HeyJaredSamantha Balaban
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Meet 'The Weather Keeper' who lives in a lighthouse at the edge of the world (opens the original)
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In 2021, The New York Times published an article titled "Monitoring the Weather at the Edge of the World." It was about a farmer named Marsibil Erlendsdottir, who was running one of 71 manned weather stations in Iceland. Her job, the article said, was to check the readings on the weather instruments at her station every three hours day and night, no matter the weather, and record the information and send it to the office in Reykjavik, the capital. When Nelly Buchet's mother sent the article to h
Samantha Balaban (opens the original)
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Samantha Balaban is a Senior Producer at Weekend Edition. Most days, you can find her under a pile of books and mail coordinating the show's book coverage. She's also responsible for Picture This, a series of conversations with authors and illustrators. She has traveled to Ukraine, where she helped coordinate coverage of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. She arrived in Israel on October 9, 2023 — her work covering Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza won a National Press Club award and an Alfr
In which 'Winnie-the-Pooh' turns 100 (opens the original)
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100 years ago, Edward Bear — also known as Winnie-the-Pooh — also known as Pooh — went bump, bump, bump down the stairs for the first time. Though he made an earlier appearance in the 1924 book of poems When We Were Very Young — "Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not to be wondered at" — 1926's Winnie-the-Pooh was author A.A. Milne and illustrator Ernest H. Shepard's first collection of stories about the honey-loving bear. Now, a kids' book celebrates that anniversary and the relationshi
Left over center, right over center — 2nd graders are braiding a 'Story Rug' (opens the original)
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A second grade classroom is in a braiding craze. They will braid anything: shoelaces, hair, friendship bracelets, the tails on their toy ponies. But Noah doesn't have anything to braid. So his teacher takes a whiteboard rag and tears it into three long strips. Soon, Noah is braiding on the school bus. And in the bath. He wakes up early to braid some more. The other kids in Class 203 start bringing in old skirts, tablecloths and curtains to braid. The braid stretches all the way down the hallway
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