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Road trip! You haven't seen this before, at least not in Daybreak. A few months back, Neal Agarwal, a web developer known for his online games, launched Internet Roadtrip—or what a tech writer at the time called a MMORTG (massive multiplayer online road trip game). At any one time, hundreds of people are on it, voting on where a car should go—and which radio station to listen to along the way. It began in Boston, passed through Maine, then up into Canada to (eventually) way the heck up there in Labrador. Who knows where it is now?"If you have fish photos, I'm swiping left." A while back, the fantastic NHPR podcast Outside/In did an episode on online dating and how de rigueur it had become on the New Hampshire scene to be outdoorsy -- or is that outdoorsesque? "Eighty percent of profiles, the first thing you see is hiking," says one guy. "Makes me wonder how there aren't massive traffic jams of human beings on every mountain in New Hampshire every weekend." Oh, and also, guys posing with fish. And women, as that first line suggests, who aren't interested in guys who fish. It's a dating jungle out there.SPONSORED: Tickets are going fast for the Trumbull Hall Troupe's SIX: the Musical—Teen Edition. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor queens to pop icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st-century girl power! This is the global sensation that everyone is losing their heads over: a full-length adaptation of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ international phenomenon SIX, modified for teen actors and family audiences. At the Briggs Opera House Aug. 15-17. Sponsored by Trumbull Hall Troupe.Bears holding down a job. When grizzly bears out west get into trouble—breaking into cars, ransacking cabins—if they're lucky they get taken in by the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, MT. Which, it turns out, doesn't just take care of grizzlies that for one reason or another can't stay in the wild; it also sets them to work testing containers to see if they're bear-proof. Coolers, bike panniers, backpacking canisters, trash dumpsters—all get sent in by manufacturers, writes Emma Walker in Outside, filled with dry dog food, fish, honey, peanut butter and the like, and then handed over to the bears. Today's Wordbreak. With a word from the regional news.
Today, we'll turn to Senegalese griot and kora player Seckou Keita (who now lives in London), the BBC Concert Orchestra, and renowned cellist Abel Selaocoe
off Keita's recent album,
African Rhapsodies
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See you Wednesday.
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