It's all too much Psychologists in Britain have said that the last full week of January is the most depressing time of year, and labelled next Monday Blue Monday. Blue is a slang way of saying unhappy. Mondays are generally seen as the worst day of...
Our oceans are alive with sound. Sound that most of us never hear. But there is one man who is definitely listening. The blue whales in the eastern North Pacific off the California coast make two primary types of calls. You know one is this very puls...
By Doug Levine Washington 24 March 2008 One of the leading contenders for Acoustic Artist of the Year at the upcoming Blues Music Awards is singer and guitarist Eric Bibb. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us, Bibb adds a touch of gospel to his repertoire o...
Nurse: Luke Power, the doctor will see you now. Luke: She looks sick, take her. Jason: Give us just a second. There is no reason to be scared. Luke: Oh yeah the last time I saw a doctor you went poking around like a Turkish drug enforcement officer w...
By Katherine Cole Washington 22 February 2008 Many acoustic bluegrass music fans are leary of the words contemporary and modern, preferring to listen only to songs that stick to the traditional style invented by Bill Monroe in the 1940s. These fans d...
By Doug Levine Washington 12 February 2008 Life is good for Chicago bluesman Lurrie Bell. The singer and guitarist was recently nominated for three Blues Music Awards, and his latest album is riding up the blues charts. As VOA's Doug Levine tells us,...
By Paul Sisco Washington 13 December 2007 It has long been known that when days become shorter many individuals experience a form of depression called Season Affective Disorder, or SAD. In this Searching for Solutions report, Paul Sisco reports on on...
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Dusk in rural India, farmhands sweep the land trying to drive away an animal that is threatening their livelihood. It's called nilgai or blue cow. In Rajasthan, nilgai roam in the hundreds, consuming anything and everything in their path, especially...
The mating ritual of each species on Earth has certain, well, peculiarities. As you might tell it from the name of the species itself, blue-footed boobies are no exception to this rule. Here in the Galapagos Islands, this pair of blue-footed boobies...
