Stu Reid and Dave Burstein
For 11 years, Stu and Dave have reported on stories that will improve your life.
Stu builds community networks and community gardens, and leads WHCR’s Emergency Broadcast Team. Dave has covered tech for over 20 years and is always trying to get closer to the truth. He’s written two books with Jennie Bourne, who often joins us.
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daveb@dslprime.comWHCR 90.3 FM: The Voice of Harlem
WHCR-FM 90.3, “The Voice of Harlem,” is a community radio station licensed to New York City and owned by the City College of New York. For four decades it has given upper Manhattan a station that sounds like upper Manhattan: many languages, many musical traditions, and plenty of opinions. It’s non-commercial, and listeners and local underwriters keep the lights on.
On the Air
On a Tuesday morning in the summer of 1986, station manager Vincent Thomas sat atop City College’s hilltop campus and announced that WHCR was on the air. The first studio was a crowded room on the NAC’s first floor, with turntables and tape players sitting on college-issue desks. Thomas wanted more than a broadcast. He hoped neighborhood residents would get directly involved in programming and help preserve Harlem’s oral tradition.
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New menopause treatment guidelines
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now strongly recommends hormone therapy for hot flashes and related sleep problems in women who can safely take it, ideally started before age 60 or within 10 years of menopause. For women who can’t or won’t take hormones, ACOG recommends SSRIs, SNRIs or newer neurokinin-blocking drugs. CBT, exercise, mindfulness, hypnosis and acupuncture get weaker endorsements. The evidence is insufficient to recommend hormones for menopause-related depression.
EV sales keep breaking records
Battery-electric car sales keep hitting new highs, according to energy think tank Ember. Growth outside the U.S. and China is driving the trend, with sales in the rest of the world up an estimated 45% in January through August 2026 compared with the same period last year.
Astronomers find “white” dwarf stars glowing purple, pink, and the first-ever green star.
NVIDIA puts AI power on the laptop
NVIDIA’s new RTX Spark chip brings up to a petaflop of AI performance and 128GB of shared memory to laptops, enough to run AI agents, 8K video editing and AI development locally instead of in the cloud. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI are launching models starting at $2,599. The real test: will it simplify everyday work, and who can afford it?
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