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IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2013
6:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 01/04A A new online map created by the State Cartographer's Office and Joy Cardin's guest is helping people correctly say the names of more than 1700 Wisconsin locations. She talks with "Miss Pronouncer" about the state's hard-to-say cities, villages, counties and landmarks, and invite you to weigh in with your favorite mispronounced places. Guest: Jackie Johnson, founder of www.misspronouncer.com, and Madison-based reporter for the Wisconsin Radio Network.
7:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 01/04B Calls to ban certain firearms and ammunition have become a hot political issue since the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school last month. However, Joy Cardin's guest gun expert says much of the information being circulated about firearms is just plain wrong, and he offers to clear up what he calls common myths and misconceptions. Guest: Adrian Alan, an active police officer and a Wisconsin Department of Justice-certified firearms instructor. He also maintains his department's rifles, and he's a member of the National Rifle Association.
8:00 AM Joy Cardin  - 01/04C Congress avoids the fiscal cliff and braces for the debt ceiling debate, state Republicans call mining legislation their top priority, and a state lawmaker questions the legitimacy of Kwanzaa. Joy Cardin's guests weigh in on these issues and more of the top national and state news in the Week in Review. Guests: - Owen Robinson, columnist at the West Bend Daily News and blogger at www.bootsandsabers.com. - John Smart, past chair of the Price County Democratic Party and a regular contributor to Fighting Bob and newspapers around Wisconsin.
9:00 AM Veronica Rueckert  - 01/04D Veronica Rueckert finds out about the things that should make us happy, but don't and those that shouldn't make us happy but do, when she talks with a prominent researcher on happiness. Guest: Sonja Lyubomirsky, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Sonja's research-on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness-has been honored with grants from organizations like the John Templeton Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. Her new book, "The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does," will be out next week. The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, ...
10:00 AM Veronica Rueckert  - 01/04E Veronica talks with members of the Midwestern folk band, Pert Near Sandstone. They visited us in our Madison studios to share their songs and thoughts on "Old Time" music. Guests: Bluegrass band, Pert Near Sandstone, whose new album is "Paradise Hop." Paradise Hop
11:00 AM Larry Meiller  - 01/04F Winter is a great time to turn our attention to our houseplants. On Garden Talk, Larry Meiller talks with the author of "The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home." He gets recommendations for keeping holiday plants thriving, and much more! Guest: Tovah ("TOE-va") Martin, author of a dozen gardening books, including "The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home, horticulture industry veteran and sought-after speaker and trainer. The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices...
12:30 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads from "The Complete Shorter Fiction of Anthony Trollope." The extraordinary novelist unveils English society in four short tales: "Christmas at Thompson Hall," "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," and "Father Giles of Ballymoy."
1:00 PM Talk of the Nation Science Friday What were the top science stories of 2012? The year brought the discovery of the Higgs boson, private flights to the International Space Station, and a farewell to the Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George. Join Ira Flatow and guests for a look back 2012's year in science and share your picks as well.
2:00 PM Talk of the Nation Science Friday How do Arctic fish avoid becoming ice cubes? Antifreeze, of course, in their blood. Ira Flatow looks at the weird adaptations of cold-dwellers on Science Friday. Plus, a trip to the icy clouds where comets are born. And food shortages in a hotter, drier world.
3:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens  - 01/04K New Year's resolutions don't make a lot of people happy. They can be a source of failure, year after year. Join Ben Merens and his guest as they discuss how to make your resolution a lasting source of happiness, transforming yourself in small ways to become a newer, better self. Guest: Christine Carter, a sociologist, is the Executive Director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. She is the author of "Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents." Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful K...
4:00 PM At Issue with Ben Merens  - 01/04L Your views about the week's most significant story are welcome today after four on At Issue - It's Your Views on the News. What story has touched you the most and why? Guest: Dennis Riley, Professor of Political Science, UW-Stevens Point. He is author of Bureaucracy and Policy Process: Keeping the Promises. Bureaucracy and Policy Process: Keeping the Promises
5:00 PM Q with Jian Ghomeshi Jim Brown guest hosts Q. Matthew Honan of Wired explains why, from personal experience, he's given up on the notion that passwords can protect our computers. Then, from the best of Q archives: actor Javier Bardem on his work for the documentary Sons of the Clouds, chef April Bloomfield on her cookbook "A Girl and Her Pig," and a debate over apps that allow parents to track the location of their kids.
6:00 PM On Point The Weekly News Roundtable: A fiscal cliff deal. Uproar over Sandy relief. Hillary's health. The On Point weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
7:00 PM The Moth Radio Hour A special live edition of The Moth at Town Hall in NYC with Garrison Keillor and additional hosting by Jay Allison. World renowned conservationist and field biologist Alan Rabinowitz makes a life-changing friendship while studying the Taron tribe of the Himalayas; a woman describes how her father's risky entrepreneurial endeavors kept her close-knit Southern family in flux; and a woman raised as a Mormon is terrified that her parents will disown her when she confesses that she has left the faith.
8:00 PM As It Happens Hear news and interviews from around the world on As It Happens.
9:00 PM Joy Cardin  - 01/04C Congress avoids the fiscal cliff and braces for the debt ceiling debate, state Republicans call mining legislation their top priority, and a state lawmaker questions the legitimacy of Kwanzaa. Joy Cardin's guests weigh in on these issues and more of the top national and state news in the Week in Review. Guests: - Owen Robinson, columnist at the West Bend Daily News and blogger at www.bootsandsabers.com. - John Smart, past chair of the Price County Democratic Party and a regular contributor to Fighting Bob and newspapers around Wisconsin.
10:00 PM Veronica Rueckert  - 01/04E Veronica talks with members of the Midwestern folk band, Pert Near Sandstone. They visited us in our Madison studios to share their songs and thoughts on "Old Time" music. Guests: Bluegrass band, Pert Near Sandstone, whose new album is "Paradise Hop."
11:00 PM Chapter A Day Karl Schmidt reads from "The Complete Shorter Fiction of Anthony Trollope." The extraordinary novelist unveils English society in four short tales: "Christmas at Thompson Hall," "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," and "Father Giles of Ballymoy."
11:30 PM BBC World Service Hear World news and features overnight seven days a week from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
IDEAS NETWORK PROGRAMS - FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2013

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