Kristen Meinzer appears in the following:
Recruiting & Retaining Women at the Top
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Back in the late 1960s, when the first female traders were allowed on the floor of Wall Street, they were treated more like the butts of jokes than like trailblazers. Today, the finan...
Back To School in Philadelphia, Minus the Budget
Monday, September 09, 2013
Today is the first day of school in Philadelphia, which is facing some of the nation's worst educational budget cuts. Karen Thomas is principal of Cook-Wissahickon Elementary, which h...
Wall Street & The Role of Women
Monday, September 09, 2013
When Margo Epprecht worked on Wall Street in the 1980s, she noticed that after women rose through the ranks they left. She writes about the phenomenon in a new piece for Quartz. Ginny...
Movie Date: 'Riddick,' 'Salinger,' and Lots of Listener Mail
Friday, September 06, 2013
In the newest Movie Date podcast, Rafer and Kristen explore the theme of seclusion in this week's big releases: from the self-imposed recluse life of J.D. Salinger (in the new documen...
New Movie Releases of The Week: Riddick, Salinger, The Ultimate Life
Friday, September 06, 2013
This week there are three releases on the chopping block. The first is "Riddick," the latest in the multi-part sci-fi action franchise. There’s also the documentary “Salinger,” which ...
Oregon Rep. Kurt Schrader Argues Against U.S. Action in Syria
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution on military action in Syria. Before the Senate Committee vote, Democratic Congressman Kurt Schrader o...
When Should We Take a Digital Break?
Thursday, September 05, 2013
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was caught playing video poker on his smartphone during the three hour meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Is the poker game...
Congressman Rick Nolan Speaks Out Against a Syria Strike
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
President Obama is seeking approval from Congress to launch a military strike against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. But not everyone in Congress is on board, and at least o...
New Movie Releases of The Week: Our Nixon, Closed Circuit, One Direction: This Is Us
Friday, August 30, 2013
This week’s movie releases include "Our Nixon," which examines the Nixon presidency, and “Closed Circuit,” the British crime thriller, in addition to “One Direction: This Is Us,” a do...
"Our Nixon" Documentary Gives Inside Look at 37th President
Friday, August 30, 2013
New recordings—all Super 8 home movies—made between 1969 and 1973, and seized by the FBI during the Watergate investigation show a new picture of Nixon. The 37th president's home movi...
Movie Date: 'Closed Circuit,' 'Our Nixon,' 'The Grandmaster,' 'One Direction: This is Us,' and Special Guest Morgan Spurlock
Thursday, August 29, 2013
In this week's Movie Date podcast, Rafer and Kristen wonder if anyone trusts the government anymore, and consider whether beauty is enough to make up for a lack of substance. They al...
Predicting Crime Through Data
Monday, August 26, 2013
Most of profiling has been based on race, gender and neighborhood. But what if those identifying factors were combined with other information, and maybe bits and pieces collected by t...
A 12-Year-Old Tech Prodigy's Mission
Monday, August 26, 2013
Quin Etnyre wanted to make tech education more fun, so he became a teacher. He started his own company, called Qtechknow, which sells DIY electronic starter kits. But Etnyre is not an...
New Movie Releases: The Spectacular Now, The World's End, You're Next
Friday, August 23, 2013
This week’s movie offerings visit the present, future and possible end. In the present tense, we have the teen romance “The Spectacular Now.” Looking toward the future there's “You’re...
Movie Date: 'The World's End,' 'You're Next,' 'The Spectacular Now'
Thursday, August 22, 2013
In this week's Movie Date podcast, Kristen and Rafer review movies that are about drinking...or that might be best watched while drunk. They include: "The World's End," which is about...
Symbiotic Relationships & The Circle of Life
Thursday, August 22, 2013
When studying nature, we often focus on predatory relationships. But there are other kinds of relationships in nature as well. Some, like the suckerfish and shark, fall under the cate...
Are Bob Filner's Days in Office as San Diego Mayor Numbered?
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Last month, Bob Filner was accused of inappropriate conduct by 16 women. After intense public scrutiny, the democratic mayor of San Diego enrolled in two weeks of intensive behavioral...
The RNC Versus CNN and NBC
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The Republican National Committee voted unanimously last Friday to pull their partnership with CNN and NBC due to the networks' planned films focusing on Hillary Rodham Clinton. Kathl...
Every Taco Tells a Story
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Tacos predate the arrival of Europeans in North America, and over the centuries, they’ve evolved from a Mexican food staple to one of America’s greatest fusion cuisines. This week, Fr...
Experiments With a Tech-Free Summer Camp
Monday, August 19, 2013
Technology isn't stopping one Pennsylvania summer camp from trying to get kids to connect more deeply with nature and one another. The camp decided to conduct an experiment by letting...