Blogs

Up first on tonight's schedule at 6:00, we've got Hip Hop Historics with Goatt. DJ Goatt takes a look at hip hop through the collaborations and influences that made it possible and how artists influenced--and were influenced by--social movements. Tonight, he will take us through the career, music and impact of A Tribe Called Quest, an act that cracked open the genre.

I Liked You Better Before You Sold Out is next at 7:00. Tonight's guest is Louis Landry, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist and drummer for Curtis Eller's American Circus. He'll be talking about his career and his latest project, a concept album called JJ vs. the Digital Whale.

We start tonight's programming with The Endless Frontier at 6:00 and an interview Rich Schneider, a professor in the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Schneider will discuss his research on the craniofacial development of birds and the connection between evolutionary biology and medicine. He'll also explain the open access movement, an effort to make published academic research available to the general public, and what he's doing to help that happen.

Next at 6:30, we'll join With Good Reason for a conversation about something most of us never see: true darkness. Host Sarah McConnell talks to an author whose book examines the impact of the loss of nighttime darkness and learns about how people dealt with darkness throughout history. Later in the show, titled Let There Be Night, McConnell has a look at how social situations affect IQ and the history of the classical guitar.

all who are interested in becoming a deejay at WXDU in either music or non-music programming are invited to our semesterly new dj information session/interest meeting !

the meeting will be held tomorrow night (jan. 14) at the duke coffeehouse at 7 p.m.

you can find the duke coffeehouse on duke's east campus. turn onto trinity ave from buchanan rd and follow the parking lots to the crowell building. you will ascend at metal staircase to the coffehouse. it is above student health

there will be pizza from lilly's pizza for dinner. vegan pizza will be served !

NO PRIOR RADIO EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED. POSITIONS ARE OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE DURHAM AND DUKE COMMUNITIES

more information can be found at the facebook event, which is linked above

The Endless Frontier returns tonight at 6:00 to discuss some of the latest in science news. The hosts will examine a new study that links cancer rates in different tissues and organs to the number of stem cells in those tissues and organs, ethical concerns relating to the human and animal chimeras made during research, and the use of programming languages in scientific research.

Then at 6:30: Many people make New Year's resolutions and take the start of a new year as an opportunity to look to the future. But how did people in the past imagine the future? In an episode titled The Future Then: Visions of a Future Yet to Come, BackStory with the American History Guys explores just how people envisioned the years that lay ahead.

 WXDU Top 100 2014

1. 59...See Gulls...2 Songs...s/r

2. 59...Angel Olsen...Burn Your Fire For No Witness...Jagjaguwar

3. 56...Lee Fields...Emma Jean...Truth & Soul

4. 55...Ex Hex...Rips...Merge

Based on airplay by all of our DJs during the 2-month period each album was on playlist. I’m pretty sure I’ve never had the same band back-to-back in the top 5 before.

1 - John Howie Jr & the Rosewood Bluff - Everything Except Goodbye
2 - T0W3RS - TL;DR
3 - See Gulls - 2 Songs
4 - Hiss Golden Messenger - Bad Debt
5 - Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
6 - Reigning Sound - Shattered
7 - Dex Romweber Duo - Images 13
8 - Solar Halos - Solar Halos
9 - Various - Merge 25th Anniversary Covers EP
10 - Daniel Bachman - Orange County Serenade
11 - Lilac Shadows - No Dark / No Light
12 - Humble Tripe - The Giving
13 - Last Year’s Men - Underwhelmed
14 - Datahata - Spectral Cities
15 - Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba - The Great Peace
16 - Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
17 - Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
18 - Silent Lunch - Late to Bloom
19 - Horizontal Hold - This is Not a Living
20 - Logical Sound Discovery - Thrill Seeker
21 - Shipwrecker - III
22 - Wesley Wolfe - Numbskull
23 - The Loudermilks - The Loudermilks
24 - The Tender Fruit - The Darkness Comes
25 - Dan Melchior und das Menace - Hunger
26 - Jenks Miller/JJ Toth - Roads to Ruin
27 - Curtis Eller’s American Circus - How To Make it in Hollywood
28 - Sagan Youth Boys - Annotated Universe
29 - Ezekiel Graves - Chthonic Journey

Keeping with the retrospective theme of today's Polyphonic Perversity and local music countdowns, we start tonight at 6:00 with the Western Folklife Center's take on the significance and meaning of recognizing the New Year. In an episode called New Year's: A Reflection, a version of which were originally broadcast in 1996, we'll explore the traditions of reflection and renewal in Gaelic and Native American cultures.

Next at 7:00, BackStory with the American History Guys takes a look at charity in this season of giving. In What Gives: Generosity in America, the guys discuss how ideas and practices of philanthropy have evolved in this country over the centuries.

The Endless Frontier is taking a holiday break, so we start at 6:00 tonight with a look at the 1914 Christmas Truce, a time during which troops violated military law and held an unofficial truce in order to celebrate Christmas. The truce occurred one hundred years ago, as soldiers in the midst of the First World War longed to be home with loved ones for the holiday. Later in this episode of Humankind, produced in conjunction with WGBH-Boston and titled Humankind Special: The Christmas Truce, the producers share the story of another peace effort during World War I: conscientious objection.

WXDU News is next at 7:00. On tonight’s show: