Filming Your World: A Global Video Competition
What is the one thing about your life and your surroundings that you want the whole world to know about? The BBC World Service is running a video competition called "MyWorld" that asks people to send...
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Gearing Up for the Pillsbury Bakeoff
The first Pillsbury Bakeoff took place in 1949 with amateur cooks from around the country competing for top honors and $50,000 (the equivalent of roughly $400,000 in today's dollars - not bad!).In the...
View ArticleAs Global Economy Grows, Can America Keep Up?
If President Obama’s weekly YouTube address is any indication, America’s ability to compete globally will be an issue very much on the table during his State of the Union speech tonight. So what are...
View ArticleElectric Shocks & Barbed Wire: The Psychology of Extreme Races
Humans seek adventure. Whether it's bungee jumping, hang gliding, or sky diving, we push ourselves to the extreme. We want roller coasters that go upside down, we want to ski the black diamond—if it's...
View ArticleThe Original Sausage Racer of Milwaukee
To hear Michael Dillon tell it, there’s nothing that encapsulates the experience of a Milwaukee Brewers game quite like the team’s sausage race, a sixth-inning tradition that Dillon literally brought...
View ArticleWQXR's Bob Sherman Judges Chopin Competition
WQXR’s Bob Sherman is in Florida this week, listening very closely to music by the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin.Sherman is a member of the jury at the Eighth National Chopin Piano...
View ArticleBrooklyn Club Hosts First Ever Pillow Fight World Cup
When your head hits the pillow tonight, you may count sheep, go over your grocery list, or seamlessly drift off into dreamland. But on Tuesday, the contenders in the first ever Pillow Fight World Cup...
View ArticleJell-O Molds Come Back into Fashion in Gowanus
Those who take playing with their food seriously can compete for the most impressive-looking and best-tasting gelatinous delight in the third annual Jell-O Mold Competition on Saturday from 6 to 10...
View ArticleTop Five Competition Controversies
Whether generated by the appeal of reality television or the means of promoting talented musicians, competitions seem to be more popular than ever these days. While we’ll let the experts debate the...
View Article2012 NYC Digital Waves Media Slam
The game is on! You can now enter to win cash prizes and bragging rights as this year's festival slam competition is now accepting entries. 2012 MULTIMEDIA SLAM THROWDOWN! Brought to you by WMPG’s...
View ArticleThe World of Competitive Yoga
Benjamin Lorr explores the world of competitive yoga and how he got sucked into an obsessive subculture. Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga...
View ArticleWinning and Losing
What's at the core of winning and losing– and how you could tip your odds of success. Co-authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman discuss their new book Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.
View ArticleWomen Are Not Men
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that's not always a bad thing.
View ArticleBeing A 'Top Dog' On Stage
For their latest book, authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman took on the subject of competition -- and the science behind why some people win and others lose. We talk with the Top Dog authors about...
View ArticleHosting a New-Music Cliburn Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is without a doubt one of the most prestigious—and grueling—competitions in the world. Competitors perform multiple rounds of terrifically difficult...
View ArticleInside the World of Competitive Yoga
Benjamin Lorr explores the world of competitive yoga and how he got sucked into an obsessive subculture. Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga...
View ArticleWomen Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that's not always a bad thing.
View ArticleAvoid Competition and Win-Win
Margaret Heffernan, multimedia technology executive and the author of A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition, looks at companies using generosity and trust, not competition, as the...
View ArticleSpringtime trip to Sarasota
Now in its 50th anniversary season, the Sarasota Music Festival has been bridging the season gap between such summer training centers as Tanglewood and Aspen. This week’s Young Artists Showcase goes...
View ArticleEnter the 2015 Battle of the Boroughs!
Be Heard!Want to be heard by tens of thousands of listeners and play in front of Grammy-winning artists, platinum record producers and executives from top labels? Compete in WNYC and WQXR’s citywide...
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