Story of the Week

RadioElkGrove's Featured Stories of the Week from Public Radio.

We pick these stories because they add something of timeless value to the understanding of our world.  Enjoy!

This Week

May 31st, 2012
Texting that Saves Lives (video)
by Nancy Lublin

When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.



 Nancy Lublin is CEO and Chief Old Person at DoSomething.org, where she harnesses the extraordinary energy of teens and focuses it on issues they care passionately about.

Quotes from the talk:



“The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.”

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“We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].”

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Week of May 21st, 2012
Rainy Wedding - 3 Minute Fiction Winner
by Carrie MacKillop

"Sometimes you read a piece of literature that you realize you will never forget," says author Luis Alberto Urrea, the judge of NPR's "Three Minute Fiction" writing contest, round 8. Winner MacKillop has no formal background in creative writing, but her story is touching and riveting. Listen to the full story with a reading by NPR's Susan Stamberg. To read the story "Rainy Wedding", click here.

From NPR

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Past Stories of the week.

Week of May 14th, 2012
The Death Of Facts In An Age Of 'Truthiness'

by NPR Staff

In a piece for the Chicago Tribune, columnist Rex Huppke says facts are now dead. Recent anectotes and a Dartmouth experiment show how humans react to truth in the climate of bias.

From NPR

Week of May 8th, 2012
Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiege

When we think about fraud, we think about character: Bad people do bad things. But that model, researchers say, is profoundly inadequate...

From NPR