Mythili Rao appears in the following:
School Lunches Come With a Serving of Politics
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Last year, more than 5 billion school lunches were served to over 30 million students across the country through The National School Lunch Program. In total, more than 224 billion lun...
'The Onion' For Muslim-Americans?
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Meet the founders of The Hummus, a new humor site with a Muslim-American lens and headlines like, “Muslim Daughter Feared Missing After Father Calls 38 Times Within 5 Minutes” and “C...
100 Years of the Harmonica
Monday, February 10, 2014
Today marks 100 years since the birth of the man who forever changed the harmonica. Larry Adler, who died in 2001, spent his life transforming the harmonica from a folksy toy for amat...
Why Romance Novels Sell
Monday, February 10, 2014
The most lucrative position in publishing today belongs not to “literary” fiction or inspirational self-help books. It’s the $1.4 billion dollar romance novel that's on top in 2014. ...
Dylan Farrow, Woody Allen and 'Minding Our Business'
Friday, February 07, 2014
As the controversy around Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow continues, it's hard to determine the facts in any particular case of sexual assault. What we know for certain is that many case...
Is the Tobacco Lobby Losing its Grip?
Thursday, February 06, 2014
The biggest drug store in the country, CVS, announced this week that it plans to stop selling cigarettes in all of its stores across the country. What does this move mean for the toba...
Will True Democracy Ever Come to Egypt?
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Three years ago this month, protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square reached a fever pitch—and the voice of the people was heard. But in the months and years since, Egypt’s future remains in...
Turns Out Humans Only Feel Four Basic Emotions
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Conventional scientific understanding holds that there are only six classic emotions: Happy, surprised, afraid, disgusted, angry, and sad. That is until now. A new study finds that, i...
In Search of a Stolen Stradivarius
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Earlier this week, Milwaukee concertmaster Frank Almond was walking to a car after a performance when his 1715 Stradivarius violin was stolen by a thief. A former FBI special agent di...
Syria: A Diplomatic Dance & the Music of War
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Is America's approach to Syria failing? Nancy Soderberg, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, discusses Syria's future and the Obama administration's agenda. Each morning, Sy...
The Military's Encyclopedia of Ethical Failures
Monday, February 03, 2014
"The Encyclopedia of Ethical Failures" sounds like a whimsical title for a high-brow novel, but it is actually a very real bureaucratic laundry list of the wrong-doings of government...
Russian Weapons Removal & The Cold War Backpack Bomb
Friday, January 31, 2014
After the Cold War, MIT Physicist Thomas Neff developed a program to allow Moscow to sell the uranium from its retired weapons and dilute it into fuel for electric utilities in the U....
Robots and Hollywood: Fact Vs. Fiction
Thursday, January 30, 2014
As scientists and technology companies begin developing robots and incorporating robotics technologies into our every day lives, will our Hollywood understanding ring true in reality?
Synthetic Food Takes the Hassle Out of Eating
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
What if you didn’t have to ever eat to get all the nutrition you need? This dream of never having to deal with the hassle of "food" is what inspired Rob Rhinehart to create a grayish,...
A Literary Walkabout in Gary Shteyngart's Queens
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
It was at the Solomon Schechter School of Queens that he first made his public debut as a writer. We do a walk and talk through some of his favorite neighborhood haunts.
The Messy, Valuable World of Bitcoin
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Today the New York Department of Financial Services begins its first of two days of hearings on digital currencies like Bitcoin. Charlie Herman, economics editor for WNYC, discusses h...
How to Take the Plunge & Do What You Love
Monday, January 27, 2014
Last week, we discussed this piece of common advice given to young people: "Do what you love." It sounds very simple: Follow your passion, and the money will follow. But is that alway...
Who Really Gets to Do What They Love?
Friday, January 24, 2014
It's become popular to insist that the key to a successful career is to simply "follow your bliss" straight into a profession that you're truly passionate about. For most people, is i...
Syria's Peace Talks: A Complicated Patchwork
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Central to the Syrian peace talks is the question of how the international community should deal with President Bashar al-Assad, particularly as the evidence of war crimes continues t...
A New Chapter for the Voting Rights Act?
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced a new bill that takes up some of the issues identified in the Supreme Court’s June decision in Shelby Counter v. Holder. Joining The Ta...
