding school that starts with a video tape and ripples out into an entire community. This week Anita Shreve traveled to The Music Hall in Portsmouth to be a part of our Writers on a New England Stage series. She spoke before a live audience on her new book and then was joined by NHPR's Laura Knoy. Today we bring you that performance. listen:
Evergreen FarmsBy Rosemary Conroy on Friday, November 21, 2008.There are numerous benefits to the environment and the neighborhood of a local Christmas Tree farm. listen:
Budget Complications Go Beyond The NumbersBy Josh Rogers on Thursday, November 20, 2008.As Donald Rumsfeld once remarked, “you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have.” While he was talking about Iraq, the former defense secretary’s observation also applies to budget season in Concord. listen:
Awake, My Soul: The Music of Sacred HarpBy Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.
Sacred harp practitioners, whose grandparents and great-grandparents sang on worn church pews, are documented in the film Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp. A new, two-CD set draws music from the film, along with interpretations by contemporary musicians, giving us a fine reason to revisit the film, co-directed by Erica Hinton and Matt Hinton. Matt Hinton joins us from Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta to explore one of the country’s earliest indigenous musical traditions. Watch the trailer for Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp: (Photo by squashpicker) listen:
Candid Camera For HireBy Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.We don’t often get into celebrity gossip magazines on this show. But indulge me for a minute. There’s a certain allure to flipping through glossy tabloids to see celebrities walking their dogs, swimming at the beach or buying groceries, under the headline "Celebrities: They’re Just Like Us" - so we could be just like them. The difference is that we don’t have people with cameras stalking us all day.
If you wish you could have your most intimate family moments captured by strangers, fear not. All it takes is a little cash. Izaz Rony is a 23-year-old who runs the New York-based photo service MethodIzaz. For $500 an hour and up, he’ll follow you around and take candid pictures of you. There are paparazzi-for-hire services like Celeb4ADay, that provide a publicist and limo and bodyguard along with shouting photographers, for people to live out their fantasies of being like Brangelina or Paris. But what Izaz does is a little different. He joins us from New York to tell us more about his innovative business. (Photo courtesy of MethodIzaz) listen:
Reclaim Your Online PrivacyBy Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.
Whenever we sign up for a new email account or for free access to a Website, we gladly hand over our biographical data without thinking much about it. But on the other hand, we still maintain these expectations of privacy. We don’t like the thought of Internet lurkers spying on us, and we certainly don’t want to find ourselves victims of identity theft. Journalist Eric Griffith of PC Magazine joins us with some tips on how to keep our data safe in an increasingly public realm. Click here for his article on online privacy. (Photo by Mikey G Ottawa) listen:
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Shape-note singing may be fading, but can still be heard inside of the white churches of the American South. The style, also called sacred harp singing after an influential songbook published more than 100 years ago, has elements that stretch back at least to Elizabethan England, maybe even to Medieval chants. It flourished in colonial New England and in its present form took deep root in the rural South, where it is still sung today in four-part harmony in full, loud voices.
Last month on Live with Regis and Kelly, Victoria Beckham talked about how some of her best family photos come from the paparazzi. She said, “you never have to take a camera because somebody is always going to capture that moment... and they often retouch [the photographs]!" 
More and more, we seem to be willing to bare it all on the Internet. More than 120 million Facebook users upload photos and all kinds of personal information about themselves every day.