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Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stoic Survivor Milking Time at Lovejoy Brook Farm About 40 years ago, farms were thick on the ground in Andover, a rural town in southern Vermont. Today, 75-year-old Lydia Ratcliff’s Lovejoy Brook Farm is the last working farm still in operation. But can it survive much longer? ThoughtCast’s Jenny Attiyeh grew up visiting Lydia each summer, listening to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The “Puzzle of Existence” with Jim Holt Jim Holt (photo: Michael Todd)In this ThoughtCast interview, science writer Jim Holt takes us on a jaunty tour of being and nothingess, existence and emptiness, quantum tunneling and the uncertainty principle. The author of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, Holt lends his wit to a dissection of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The “Puzzle of Existence” with Jim Holt Jim Holt (photo: Michael Todd) In this ThoughtCast interview, science writer Jim Holt takes us on a jaunty tour of being and nothingess, existence and emptiness, quantum tunneling and the uncertainty principle. The author of Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes, Holt lends his wit to a dissection of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dopamine Economy dopamine brain Wall Street on Drugs: What motivated these former masters of the universe? And why did they act like kindergartners? ThoughtCast’s Jenny Attiyeh speaks with James Poterba, the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT, and Jonah Lehrer, the author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” and “How We Decide”, as well as the writer and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dopamine Economy dopamine brain Wall Street on Drugs: What motivated these former masters of the universe? And why did they act like kindergartners? ThoughtCast’s Jenny Attiyeh speaks with James Poterba, the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT, and Jonah Lehrer, the author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” and “How We Decide”, as well as the writer and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide” Jonah Lehrer (photo credit: Lori Duff) Jonah Lehrer, the precocious author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, has come out with a new book called How We Decide. He spoke at the Harvard Book Store, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Click here to listen (28 minutes.) After his talk, ThoughtCast spoke with Lehrer briefly about the value of emotion in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Pits with James Poterba James Poterba What is the right expression to describe today’s economic nightmare? I’m sick of “mess” and “crisis” is too bland. What about “cesspool”? Well, I compromised with “pits” — feel free to add your own juicy descriptions in ThoughtCast’s comments section! Either way, I dived into the “pool” with MIT’s Mitsui Professor of Economics James [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Pits with James Poterba James Poterba What is the right expression to describe today’s economic nightmare? I’m sick of “mess” and “crisis” is too bland. What about “cesspool”? Well, I compromised with “pits” — feel free to add your own juicy descriptions in ThoughtCast’s comments section! Either way, I dived into the “pool” with MIT’s Mitsui Professor of Economics James [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity Note: Sadly, Sam Huntington died in late December of 2008, so in memory of him, I’ve moved this 2005 interview to the top of my pile of posts. This interview was broadcast twice on WGBH, in Boston. Sam Huntington The eminent and provocative political scientist and prolific author, talks with ThoughtCast about what he sees as the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New York Review turns 45! Note: this interview has been broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate, WCAI/WNAN. Robert Silvers (credit Melanie Flood) The venerable New York Review of Books was launched amidst a newspaper strike in the winter of 1963, and has continued unabated ever since. Devoted to intensive and nuanced coverage of politics, the arts, literature, science (and now movies [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn Note: this program was broadcast on the public radio stations WCAI/WNAN, the Cape and Islands affiliates of WGBH! Harvey Cox Simon Blackburn In this half-hour, ThoughtCast talks with two very different men - one founded on faith, the other on reason. Harvey Cox, the renowned Harvard Divinity School Professor and author of The Secular City and When Jesus [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn Harvey Cox Simon Blackburn In this half-hour, ThoughtCast talks with two very different men - one founded on faith, the other on reason. Harvey Cox, the renowned Harvard Divinity School Professor and author of The Secular City and When Jesus Came to Harvard, talks with ThoughtCast about his faith, and the religious resurgence taking place [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn Note: this program will soon be broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, the Cape and Islands affiliate of WGBH! Harvey Cox Simon Blackburn In this half-hour, ThoughtCast talks with two very different men - one founded on faith, the other on reason. Harvey Cox, the renowned Harvard Divinity School Professor and author of The Secular City and When Jesus Came to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas&Janet Malcolm! Gertrude & Alice (photo credit: Cecil Beaton) They were a strange pair: Gertrude Stein, the avant-garde writer, salonniere and collector of art and artists, and her lover and companion, the querulous Alice B. Toklas, standing beakishly in the background. But together they formed a whole. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, a new book by journalist Janet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & Janet Malcolm! Gertrude & Alice (photo credit: Cecil Beaton) They were a strange pair: Gertrude Stein, the avant-garde writer, salonniere and collector of art and artists, and her lover and companion, the querulous Alice B. Toklas, standing beakishly in the background. But together they formed a whole. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, a new book by journalist Janet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New York Review turns 45! Robert Silvers (credit Melanie Flood) The venerable New York Review of Books was launched amidst a newspaper strike in the winter of 1963, and has continued unabated ever since. Devoted to intensive and nuanced coverage of politics, the arts, literature, science (and now movies and the Internet!), the paper, as it’s called, is considered to be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Fiction Works— with James Wood This entry is part 21 of 6 in the series Talks@Harvard Book Store James Wood (photo credit: Cade Martin) James Wood, the sincere, somewhat old-fashioned, unpretentious yet high-minded New Yorker literary critic, spoke at the Harvard Book Store recently about his new book, How Fiction Works. Click here: to listen (30 minutes). Also… ThoughtCast will be interviewing Wood [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Fiction Works � with James Wood This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Talks@Harvard Book Store James Wood (photo credit: Cade Martin) James Wood, the sincere, somewhat old-fashioned, unpretentious yet high-minded New Yorker literary critic, spoke at the Harvard Book Store recently about his new book, How Fiction Works. Click here: to listen (30 minutes). Also… ThoughtCast will be interviewing Wood [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Radio goes Hollywood! Note: This piece has been mentioned on Current.org and the PRPD site — thanks for that! Public radio could easily be described as a smashing success story. Take NPR, for example. From its counter-cultural roots in the early 1970s, it has grown to become one of the most trusted sources of journalism in the United States. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Radio goes Hollywood! Public radio could easily be described as a smashing success story. Take NPR, for example. From its counter-cultural roots in the early 1970s, it has grown to become one of the most trusted sources of journalism in the United States. Although it still is accused of liberal bias, an equal number of liberals and conservatives [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Radio goes Hollywood! Note: This piece has been mentioned on Current.org and the PRPD site — thanks for that! Public radio could easily be described as a smashing success story. Take NPR, for example. From its counter-cultural roots in the early 1970s, it has grown to become one of the most trusted sources of journalism in the United States. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our American“Empire” with Niall Ferguson Note: This interview was broadcast on the public radio station WCVE in Richmond, VA. In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow in its footsteps. That [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our American �Empire� with Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow in its footsteps. That means it’s our job to form colonies in hot climates, for years on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our American �Empire� with Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow in its footsteps. That means it’s our job to form colonies in hot climates, for years on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI/WNAN and on WCVE in Richmond, VA. In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA. a now-old neologism! Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms – new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series NeologismsNote: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on�New Hampshire Public Radio on Sept. 30, 2008. a now-old neologism! Today�s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory � spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms � new words, or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series NeologismsNote: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on�New Hampshire Public Radio on Sept. 30, 2008. a now-old neologism! Today�s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory � spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms � new words, or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA. a now-old neologism! Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and neologisms – new words, or phrases. Take the word blog, for example, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Neologisms from the World of the Web Here are a few more thoughts on new words gleaned from life online — gathered at a Berkman Center conference on The Future of the Internet! Josh Marshall (credit: NY Times) Joshua Micah Marshall, who founded the influential site Talking Points Memo discusses the term “blogger”, a now old neologism that may have outgrown its usefulness, at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Search of Neologisms Berkman Center Neologisms are defined as new words or phrases (or new uses of a word or phrase). And what better place to find them than at a gathering of netizens (itself a neologism) steeped in the new world of the “net”. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our American �Empire� with Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow in its footsteps. That means it’s our job to form colonies in hot climates, for years [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our American �Empire� with Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconventional, and definitely controversial. He’s also a big fan of the British Empire — and wants the United States to follow in its footsteps. That means it’s our job to form colonies in hot climates, for years [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet! Note: this piece was broadcast on New Hampshire Public Radio and also on WDAV’s Artist Spotlight. Borromeo String Quartet (photo: Christian Steiner) Steve Reich is perhaps the preeminent composer living today. And one of his most heart-wrenching and affecting works is called Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape. It tells the story of Steve [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet! Note: this piece was broadcast on New Hampshire Public Radio and also on WDAV’s Artist Spotlight. Borromeo String Quartet (photo: Christian Steiner) Steve Reich is perhaps the preeminent composer living today. And one of his most heart-wrenching and affecting works is called Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape. It tells the story of Steve [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet! Note: this piece was broadcast on New Hampshire Public Radio and also on WDAV’s Artist Spotlight. Borromeo String Quartet (photo: Christian Steiner) Steve Reich is perhaps the preeminent composer living today. And one of his most heart-wrenching and affecting works is called Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape. It tells the story of Steve [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet! Borromeo String Quartet (photo by Christian Steiner) At a recent festival for the eminent contemporary composer Steve Reich at the New England Conservatory in Boston, the Borromeo String Quartet, currently the �faculty string quartet in residence� there, performed Reich’s notoriously difficult Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape. It tells the story of Steve Reich’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harvard Book Store author talks with Jay Allison and Mark Kramer Jay Allison and Mark Kramer Jay Allison, the host of “This I Believe” on NPR, and Mark Kramer, the founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism, banded together at the Harvard Book Store to talk about Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide, a selection of essays from Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of �Rock� Note: this piece was broadcast on WMUB, an NPR station in Oxford, Ohio. Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer! Tune in for a quick romp through the origins of the word — with Berklee College [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of “Rock” Note: this piece was broadcast on WMUB, an NPR station in Oxford, Ohio. Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer! Tune in for a quick romp through the origins of the word — with Berklee College [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of �Rock� Note: this piece was broadcast on WMUB, an NPR station in Oxford, Ohio. Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer! Tune in for a quick romp through the origins of the word — with Berklee College [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of “Rock” Note: this piece was broadcast on WMUB, an NPR station in Oxford, Ohio. Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer! Tune in for a quick romp through the origins of the word — with Berklee College [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of �Rock� Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer! Tune in for a quick romp through the origins of the word — with Berklee College of Music professor Ken Zambello. (And thanks to Pam Scrutton and Planning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of�Rock� Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer! Tune in for a quick romp through the origins of the word — with Berklee College of Music professor Ken Zambello. (And thanks to Pam Scrutton and Planning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Lightman Alan Lightman Alan Lightman, the MIT physicist and best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams, is a man of unusual ability. Talented in both the sciences and the arts, he’s both left- and right-brained, a condition that confers challenges as well as benefits. Lightman has recently come out with a new book which explores these two realms - and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art and Science with Alan Lightman Alan Lightman Alan Lightman, the MIT physicist and best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams, is a man of unusual ability. Talented in both the sciences and the arts, he’s both left- and right-brained, a condition that confers challenges as well as benefits. Lightman has recently come out with a new book which explores these two realms - and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen and the Art of Writing - with Natalie Goldberg Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, the Cape and Islands affiliate of WGBH. It also received a 5-star review on PRX! Natalie Goldberg (self-portrait) Natalie Goldberg, the well-known painter, writer and writing teacher, who wrote the best-seller on how to write called Writing Down the Bones, is also a Zen practitioner, who applies the lessons of Zen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen and the Art of Writing - with Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg (self-portrait) Natalie Goldberg, the well-known painter, writer and writing teacher, who wrote the best-seller on how to write called Writing Down the Bones, is also a Zen practitioner, who applies the lessons of Zen Buddhism to her writing, and her life. This is a complex brew, but in this ThoughtCast interview, which took place in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg (self-portrait) Natalie Goldberg, the well-known painter, writer and writing teacher, who wrote the best-seller on how to write called Writing Down the Bones, is also a Zen practitioner, who applies the lessons of Zen Buddhism to her writing, and her life. This is a complex brew, but in this ThoughtCast interview, which took place in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Europe Alberto Alesina Whither the European Union? This is not a question we (in America) often ask ourselves. But perhaps we should. As we now live in an era of borderless commerce - and threats - it might be wise for us to know a bit more about how our key ally, Europe, is faring. Is the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Europe - with Alberto Alesina Alberto Alesina Whither the European Union? This is not a question we (in America) often ask ourselves. But perhaps we should. As we now live in an era of borderless commerce - and threats - it might be wise for us to know a bit more about how our key ally, Europe, is faring. Is the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art & Science with Alan Lightman Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, the Cape and Islands affiliate of WGBH. Alan Lightman Alan Lightman, the MIT physicist and best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams, is a man of unusual ability. Talented in both the sciences and the arts, he’s both left- and right-brained, a condition that confers challenges as well as benefits. Lightman has recently [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual Public -- Or Private? Who are our public intellectuals today? What purpose are they meant to serve, and are they in fact serving it — or us? How public are they, and how accountable? Is there a venue for such people to even be heard — and if so, who would bother to listen? Are they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual Download Jack Beatty Public — Or Private? Who are our public intellectuals today? What purpose are they meant to serve, and are they in fact serving it — or us? How public are they, and how accountable? Is there a venue for such people to even be heard — and if so, who would bother to listen? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual Note: this interview was reviewed on PRX and earned 4 stars! And it will soon be broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, the Cape and Islands affiliate of WGBH. Public -- Or Private? Who are our public intellectuals today? What purpose are they meant to serve, and are they in fact serving it — or us? How public are they, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual Public — Or Private? Who are our public intellectuals today? What purpose are they meant to serve, and are they in fact serving it — or us? How public are they, and how accountable? Is there a venue for such people to even be heard — and if so, who would bother to listen? Are they [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, an affiliate of WGBH, Boston. Kwame Anthony Appiah (Photo: Greg Martin) Princeton Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses cosmopolitanism on ThoughtCast! Born in England and raised in Ghana, Appiah is half English and half African. And perhaps because of this, he’s fascinated with the concept of identity, and the power it wields [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Download Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah (Photo: Denise Applewhite) Princeton Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses cosmopolitanism on ThoughtCast! Born in England and raised in Ghana, Appiah is half English and half African. And perhaps because of this, he’s fascinated with the concept of identity, and the power it wields over people. But rather than wage identity politics, Appiah encourages [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH’s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Alex Vilenkin Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch, and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of Our Universe among other timely topics� Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH’s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Alex Vilenkin Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch, and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of Our Universe among other timely topics� Download Alex Vilenkin Alex Vilenkin Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch, and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But if it’s the multiverse, that infinitely expanding, infinitely varied and infinitely populated sea [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH’s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Alex Vilenkin Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch, and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of Our Universe among other timely topics� Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH’s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Alex Vilenkin Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you’re talking about, well, it’s called the big crunch, and it’s going to be hot hot hot! But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Media Maverick Jay Allison This entry is part 26 of 6 in the series Talks@Harvard Book StoreNote: this program was broadcast on WGBH’s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Jay Allison Jay Allison has egalitarian instincts. He’s a maverick, who’s made it his mission to put the “public” back into public media. As an independent producer of stellar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Media Maverick Jay Allison This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Talks@Harvard Book StoreNote: this program was broadcast on WGBH’s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Jay Allison Jay Allison has egalitarian instincts. He’s a maverick, who’s made it his mission to put the “public” back into public media. As an independent producer of stellar [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Allison Download Jay AllisonJay AllisonJay Allison has egalitarian instincts. He’s a maverick, who’s made it his mission to put the “public” back into public media. As an independent producer of stellar public radio -and television - Jay’s been able to work outside the system, and then change the system. Take This I Believe for example. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Allison Download Jay AllisonJay AllisonJay Allison has egalitarian instincts. He’s a maverick, who’s made it his mission to put the “public” back into public media. As an independent producer of stellar public radio -and television - Jay’s been able to work outside the system, and then change the system. Take This I Believe for example. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Hauser on �Moral Minds� Download Marc HauserMarc Hauser(Photo: Lilan Hauser)The provocative Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser recently spoke about “The Evolution of Our Moral Intuitions” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.This ThoughtCast interview with Hauser serves as a good “first course” — but to get to the meat and potatoes, check out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Hauser on �Moral Minds� Download Marc HauserMarc Hauser(Photo: Lilan Hauser)The provocative Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser recently spoke about “The Evolution of Our Moral Intuitions” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.This ThoughtCast interview with Hauser serves as a good “first course” — but to get to the meat and potatoes, check out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astrophysics in Cambridge � at the Planetarium! Download AstrophysicsNoreen GriceAs part of the Cambridge Science Festival, Noreen Grice, the operations coordinator of the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston, hosted a series of presentations that feature new research in astrophysics taking place in Cambridge. Specifically, she highlighted the work of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in Kendall Square, two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astrophysics in Cambridge � at the Planetarium! Download AstrophysicsNoreen GriceAs part of the Cambridge Science Festival, Noreen Grice, the operations coordinator of the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston, hosted a series of presentations that feature new research in astrophysics taking place in Cambridge. Specifically, she highlighted the work of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in Kendall Square, two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astrophysics in Cambridge � at the Planetarium! Download AstrophysicsNoreen GriceAs part of the Cambridge Science Festival, Noreen Grice, the operations coordinator of the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston, hosted a series of presentations that feature new research in astrophysics taking place in Cambridge. Specifically, she highlighted the work of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in Kendall Square, two [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Hauser on �Moral Minds� Note: This interview was broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, and is also featured on WGBH’s Science Luminaries series, as part of WGBH Science City. Marc Hauser (Photo: Lilan Hauser) The provocative Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser recently spoke about “The Evolution of Our Moral Intuitions” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.This ThoughtCast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds” Marc Hauser Note: This interview was broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, and is also featured on WGBH’s Science Luminaries series, as part of WGBH Science City. The provocative Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser recently spoke about “The Evolution of Our Moral Intuitions” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. This ThoughtCast interview with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doc Searls! Doc Searls Say the word “Doc” and the technorati cognoscenti know exactly who you’re talking about. Doc Searls is the well-known blogger and co-author of the prescient “Cluetrain Manifesto,” which explains how the Internet has transformed corporate marketing. 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He’s an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The BBC and CBC weigh in� Download Paul BrannanPaul BrannanPaul Brannan, the Deputy Editor of BBC News Interactive, offers a candid assessment of the state of public broadcasting here in the US - and back home in London. It seems the BBC’s way ahead of us, as Paul, who spoke at the 2007 Integrated Media Association Conference here, explains. He’s an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Questions: Redux Download Standard PodcastThere’s more…Click here: for CPB’s Sondra Russell, WGBH’s Ron Bachman and Chad Davis of KNME. (1:53 minutes).Click here: for Adam Rubin of Public Interactive, NHPR’s Jon Greenberg and Patrick Foster with Public Broadcasting Atlanta. (1:27 minutes).Click here: for Adrianne Mathiowetz of PRX, KUOW’s Elizabeth Hovantz and Julia Schrenkler with MPR. 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But Doug is hardly resting on his laurels, as you’ll hear in this ThoughtCast interview. (Oh [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Kaye at the IMA Download Doug KayeDoug KayeDoug Kaye, who spoke at the 2007 Integrated Media Association conference, is the co-founder of the pioneering podcast on information technology called IT Conversations, the CTO of GigaVox Media, and the CEO of the Conversations Network. But Doug is hardly resting on his laurels, as you’ll hear in this ThoughtCast interview. (Oh [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast 2007 Download Henry JenkinsHenry JenkinsHenry Jenkins, director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, talks with ThoughtCast about the path from “participatory culture” to “participatory democracy.” He was the keynote speaker for this year’s Beyond Broadcast conference, held Feb. 24 at MIT. 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Following up on these remarks, he speaks with ThoughtCast about the definition - and purpose - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Media � are we there yet? Download Henry BectonHenry Becton (courtesy WGBH)WGBH President Henry Becton inaugurated this year’s Integrated Media Association conference on Tuesday with a talk on the strengths and weaknesses of public broadcasting today, during this delicate yet transformative stage of its development. Following up on these remarks, he speaks with ThoughtCast about the definition - and purpose - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economist Amartya Sen on �Identity and Violence� Note: this interview was broadcast Jan. 21 at 10:30 pm on WGBH. To read a review of this program, click here: Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about “Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.” This new book examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economist Amartya Sen on �Identity and Violence� Download Standard PodcastAmartya SenAmartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about “Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.”This new book examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key trait — our ethnicity, or religion, for example — to the exclusion of all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economist Amartya Sen on �Identity and Violence� Note: this interview was broadcast Jan. 21 at 10:30 pm on WGBH. To read a review of this program, click here: Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about “Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.” This new book examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economist Amartya Sen on “Identity and Violence” Note: this interview was broadcast Jan. 21 at 10:30 pm on WGBH. To read a review of this program, click here: Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about “Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.” This new book examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 5 This is the final series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia. Maria Thomas is the VP and general manager of NPR digital media. As such, she oversees the development and distribution of NPR content to the Internet, mobile phones and the like. Need I say more? Click here: (3 minutes) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah Download Alan DershowitzNote: this interview was rebroadcast Jan. 21 at 10 pm on WGBH.It has also aired on WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU.Alan DershowitzThe controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks with ThoughtCast about his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways”, as well as his views on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah Download Alan DershowitzNote: this interview was rebroadcast Jan. 21 at 10 pm on WGBH.It has also aired on WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU.Alan DershowitzThe controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks with ThoughtCast about his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways”, as well as his views on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah Download Alan DershowitzNote: this interview was rebroadcast Jan. 21 at 10 pm on WGBH.It has also aired on WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU.Alan DershowitzThe controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks with ThoughtCast about his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways”, as well as his views on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah Download Standard PodcastNote: This interview has been broadcast on WGBH, WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU.Alan DershowitzThe controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks about his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways”, as well as his views on the Israeli-Palestinian-Hezbollah conflict, torture, human rights and our ‘war on terror.’ [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 4 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia.Todd Mundt is one of the Young Turks in public media — he even has an influential blog. Todd recently left Michigan Public Media to take a job in his home state at Iowa Public Media. I’d keep your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 4 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia.Todd Mundt is one of the Young Turks in public media — he even has an influential blog. Todd recently left Michigan Public Media to take a job in his home state at Iowa Public Media. I’d keep your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 4 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia. Todd Mundt is one of the Young Turks in public media — he even has an influential blog. Todd recently left Michigan Public Media to take a job in his home state at Iowa Public Media. I’d keep your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference, in Philadelphia, was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st Century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist Download Standard PodcastWGBH broadcast this interview on Arts and Ideas, and WCAI/WNAN did so as well!Lisa RandallProfessor Randall is a theoretical particle physicist who sees past the rest of us to a world of extra dimensions and parallel universes. Hers is a world of warped geometry, sink-holes and branes � a world that fills glaring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah (Photo: Greg Martin) Princeton Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses cosmopolitanism on ThoughtCast! Born in England and raised in Ghana, Appiah is half English and half African. And perhaps because of this, he’s fascinated with the concept of identity, and the power it wields over people. But rather than wage identity politics, Appiah encourages us instead [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 3 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia. Liliane Landor is the commanding editor of news and current affairs at the BBC World Service. And as a member of the BBC’s Creative Future for journalism team, she’s already devoted a good deal of time to the questions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 3 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia.Liliane Landor is the commanding editor of news and current affairs at the BBC World Service. And as a member of the BBC’s Creative Future for journalism team, she’s already devoted a good deal of time to the questions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 3 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia.Liliane Landor is the commanding editor of news and current affairs at the BBC World Service. And as a member of the BBC’s Creative Future for journalism team, she’s already devoted a good deal of time to the questions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Blackburn, philosopher Download Standard PodcastSimon BlackburnSimon Blackburn is the Cambridge University philosopher and author, most recently, of “Truth: A Guide.” Blackburn has also penned the well-regarded (and best-selling) books “Think” and “Being Good.” And he’s also responsible for “The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy,” and a text called “Lust”!!Tune in tohear him talk about why philosophy is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virgil�s �Georgics� Download Standard PodcastDavid FerryNoted Cambridge poet David Ferry has recently translated Virgil’s Georgics, and on ThoughtCast he joins Virgil scholar Richard Thomas, the chair of Harvard’s Classics Dept., for a detailed examination of this beautiful and insufficiently known poem. 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Certainly he’s more circumspect than many of his colleagues when it comes to the bells and whistles [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 2 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia.George Boosey, the program director for North Carolina Public Radio, is a bigwig in public broadcasting. Might he also be a contrarian? Certainly he’s more circumspect than many of his colleagues when it comes to the bells and whistles [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 2 This is a continuing series of interviews conducted at the Public Radio Program Directors conference in Philadelphia.George Boosey, the program director for North Carolina Public Radio, is a bigwig in public broadcasting. Might he also be a contrarian? 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Certainly he’s more circumspect than many of his colleagues when it comes to the bells and whistles [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peabody Sisters Download Standard PodcastNote: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, on “Arts and Ideas.” Click here for details.Megan MarshallAuthor Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabody sisters - Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia - who were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the early to mid 19th [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Huntington Download Standard PodcastNote: This interview was broadcast on Yellowstone Pubic Radio and on WGBH radio. Click here for details!Sam HuntingtonThe eminent and provocative political scientist and prolific author, talks about what he sees as the threat to America’s national identity (and its founding ‘Anglo-Protestant’ culture) posed by large numbers of unassimilated Hispanics, legal or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference in Philadelphia was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st Century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference in Philadelphia was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st Century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer Download Standard PodcastNote: this interview was broadcast on WCAI/WNAN on Nov. 12, 2006 in honor of Veterans Day.Carol BundyAt a time when the country’s attention is focused on the ever-expanding list of American war dead, Carol Bundy’s biography of a Union officer who sacrifices his life in the Civil War is eerily apt.Carol’s book [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Download Standard PodcastBranching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick ThoughtCast interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Download Standard PodcastBranching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David Download Standard PodcastNote: WCAI and WNAN, the Cape and Islands public radio channels, broadcast this interview, as did Yellowstone Public Radio!Robert PinskyFormer poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his �Life of David.�Is David a legend? 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Alan Dershowitz The controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks with ThoughtCast about his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ThoughtCast Shorts: Bookmark Now Kevin Smokler Kevin Smokler, the author, critic and literary blogger, has recently edited a book of essays called “Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times.” Its aim is to remind the world of the relevance of reading, eh, books. Not just summaries of books, or book reviews, or headlines about books, but the real thing. No matter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ThoughtCast Shorts: Bookmark Now Kevin SmoklerKevin Smokler, the author, critic and literary blogger, has recently edited a book of essays called “Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times.” Its aim is to remind the world of the relevance of reading, eh, books. Not just summaries of books, or book reviews, or headlines about books, but the real thing. No matter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Blackburn, philosopher Simon Blackburn Simon Blackburn is the Cambridge University philosopher and author, most recently, of “Truth: A Guide.” Blackburn has also penned the well-regarded (and best-selling) books “Think” and “Being Good.” And he’s also responsible for “The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy,” and a text called “Lust”!! Tune in to hear him talk about why philosophy is good - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching OutI attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Branching Out I attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director of the Center for Social Media, and a professor at the School of Communication at American University, in Washington, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind IS THIS US?I will be attending the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School May 12th and and 13th and here are some of the participants I have my eye on… I’ll be interviewing Terry Heaton, the president of DONATA Communications, Donna Liu, who founded The University Channel and Todd Mundt, the Content Director [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist WGBH will be broadcasting this interview on Arts and Ideas, at 10 pm on August 27th! 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Hers is a world of warped geometry, sink-holes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall Professor Randall is a theoretical particle physicist who sees past the rest of us to a world of extra dimensions and parallel universes. Hers is a world of warped geometry, sink-holes and branes � a world that fills glaring gaps in current thinking, and can finally explain why gravity is so �weak�! Now while [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David Note: WCAI and WNAN, the Cape and Islands public radio channels, broadcast this interview, as did Yellowstone Public Radio! Robert Pinsky Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his “Life of David.” Is David a legend? A real, flesh and blood warrior who killed Goliath, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David Robert Pinsky Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his “Life of David.” Is David a legend? A real, flesh and blood warrior who killed Goliath, and united the 12 Jewish tribes into one nation? Robert Pinsky delves into these questions, and into David’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peabody Sisters Megan MarshallAuthor Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabody sisters - Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia - who were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the early to mid 19th century. Elizabeth, the oldest, was intellectually precocious, learning Hebrew as a child so she could read the Old [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peabody Sisters Megan MarshallAuthor Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabodysisters - Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia - who were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the early to mid 19th century.Elizabeth, the oldest, was intellectually precocious, learning Hebrew as a child so she could read the Old [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virgil�s Georgics Noted Cambridge poet David Ferry has recently translated Virgil’s Georgics, and he joins Virgil scholar Richard Thomas, the chair of Harvard’s Classics Department, for a detailed examination of this beautiful and insufficiently known poem. It is said to have taken Virgil 7 years to write, from about 36 to 29 B.C. As such, the Georgics [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peabody Sisters - with biographer Megan Marshall Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, on “Arts and Ideas.” Click here for details. Megan Marshall Author Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabody sisters - Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia - who were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the early to mid 19th century. Elizabeth, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peabody Sisters - with biographer Megan Marshall Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, on “Arts and Ideas.” Click here for details. Megan Marshall Author Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabody sisters - Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia - who were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the early to mid 19th century. Elizabeth, the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Web 2.0 and beyond � a conversation Note: this program was broadcast on KYOU, open source radio. Check it out! Three Internet gurus talk with ThoughtCast about the “social architecture” of the web, and how it might bring people together, and/or pull them apart! The four of us spoke following a daylong conference on the subject. David Weinberger David Weinberger is a fellow at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer Note: this ThoughtCast interview was broadcast on WCAI/WNAN on Nov. 12, 2006 in honor of Veterans Day. Carol Bundy At a time when the country’s attention is focused on the ever-expanding list of American war dead, Carol Bundy’s biography of a Union officer who sacrifices his life in the Civil War is eerily apt. Carol’s book tells [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carol Bundy This first time Cambridge author has written the first biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. since Edward Emerson’s version in the early 20th century. And Carol has the added insight of being Lowell’s great-great-great niece!Lowell, a young Union cavalry officer, embodied the promise of his generation. Philosophical and staunchly Abolitionist, Lowell was also a brilliant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Web 2.0 and beyond � a conversation Three Internet gurus talk with ThoughtCast about the “social architecture” of the web, and how it might bring people together, and/or pull them apart! The four of us spoke following a daylong conference on the subject. David Weinberger is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Huntington � on Immigration and the American Identity Note: This interview was broadcast on Yellowstone Pubic Radio and on WGBH radio. Click here for details! Sam Huntington The eminent and provocative political scientist and prolific author, talks with ThoughtCast about what he sees as the threat to America’s national identity (and its founding ‘Anglo-Protestant’ culture) posed by large numbers of unassimilated Hispanics, legal or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Huntington The eminent and provocative political scientist and prolific author, talks about what he sees as the threat to America’s national identity (and its founding ‘Anglo-Protestant’ culture) posed by large numbers of unassimilated Hispanics, legal or otherwise, living in the United States. His most recent book: “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Huntington The eminent and provocative political scientist and prolific author, talks about what he sees as the threat to America’s national identity (and its founding ‘Anglo-Protestant’ culture) posed by large numbers of unassimilated Hispanics, legal or otherwise, living in the United States. His most recent book: “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virgil�s Georgics Note: This program was broadcast on April 8th 2007 on WGBH. Click here to read a review of the interview on PRX. David Ferry Noted Cambridge poet David Ferry has recently translated Virgil’s Georgics, and on ThoughtCast he joins Virgil scholar Richard Thomas, the chair of Harvard’s Classics Dept., for a detailed examination of this beautiful and insufficiently [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virgil’s Georgics Note: This program was broadcast on April 8th 2007 on WGBH. Click here to read a review of the interview on PRX. David Ferry Noted Cambridge poet David Ferry has recently translated Virgil’s Georgics, and on ThoughtCast he joins Virgil scholar Richard Thomas, the chair of Harvard’s Classics Dept., for a detailed examination of this beautiful and insufficiently [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic Ilan Stavans (Photo by Frank Ward) In honor of Hispanic History Month, WGBH radio, an NPR station in Boston, broadcast this ThoughtCast interview with Ilan Stavans twice. It was also picked up by KRZA, an NPR station in Alamosa, Colorado, and Georgia Public Broadcasting. Click here for details Ilan Stavans, the renowned critic of Latino and Latin [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic Download Standard PodcastIlan Stavans(Photo by Frank Ward)In honor of Hispanic History Month, WGBH radio, an NPR station in Boston, broadcast my interview with Ilan Stavans on Sept. 18th at 10:30 p.m. It was also picked up by KRZA, an NPR station in Alamosa, Colorado.Click here for detailsIlan Stavans, the renowned critic of Latino and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic Download Standard PodcastIlan Stavans(Photo by Frank Ward)In honor of Hispanic History Month, WGBH radio, an NPR station in Boston, broadcast my interview with Ilan Stavans on Sept. 18th at 10:30 p.m. It was also picked up by KRZA, an NPR station in Alamosa, Colorado.Click here for detailsIlan Stavans, the renowned critic of Latino and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic In honor of Hispanic History Month, WGBH radio will be broadcasting my interview with Ilan Stavans on Sept. 18th at 10:30 p.m.Click here for details Ilan Stavans, the renowned critic of Latino and Latin American literature and culture, and the author of the controversial dictionary, “Spanglish,” is also a perpetual outsider. A Mexican-Jewish-American, Ilan lives [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ThoughtCast Shorts: Bookmark Now Download Standard PodcastKevin SmoklerKevin Smokler, the author, critic and literary blogger, has recently edited a book of essays called “Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times.” Its aim is to remind the world of the relevance of reading, eh, books. Not just summaries of books, or book reviews, or headlines about books, but the real thing. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carol Bundy This first time Cambridge author has written the first biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. since Edward Emerson’s version in the early 20th century. And Carol has the added insight of being Lowell’s great-great-great niece!Lowell, a young Union cavalry officer, embodied the promise of his generation. Philosophical and staunchly Abolitionist, Lowell was also a brilliant [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ThoughtCast author talks: David Ferry on Virgil�s �Georgics� Download Standard PodcastVirgilA Reading with David Ferry, discussing his translation of Virgil�s Georgics. This recording was made at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, in May 2005. For more information about Harvard Book Store’s award-winning author series, visit www.harvard.com. The paperback of Virgil’s Georgics, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is now available.Click here: for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ThoughtCast author talks: David Ferry on Virgil�s �Georgics� Download Standard PodcastVirgilA Reading with David Ferry, discussing his translation of Virgil�s Georgics. This recording was made at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, in May 2005. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harvard book store author talks: Carol Bundy Download Standard PodcastCambridge author Carol Bundy’s first book is called “The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-1864″. It’s about her great-great-great uncle, who fought and died in the Civil War.Lowell was a reformer, a cavalryman, and perhaps also a dreamer.Click here to hear Bundy’s talk at the Harvard Book [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Gillmor on ThoughtCast Download Standard PodcastIS THIS US?Dan Gillmor, the influential technology writer and blogger, has recently founded a new initiative called The Center for Citizen Media. Its purpose: to assist in the formation of citizen journalism and other forms of grassroots media. Gillmor, who is now a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virgil�s Georgics Download Virgil's GeorgicsNote: This program was broadcast on April 8th 2007 on WGBH. Click here to read a review of the interview on PRX. David Ferry Noted Cambridge poet David Ferry has recently translated Virgil’s Georgics, and on ThoughtCast he joins Virgil scholar Richard Thomas, the chair of Harvard’s Classics Dept., for a detailed examination of this beautiful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website