Big Talk co-host Alex Ashkin continues his conversation with “the Father of Green Cleaning” (and, incidentally, his own father), Steve Ashkin, in the finale of this two-parter. Part 1 aired Thursday, July 29, 2021. [Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.]
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Working in the cleaning products industry, Steve Ashkin hit upon the idea that our efforts to sanitize our home and work environments needn’t foul our global environment. Moreover, he posited that our scrubbing, scouring, and wiping liquids and utensils shouldn’t make us sick in our own homes. Many in his industry scoffed at Ashkin’s suggestions but he kept working to …
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The conversation with the reporter, photographer, author, and journalism instructor at Indiana University continues. Part 1 aired Thursday, June 24, 2021. [Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.]
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He covered the biggest local stories of the ’80s and ’90s, including proposals to build a PCB incinerator, the privatization of Bloomington Hospital, and the clear-cutting of Hoosier National Forest. Steve Higgs, working for the Herald Times and, later, his own independent news magazine called the Bloomington Alternative, had strong personal opinions about these issues and more but strove to …
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The anthropologist-cum-archeologist talks about people — us. Part 1 of the conversation with the Indiana University professor emeritus aired Thursday, June 10, 2021. [Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.]
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When it comes to societies and cultures, they are what they eat. The world’s peoples see their cuisines as defining characteristics of who they are. Can the globalization of ethnic and national cuisines wipe out local flavors? Indiana University professor emeritus of anthropology Richard Wilk has studied and written extensively on food and its relationship to cultures. Alex Ashkin speaks …
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The only music director radio station WFHB has ever known is retiring at the end of this month, May 2021. In this edition, Manion explains how he got “music DNA” in his genes. Part 1 aired Thursday, May 20, 2021. [Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.]
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He grew up loving radio. When he discovered “underground” radio, he came to love it even more. Jim Manion has been WFHB’s music director since the station first went on air in 1993. Now, after a long career herding hundreds of DJs and reviewing tens of thousands of LPs, CDs, demos, and streamed cuts, he’s calling it quits. Manion will …
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She grew up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and watched as the desert in that corner of the Arabian Peninsula was transformed into a major world metropolis. The transformation, she observed, carried with it both benefits and harms. One of the Science News 10 scientists under the age of 40 to watch in 2018, Attari now researches the psychology behind …
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Alex Ashkin speaks with martial arts maven Steve Scott. In this edition, the two discuss all forms of martial arts as well as local Bloomington practitioners who’ve made names for themselves, nationally and globally, in the world or competitive hand-to-hand fighting. Part 1 of this interview aired Thursday, April 30, 2021. [Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin speak with Bloomington’s …
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