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On ICE: Celebrating Ideas, Creativity, Edge

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Listen to our show featuring ideas and inventions. We invite you to tell us what you've invented or would like to see invented, and to share your ideas on improving some aspect of life.

Faith Middleton and Rich Hanley of Quinnipiac University also share ideas and inventions they've heard about, from the pool liner for the back of your pickup truck to the key that refuses to start your car if you've had too much to drink. Plus: The 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival.

Join the conversation by email, on Twitter, or on Facebook.

GUESTS:

  • Rich Hanley is a professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University.

MUSIC:

  • “Gne Gne,” Montefiori Cocktail
  • “Central Nervous Piston,” El Ten Eleven
  • “Sorry About Your Irony,” El Ten Eleven
  • “Perpetuum Mobile,” Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Lori Mack and Jonathan McNicol contributed to this show.

For more than 25 years, the two-time Peabody Award-winning Faith Middleton Show has been widely recognized for fostering insightful, thought-provoking conversation. Faith Middleton offers her listeners some of the world's most fascinating people and subjects. The show has been inducted into the Connecticut Magazine Hall of Fame as "Best Local Talk Show".

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Federal funding is gone.

Congress has eliminated all funding for public media.

That means $2.1 million per year that Connecticut Public relied on to deliver you news, information, and entertainment programs you enjoyed is gone.

The future of public media is in your hands.

All donations are appreciated, but we ask in this moment you consider starting a monthly gift as a Sustainer to help replace what’s been lost.