Viva San Pietro! Sicily looks to Gloucester MA for divine inspiration

It’s official: the United States is now a majority gamer nation. So how does the U.S. fit into the international gaming landscape? Will we always be an "outlier" when it comes to our gaming culture? Listen to this edition of the Local Global Mashup Show to find out.

From basements to stadiums: the rise and rise of gaming

Bullying in school makes headlines with depressing regularity. Yet despite all the headlines, America’s bullying rates are sort of average. On this edition of the Local Global Mashup Show, stories from countries with the best and worst records on bullying, and what they tell us about how to protect our kids.

How to beat America’s bullying “epidemic”

PREVIEW: How to beat America’s bullying “epidemic”

Plastic “tumbleweeds” roam the deserts of Dubai. They serve as makeshift nurseries for malaria-bearing mosquitoes in Kenya. The Chinese call them “white pollution.” In this week's Local Global Mashup Show, we travel from Rwanda to Ireland to California with this question: Are plastic bags a necessary convenience? Or a persistent pollutant threatening our planet's ecosystem?

PREVIEW: Plastic bags — necessary convenience or global blight?

In this week's Local Global Mashup Show, we speak with a family that says the noise from a local turbine has "pretty much destroyed our lives." The global and very emotional debate on whether wind turbines make people sick.

PREVIEW: Can wind turbines make you sick?

Can Mexico help the U.S. break our cycle of poverty?

A new way of doing welfare

Memphis will pay children to go to school

PREVIEW: A new way of doing welfare

Eric Idle said American beer is like making love in a canoe: "it's fucking close to water." But now American beer is developing a different reputation thanks to the craft brew movement.

American craft beer floats boats around the world

In this week’s show — frugal innovation, or how to do more with less, when it comes to healthcare.

Can India’s “Henry Ford of Heart Surgery” cut medicals costs in the U.S.?

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