Last week’s episode of This American Life – Middle School is a must listen for anyone who survived junior high school.
Middle School Talk
Series: Youth Happenings
Teenagers and youth phenomena in the news today
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Nigerian Teen Girls Invent Pee Generator
14-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola and Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, 15, invented an incredible thing.
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Eton Style
httpv://youtu.be/9FtZkVRkusQ
The studious boys at Eton College, Britain’s most prestigious boarding school, write and perform a cheeky parody to the international mega hit ‘Gangham Style’ by PSY.
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Teen Exposes NYC Police Brutality
ALVIN: What am I getting arrested for?
NY POLICE OFFICER: For being a fucking mutt!
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Chuvash “Girls’ Beer” Tradition
The Republic of Chuvash, or Chuvashia, is a Republic in the center of European Russia.
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Malala Yousafzai, In Struggle
“Sometimes I imagine I’m going along and the Taliban stop me.
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Rwandan Students at Home
Mark Robbins traveled to Kigali, Rwanda from upstate New York to stay with a friend, Yutaka Sho, who was teaching at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in the summer of 2011.
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Moderator Movement
Three teens, Emma Axelrod, Elena Tsemberis and Sammi Siegel recently launched a successful campaign to have a female moderator for the 2012 presidential debates.
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Uganda Sk8
Ten years ago, most Ugandan teens had never heard of skateboarding.
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Pussy Riots Everywhere
Three members of girl band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail for reciting an anti-Putin “Punk Prayer” to the Virgin Mary last February at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.