Tag: Laurie Taylor
Girls Rule
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Girls-Rule.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 6/17/2003 Girls Rule Transcript There’s a growing trend toward evermore powerful female characters appearing in cartoons like “The Powerpuff Girls”; in books like Artemis Fowl, in which a hi-tech, sci-fi female fairy crime-buster saves the day; and in comic books, like CrossGen’s Emma Bishop, the teenage […]
The Toy that Won’t LEGO
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Toy-That-Wont-Lego.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 6/5/2003 The Toy that Won’t LEGO Transcript Some toys never seem to go away. Remember those old Lego blocks with the LEGO people’s smiling yellow faces? Well, for a number of students at MIT a few years ago, those Legos were part of a […]
CrossGen Comics for the Classroom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/CrossGen-Comics-for-the-Classroom.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 5/27/2003 CrossGen Comics for the Classroom Transcript Ever wish you could’ve written a book report on the latest Batman comic rather than whatever happened to be on the school approved reading list? Well, what if Batman was on the list, and was even endorsed […]
Dance, Dance, Revolution
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dance-Dance-Revolution.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 5/15/2003 Dance, Dance, Revolution Transcript Despite all our knowledge about vitamins, foods, and exercise, so many of us are not eating or exercising the right way. Because of our poor habits, childhood obesity and other health problems are on the rise. Luckily, though, some […]
Interview with R. A. Salvatore
Laurie Taylor interviews fantasy author R. A. Salvatore.
Terry Pratchett
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Terry-Pratchett.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 4/28/2003 Terry Pratchett Transcript Terry Pratchett has written a wide range of science fiction and fantasy books (over 37 so far), but most of his tales take place in Discworld, an extraordinary alternate world where heroes and villians vie for power, and Death himself […]
The Legend of Zelda
Although many of you may instantly recognize that music, for those of you who don't, that's the theme song for the first Legend of Zelda video game.
The Egg Game
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Egg-Game.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 2/11/2003 The Egg Game Transcript We had a visit a few weeks ago from the Egg Man — no, not a poultryman or the character from the Beetles’ song, “I Am the Walrus,” but Erich Jonas, who’s invented something that he calls the Egg […]
Webcomics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Webcomics-A-Primer.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 1/23/2003 Webcomics Transcript After reading the Sunday funnies, why not move your chair to the computer and try making your own. Kids and adults of all ages dream of writing comic strips and comic books, and webcomics offer the chance to actually take that […]
Spirited Away and Hayao Miyazaki
You’re hearing a little from the tender opening theme of Spirited Away, the new animated film from the Japanese director and writer Hayao Miyazaki.