What is the history of olive oil?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Tom Mueller, the author Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. When did human beings start using olive oil? How did it become an integral part of so many cuisines? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is olive oil an important part of the culture you come from? Do you have a memory of cooking with olive oil you'd like to share? It's Your Call, with Malihe Razazan and you.

Guest:
Tom Mueller, a staff writer for the New Yorker

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Your Call 041409 Commons Series - What do we lose when a language dies?

What do we lose when a language dies? On the next Your Call we'll continue our series on Commons where we ask how we care for what we share. Most linguists and anthropologists believe that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will disappear within our lifetime. What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary and can we preserve it after the last speaker is gone? We'll talk with David Harrison, globe trotting linguist and author of When Languages Die and Laura Welcher, head of the San Francisco based Rosetta project. How harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
David Harrison in Philadelphia
Professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College. He is the author of When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge.

Laura Welcher
Archive Director for the Rosetta Project, a project of the San Francisco based Long Now foundation. Rosetta is building a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Since becoming a National Science Digital Library collection in 2004, the Rosetta Archive has more than doubled its collection size, now serving nearly 100,000 pages of material documenting over 2,500 languages - the largest resource of its kind on the Net.

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Your Call 010109 Commons: Who owns human cultural heritage?

Who owns the artifacts of our human cultural heritage? On the next Your Call, we replay a show from our series on the commons with a conversation on antiquities. Whether antiquities should be retuned to the countries where they were found is one of the most controversial issues in the art world today. For the past two centuries, the most powerful nations of the West have taken treasures of other countries to display in their museums. Who is the ultimate owner of the antiquities? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: McGuire Gibson, Professor in the Oriental Institute and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago.

Sharon Waxman, journalist and author of Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World.

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Your Call 122208 Commons: Who owns human cultural heritage?

Who owns the artifacts of our human cultural heritage? On the next Your Call, we continue our series on the commons with a conversation on antiquities. Whether antiquities should be retuned to the countries where they were found is one of the most controversial issues in the art world today. For the past two centuries, the most powerful nations of the West have taken treasures of other countries to display in their museums. Who is the ultimate owner of the antiquities? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: McGuire Gibson, Professor in the Oriental Institute and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at University of Chicago.

Sharon Waxman, journalist and author of Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World.

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