New AIRSLA Telephone Listening Program!
AIRSLA has a new telephone listening program! It is designed so that those who do not have internet access can listen to a variety of podcasts for free on their home or mobile phone at their convenience!
- It's FREE - There is no membership fee and no advertisements!
- Listen to a variety of podcasts from AIRSLA, The Braille Institute, Time Magazine, LA Magazine, The Atlantic and Nature
- You will also get access to a list of other podcasts you might enjoy!
- Programs are updated regularly
- To access the telephone podcasts, simply call (773) 572-6319
- To contact us or to provide feedback, press the # key and leave a voicemail
A message from the president of AIRSLA
Hello AIRSLA Listeners,
First and foremost we hope that you are all doing well and staying safe and healthy.
Just like you, we have been carefully monitoring the rapidly changing COVID-19 situation. There is nothing more important than the health and safety of our listeners families and the community at large.
During this time as we all follow the "stay at home" mandated by the State of California, we want you to know that we are here and will continue to provide you up to date content as much as possible. We are all looking for ways to keep ourselves busy and entertained during these times and we hope that our Podcasts will help.
Please continue to visit our website www.airsla.org for all of our recorded seminars, magazine and newspaper readings and our podcasts.
Thank you for your continued support of AIRSLA. We are here for you in these uncertain times and look forward coming through this stronger. We are stronger together, as a community!
Dick Burden, President of AIRSLA
New Podcasts From The Week Ending 2/20/2021
| Project | Title | Podcast Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alt Latino Music | Warm Up Your Winter With New Songs | The digital mail bag of new music has been piling up. Hear new music from Bomba Estéreo, Magos Herrera, Diamante Eléctrico and more! |
| AppleVis | High and Low Heart Rate Alerts | Thomas Domville will show us how to set high and low heart rate alerts in Apple watch OS. |
| AppleVis | Space Wave Race for iOS | Prove what galactic material you are made of! Listen in as Thomas Domville takes flight with the Space Wave Race for iOS |
| AppleVis | Prescription Coupons for iOS | Thomas Domville walks you through GoodRx: Prescription Coupons for iOS. It's helped millions of Americans save on prescription medication! |
| The Atlantic | A Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer - Feb, 2021 | Families will gather. Restaurants will reopen. People will travel. The pandemic may feel like it's behind us-even if it's not. by James Hamblin |
| The Bill Simmons Podcast | 2/19/21 | Damian Lillard vs. Steph Curry, NFL Draft QBs, and Flea on the Lakers With Chris Haynes and Danny Kelly. |
| The Bill Simmons Podcast | 2/16/21 | Charles Barkley on Ben Simmons, Zion's Flaws, the Center Revolution, Adam Silver, and the Nets versus the Lakers |
| The Bill Simmons Podcast | 2/15/21 | Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin O'Connor to discuss the Celtics' underwhelming 13-13 season and what Boston can do to turn it around. |
| Braille Institute Podcasts | Feeding Your Child | Dr. Bill discusses feeding your child |
| Car Talk | #2108: Book This, Rebecca | Remember Rebecca, whose anal retentive dad insisted she keep detailed records of her gas mileage in his book? Dad has his say... |
| Catster Magazine | Doing Better for Cats - Jan/Feb, 2021 | How a celeb helps cats, by Rita Reimers |
| Daily AIRS | Friday 02/19/2021 | Health: Natural Ways to Cleanse Your Lungs, by Jamie Eske, Medical News Today |
| Daily AIRS | Wednesday 02/17/2021 | Business & Finance: To claim your stimulus, look to tax form, by Michelle Singletary, Washington Post |
| Daily AIRS | Tuesday 02/16/2021 | Style & Substance: Fine Tune Your Metabolism, pt 1, by Courtenay Smith, Readers Digest |
| Daily AIRS | Monday 02/15/2021 | Artificial Intelligence: Stories about the world of AI |
| Daily AIRS | Monday 02/15/2021 | AARP: These Well-Known Love Songs Have Backstories You Won't Believe. Let's just say vampires play a role in one. by Nicholas DeRenzo |
| The Davison Files | DF Cold | As I grow older and older (and older) my viewpoint changes on some things. |
| Discover Magazine | 2 Brain Articles - Feb 2021 | How learning to drive changes your brain, by Avery Hunt. The fruit fly brain has been hacked for language processing, by Physics arXive |
| The Economist | The Economist - Feb 6, 2021 | Global finance: The real revolution on Wall Street-High tech meets high finance; The toll on growth: The pandemic could undercut Africa's precarious progress |
| FilmSpotting | FilmSpotting #814 | We dig into the technical sophistication - and the humanist touch - of Jonathan Demme's THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS... |
| Fresh Air | "Black Radical" William Monroe Trotter | Kerri Greenidge tells the story of the Black newspaper editor who was a forceful crusader for civil rights in the early 20th century... |
| Fresh Air | How The Pandemic Hurts Working Moms | Claire Cain Miller says working mothers have reduced hours or left the workforce due to the pandemic. It could have lasting effects... |
| Fresh Air | What Racism Costs Everyone | Heather McGhee uses economic data to show discriminatory laws and practices targeting Blacks also negatively impact society at large |
| Fresh Air | Police Reform From The Inside | Rosa Brooks carried a badge and gun and worked for the DC police department on a voluntary basis. TANGLED UP IN BLUE isb about her experiences |
| Fresh Air | Spike Lee & Remembering Cloris Leachman | Sam Sanders talks with Spike Lee about DA 5 BLOODS, and about working with Chadwick Boseman. Also, we remember Cloris Leachman... |
| Second Vision | Second Vision 02/15/2021 | An Interview with Penelope Jean Hayes and Carole Serene Borgens authors of "Do Unto Earth: It's Not To Late" |
| Marketplace Money | 2/20/21 | Hazard pay for essential workers has quietly disappeared. Status of efforts to replace it. Inflation in energy, shelter and food... |
| Marketplace Money | 2/19/21 | The Biden administration is unveiling an immigration bill with a path to citizenship. What that could mean for the economy... |
| Marketplace Money | 2/17/21 | How short selling works (and what it does to the economy). Plus, more fallout from the freeze in Texas, Puerto Rico's coffee industry... |
| Marketplace Money | 2/16/21 | Why Texas' power grids couldn't meet demand. We look at why. Plus: Life in North Dakota's oil fields, YOUNG ROCK and "employment" |
| Marketplace Money | 2/15/21 | The administration plans to spend $50 million to get more people to sign up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act... |
| Monitor On Psychology Magazine | 02/14/2021 | The Brain Game Center at the University of California, Riverside, designs training programs to improve vision, hearing, memory, and more. |
| The Moth | Feb 16 2021 | Stories of giving and receiving. A volunteer, would-be chef, firefighter, a date in need of a liver, and a scientist who needs help |
| Mother Jones | Lock Him Up? - Feb 2021 | Lock Him Up? Why Donald Trump could be the first president to face criminal charges. By Russ Choma. |
| National Geographic Kids | National Geographic Kids - Feb 2021 | The Secret History of Chocolate by Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh. Fit For a Queen by Allyson Shaw. |
| Nature | Feb 19 2021 | What's the endgame for the COVID-19 pandemic? Is a world without SARS-CoV-2 possible, or is the virus here to stay? |
| Nature | Feb 17 2021 | Researchers smashed a record by sequencing a genome over a million years old; extracting DNA from permafrost-preserved mammoth teeth |
| Readers Digest | Minority Report - Jan/Feb, 2021 | How Asian Canadians are fighting a rise in pandemic racism. by Erica Ngao |
| Smithsonian | Alphabet & Going Nuts - Feb 2021 | Our writing system was devised by folks who Couldn't read. The bizarre sanitarium staple that became a spreadable obsession |
| This American Life | 731: What Lies Beneath | Stories of people summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep. |
| We The People | African American Constitutional Visionaries | Courageous stories and legendary lives of African American constitutional visionaries throughout history. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman... |
New Stuff
Peter Felix selects and reads articles about recipes, chefs, wines, cocktails, restaurants, travel, home and designs from Food and Wine Magazine.
Mark Ferrari reads you his article selections from the prestigious journal of the Smithsonian Institution.
The American Spectator is back in action and is being produced by Henry Harrison.
Tim Simek reads selections from Esquire Magazine, a men's magazine that takes its content beyond fashion. Topics run a wide range - from beautiful women and interesting men - to sex, new music,and fascinating in-depth pieces on items of national interest.
We The People is a weekly balanced conversation with leading scholars of all viewpoints on contemporary and historical topics about the United States Constitution. We The People, hosted by National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen will spark your interest in, and knowledge of, the laws that make our country great!
Nancy Porter reads you her selections from Time Magazine, spiced up occasionally with current news items. Time is the first (and best) news weekly in America (she says)!
Merrick Schneider is reading articles from one of the best (and most objective) newspapers in the United States, The Wall Street Journal. He can be listened to on our Wall Street Journal Podcast. Get the latest and greatest news on a great range of topics - not just articles on finance!
Guide Dog Selection. This LA Times article will explain what it takes to be a great guide dog and how to spot one. Written by Melissa Healey and read by Max Flehinger.
Stem Cell Research! Listen to Dr. Jonathan Thomas, of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), discuss the current status of stem cell research and its implications for treatment of vision. It was recorded in collaboration with the Foundation Fighting Blindness.
AIRSLA Smart Phone Apps! Enjoy the full range of AIRS programming from your iPhone or Android phone. They are FREE from the Apple App Store and Google Play (search for airsla), respectively. Here is a short tutorial on how to use the AIRSLA apps on your iPhone, by Julian Vargas
New Series on Smart Phones Dr. Bill Takeshita and Julian Vargas have initiated a new series on Smart Phone selection, usage, and accessibility.
Once Blind and Now They See! An exciting account of research on blind children in India by Dr. Pawan Sinha of M.I.T. has two goals: to help blind children regain their sight and to observe their recovery and learn how the brain processes visual information.
Blind Pole Vaulters Listen to Max read an inspiring story of blind athletes on the road to success!
Stories of personal experiences with eyes and seeing from Sun Magazine, read by Dan Woren. Enjoy this and other podcasts from Dan's selection of letters from The Sun's readers in their "Readers Write" series.
Audio Description Available For Vision Impaired. Did you know that many of the programs you watch on TV are designed to help those in the vision impaired community SEE what is being presented? Many people don't know how widely available audio description is to those who need it, including those who need it most. Hear from Herb Merriweather as he shares some of what he has learned by working with Audio Eyes, LLC. The Case For Accessible Media, read to you by Jason Wineinger.
AppleVis Podcast We are pleased to link you to this fantastic source of guidance on the use of Apple's VoiceOver technology on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Their experts will really give you a flood of good advice, not only on the standard iDevice functions, but on popular applications and games as well. Try it!
Darkness Visible, and Palpable. In the land of the blind - as you learn in the exhibition "Dialog in the Dark" - the one-eyed man hasn’t a chance. This recording describes a participatory experience that, for an hour or so, takes the fully-sighted through the fascinating process of adapting to total lack of sight.
More News
CCLVI Lectures on Low Vision These podcast lectures, sponsored by The Council of Citizens With Low Vision International, let you listen to a variety of topics that are specially designed for people who are partially sighted. Dr. Bill Takeshita presents these lectures each month and topics will include low vision and driving, signs and symptoms of emergency vision problems, what's new in low vision aids, and more.
Unable to Read the Newspaper? NFB-NEWSLINE is a free electronic service that gives any blind, visually impaired or print disabled person access to newspapers, magazines, and TV listings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using a Touch-Tone telephone. To hear more information, including samples and how you can sign up, go to NFB NewsLine Information.
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