Built decades ago, many of our nuclear weapons systems must be upgraded or replaced. Is it worth spending hundreds of billions of dollars, however, to maintain American nuclear might?
On this week's Global Notes, Jerome and Tony Sarabia listen to cuts from Brazilian artist Gal Costa's latest labum, Recanto. A veteran of Brazil's Tropicalismo music scene, Costa records songs in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
On today's Global Notes, we encounter the zurla, a wooden horn with a big sound. Local musician Blagoj Lamnjov plays some folk songs on this one-of-a-kind Balkan wind instrument.
Japan's birth rate is extremely low, so every five years the government conducts a survey on attitudes toward sex and marriage. And the latest statistics suggest that it's unlikely the birth rate will go up. It turns out that lots of Japanese aren’t even having sex.
On today's Global Notes, Jerome and Eight Forty-Eight and Radio M host Tony Sarabia listen to what happens when music and politics intersect.This collision is familiar all over the world.
The featured album this month is by British guitarist Rick Tomlinson, whose style is informed in equal parts by psychedelic 60s rock and Middle Eastern rhythms.
