Texting While Driving

Today's topic on the Diane Rhem Show was texting and driving. It's very dangerous to text while driving. About 1.2 million driving accidents in the States come from phone use and 280,000 come from texting. A study showed that 3,000 teens die a year for texting. 

During the show, they took a pole and that showed 35% say they read and respond to text messages while driving. And 42% of who experienced accident or close has not changed their behavior. 

Those who texting drivers are close to killers. If you have a habit to texting while driving, you have to change the behavior  immediately. 

The Bluest Eye

Today's topic on The DR Show was a book titled The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison. The book was published in 1970's and the author later won the Nobel literature prize. 

I'm not familiar with the book and the author. According to the show, the story is about a black girl who faces domestic violence, sex abuse, self hate and other tragedies. Some schools and libraries though about the book as a pornography so that they were not allowed to read it. Even now some schools ban it form their libraries. 

I've got interested in the story, so I think I'll read it someday. 

The Virgin Way

Today, The Dyane Rhem Show involved Sir. Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, as a guest. 

He talked with Diane a lot of topics during the one hour show. I was really excited to listen to the conversation. 

He talked about how he dropped out high school at age 16, and launched his own business. How he started the wonderful aviation company, or what he thinks about recent world problems such as huge conflict in Syria and the Ebora pandemic.

One of the most impressive things for me  in his idea was that listening to others is more important than speaking to others. He has 70,000 workers in his empire, and even though he's been busy, he is trying to listen to their thoughts as much as he can. Of course he listens to his customers' voice, too. I think that made him a successful business person. 

Google Hangout

I listened to The Diane Rehm Show in this morning. The studio is in Washington, D.C. Today's guest, a former Google executive, was in New York. 

In the show, before they took a short break, Diane said, "we are talking on Skype. We will take a short break and right back soon."

After the break, she apologized for making a mistake. They were talking on Google Hangout because the guest was a former Google executive. 

Of course he forgive her with laughing.