For Show #51 (July 26, 2007): Shipboard Water Conservation: In the wake of RWSA’s invocation of Drought Alert for the community, lessons about water conservation might be learned from those who go to sea in sailing ships.
“The Rivanna Rambler†airs weekly from 11:55am-noon on WTJU 91.1 and is produced and recorded by Leslie Middleton.
Are you happy? Well don’t try to be happier; you might become less happy. That is the essence of a multi-cultural study published this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The study was produced by University of Virginia psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi and his co-authors Ed Diener, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and The Gallup Organization, Dong-Won Choi of California State University, East Bay, Chu Kim-Prieto of the College of New Jersey, and Incheol Choi of Seoul National University. Professor Oishi and his colleagues found that, on average, European-Americans claim to be happy in general, more happy than Asian-Americans or Koreans or Japanese. But it is much easier for them to become less happy by negative events. And they tend to recover at a slower rate from negative events than their counterparts in Asia or with an Asian ancestry. On the other hand, Koreans, Japanese, and to a lesser extent, Asian-Americans, are less happy in general, but recover their emotional equilibrium more readily after a setback than European-Americans.
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Dr. Martin Katz is a physician with the Charlottesville branch of the Athletic Coast Athletic Club. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about what a doctor is doing at the local gym. Originally from South Africa and hired about three months ago, Katz helps ACAC members learn more about how how exercise can be used as medicine. For instance, exercise helps keep the immune system strong, allowing the human body to fight off disease and cancer.
“If you don’t take care of your body, you’re really aging your body with respect to cardiovascular health,” Katz said.
If you’re interested to hear podcasts about ACAC, we’ve added a new category with previous interviews and features.
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Brian Wheeler joins Coy Barefoot each Tuesday to talk about growth and development issues in the area surrounding Charlottesville. This week the topics of conversation include the Eastern Connector, why secondary road projects like Georgetown Road improvements take so long, a “sobering update” on the drought, the latest on the proposed Regional Transportation Authority, expansion at the University of Virginia’s Fontaine Research Park, and the amount of recent commercial development in the region.
The public will get two chances to weigh in on three potential routes for the Eastern Connector. The first will be tonight at 7:00 PM (11/28/07) at Baker-Butler Elementary and the second will be on Thursday (11/29/07) in the Albemarle County Office Building.
This week on the Wake-Up Call, two local car mechanics visited the studio to talk with callers about car problems in an hour long “Automobile Discussion.” Steve Bullock and WNRN’s own Rusty Cempre answer questions about prepping your car for the winter season, what to check when buying a used car, and provide other useful information about your car. When should you take your car to a dealership versus an independent mechanic? What types of types of tires are best for your car? Find out the answers to these questions and more, only on the Wake-Up Call.
Host Rick Moore opened the show with a call to Jeanne McCuscker, who runs Home Instead Senior Care, which sponsors the Be a Santa to a Senior charity program.
In this special edition of the BusinessCast, Ken is joined by first-year student Alex Duncan. Alex is the author of a video blog on the Fox Business web site, “MBA Embed: An Insider’s Look at Pursuing an MBA”.
Are our community’s schools infested with pesticides that are harming our children? Jackie Lombardo thinks so. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”to talk about her case. In 2005, she formed Friends and Advocates for Children, Teachers, and Schools to help push Albemarle County schools away from moving away from using chemicals to kill unwanted insects and rodents. Read about her group’s successful efforts in the Daily Progress and the Hook.
How did you react the last time you had a fight with that significant someone in your life? With couples, the woman might apologize, or the man might make a joke or express understanding. By doing this, they subtly and briefly lighten the tension as they work their way through a disagreement.
Psychology professor James Coan discovered a long time ago that by doing this, even when couples fight, they take care of each other. This interplay was significant when Coan designed a study exploring what happens in people’s brains when they behave emotionally or observe other people’s emotions. Coan said, “what we are learning is our emotions are more heavily involved in our day-to-day physical health than we previously thought. How we deal with our relationships is closely tied to how long we live, how frequently we go to the doctor, how rapidly we recover from injury, how happy we tend to be in our lives.”Â
For more or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.
A chance — but silent — encounter between two hikers along the South Fork Moorman’s River results in some special realizations.
I cannot hear the stream below me on the left as I ascend the fire road along the South Fork of the Moorman’s River above Sugar Hollow Reservoir. The only sound I hear is the rush of wind funneling briskly down its own course of this steep valley in the Rivanna headwaters.
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“The Rivanna Rambler†airs weekly from 11:55 am-noon on WTJU 91.1 and is produced and recorded by Leslie Middleton. This episode (#66) originally aired on November 22, 2007.
