Word of Mouth

with Virginia Prescott

Monday through Thursday at noon and 9:00 P.M.

Word of Mouth is the sound of new ideas - conversations, stories and shared experiences that sort passing fads from lasting trends. We uncover what's new, what's next and what will affect our lives and our world.

 

Each week, Word of Mouth will air a PolitiFact ruling report. Email Word of Mouth to suggest a statement for fact-checking.

 

 

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November 19, 2011

Word of Mouth show for November 19.

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Charles Wheelan provides some unorthodox, albeit insightful nuggets of advice for graduating college seniors in his new book 10 ½ Things no Commencement Speaker has Ever Said

Was it Joseph Stalin with the cyanide capsule in the hospital? Or a stroke brought on by a family history riddled with early deaths and chronic health problems?

Writer Jack Hitt author of A Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character discusses how the search for talent and ingenuity has always been part of the American identity.

The “morgue” goes viral, millions of photos and story clippings dating back to the 1800’s, belonging to The New York Times archive (also known as the morgue) finds a new home on Tumblr.

Scholar Michael Adams explores invented languages in his book From Elvish to Klingon.

As one of the nation's top experts on U.S. Senate office decor, no one is more pleased than me that New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte decided to...
I learned a little trivia while watching the film Answer This in preparation for today's interview with writer and director Chris Farah. For...
Today's story on resurrected proteins developed by Australian scientists to fight superbugs pointed to the wallaby as the source for their idea...
Thanks, @JohnSellers, for blowing my mind. While responding to his Twitter confession of his former Wham! love with my own (somewhat current) Wham...

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