Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The New Ebola Plan, Eisenhower Memorial Fight, and a Really Big Squid
President Obama plans to announce a new response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa today. We discuss whether the plan goes far enough. And we talk with an emergency medical worker who’s in Liberia fighting the outbreak.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenPresident Obama plans to announce a new large-scale response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa today. We discuss the details and talk to a healthcare worker fighting the epidemic in Liberia. We also hear about the knock-down, drag-out fight that continues in the nation’s capital over Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower memorial plans for the National Mall. Plus, we take a trip down the country’s most endangered river, the San Joaquin, from the Sierra Nevadas to the San Francisco Bay. And we learn about a 770-pound colossal squid that scientists just dissected in New Zealand.
Banner Image: Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General for Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration (World Health Organization) during the press conference on the Ebola virus. 16 September 2014. Credit: UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré
In this episode
4 storiesThe New Ebola Plan
President Obama plans to announce a new response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa today. We’ll discuss whether the plan goes far enough. And we talk with an emergency medical worker who’s in Liberia fighting the outbreak. International Medical Corps video from its ebola treatment unit in Liberia
Read the story17 minThe Eisenhower Memorial Fight
A knock-down, drag-out fight continues in the nation’s capital over Frank Gehry’s planned Eisenhower memorial on the National Mall. KCRW’s Frances Anderton explains what the issues are and why Gehry may end up dropping the project, $41 million into it. Frank Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial design plan
Read the story8 minA Trip Down the San Joaquin
California’s second longest river runs 417 miles, from the Sierra Nevadas near Yosemite to the San Francisco Bay. The advocacy group American Rivers recently named it the most endangered river in the country. The threats: over engineering, over diversion and just plain old overuse.
Read the story14 minColossal (But Not Giant) Squid
Earlier this year, scientists trawling Antarctica’s remote Ross Sea hauled aboard a real life sea monster: a 770-pound colossal squid. The opportunity to examine these astonishing creatures is very rare. And it’s just not the scientists who are fascinated: something like 142,000 people from 180 countries watched the dissection live online.
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