WGBH (Great Blue Hill)

WGBH is an established public television and public radio broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. It operates over ten broadcasts: primarily WGBH 2 and WGBX 44 (television) and WGBH 89.7 FM (radio). WGBH is a member of PBS in regard to its television broadcasts, and both a member of NPR and an affiliate of PRI for its radio broadcasts. The license-holder is the WGBH Educational Foundation.

WGBH produces many shows for the above organizations, including nearly a third of PBS's national prime-time TV.

"GBH" stands for Great Blue Hill, the location of WGBH's FM transmitter, as well as the original location of WGBH-TV's transmitter. Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts, has an elevation of 635 feet (193 m) and is the highest point in the Boston area.


Blue Hill Ave.

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WGBH Forum Network - Weekly Podcasts and New Downloads

Cocteau Twins, Elizabeth Frazer

Cocteau Twins

"Hindsight is a wonderful thing. When the Cocteau Twins first emerged, they were compared to Siouxsie & The Banshees. In fact - as each of their records cumulatively proved - the Cocteau Twins never sounded like anything or anyone else. And, taken together, their nine albums, and 16 EPs/singles, sound less like a band and more like an element of nature. A freak of nature, even... Which was very 4AD."

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Elizabeth Frazer - Vocalist of the Cocteau Twins

Elizabeth Frazer's unique vocal style and "lyrics" (or lack thereof) have been the centre of much debate.

After the breakup of Cocteau Twins in 1998, Elizabeth Fraser provided vocals for Massive Attack as well as Peter Gabriel's millennium project OvO.

She has subsequently contributed to the soundtracks of several films, most notably The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and has occasionally appeared as a guest artist on other musicians' projects.

In 2004, Fraser was invited to participate in an unique audio exhibit, "Shhh...", at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Though she has released one white label recording called Underwater (which features a number of trance mixes of the title track) and has reportedly signed to Blanco y Negro Records, little is known about the progress of an officially released solo album.

The Blue Marble @NASA.gov

Everyone knows that NASA studies space; fewer people know that NASA also studies the Earth. Since NASA's creation almost 50 years ago, it has been a world leader in space-based studies of our home planet.

Earth Observatory

Earth Observing Missions

Earth - World Book @ NASA

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(what was once...) The Flat Earth

Copernicus - Copernicus' hypothesis contradicted the account of the sun's movement around the earth that appears in the Old Testament (Joshua 10:13).

The Flat Earth Society (an obvious joke... we hope)

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(also) Gaia - The Earth as spiritual and scientific ecosystem.

Gaia as a Greek and Roman goddess, also known as the Earth Mother.

Gaia as a set of philosophical views based on Gaia theory and the concept of a "living planet."

Gaia Theory (scientific) hypothesis that the living matter of the planet functioned like a single organism.

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

I can think of younger days when living for my life
Was everything a man could want to do
I could never see tomorrow,
but I was never told about the sorrow

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again

I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
And misty memories of days gone by
We could never see tomorrow,
No one said a word about the sorrow

And how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?
How can you mend this broken man?
How can a loser ever win?
Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again

Al Green
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

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