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Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop Updated: 2011-11-09 03:31:07 Description: Charles McGlinchy In 1861 in Clonmany, on the Inishowen peninsula in the far north of County Donegal Ireland, Charles McGlinchy was born. His was a windblown, rough world, wracked with beauty and hardship. A weaver by trade, and a bachelor, in his ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Louis Menand, John Summers and Dan Aaron take on Dwight MacDonald Updated: 2011-10-25 02:42:58 Description: Louis Menand Back in the day when Dwight MacDonald was a household name (on the Upper West Side, at least) his critique of “middlebrow” American culture, and its inflated self-regard, singed eyebrows. Today, do his arguments still sti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop Updated: 2011-07-09 03:31:07 Description: Charles McGlinchy In 1861 in Clonmany, on the Inishowen peninsula in the far north of County Donegal Ireland, Charles McGlinchy was born. His was a windblown, rough world, wracked with beauty and hardship. A weaver by trade, and a bachelor, in his ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Faculty Insight: Honor and Fair Play in Homer’s Iliad Updated: 2011-06-13 14:32:47 Description: In this fifth installment of Faculty Insight, produced in partnership with Harvard University Extension School, ThoughtCast speaks with the esteemed Harvard classicist Gregory Nagy about one of the earliest and greatest legends of all time: Homer...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity Updated: 2011-04-11 04:51:34 Description: Tom Perrotta, the author of Little Children, Election, The Abstinence Teacher and the upcoming novel The Leftovers, speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascinates, irritates and inspires him: Flannery O’Connor. Flannery O'Connor in he...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Creativity and Madness – with Shelley Carson Updated: 2011-03-05 16:42:56 Description: Faculty Insight is produced in partnership with Harvard University Extension School. This fourth interview of the series is with Shelley Carson, an associate of Harvard University’s Department of Psychology, a lecturer at Harvard Extension School, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson Updated: 2011-02-04 04:48:43 Description: Emily Dickinson When Helen Vendler was only 13, the future poetry critic and Harvard professor memorized several of Emily Dickinson’s more famous poems. They’ve stayed with her over the years, and today, she talks with ThoughtCast...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan Updated: 2011-01-01 07:56:39 Description: Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! The endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is probably our closest cetacean neighbor. There are only about 350 of them in total, and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan Updated: 2011-01-01 07:56:39 Description: Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! The endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is probably our closest cetacean neighbor. There are only about 350 of them in total, and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Faculty Insight: Islam in the West – a clash of civilizations? Updated: 2010-12-17 06:28:15 Description: Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! Faculty Insight is produced in partnership with Harvard University Extension School. This third interview of the series is with Joce...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic Updated: 2010-06-26 22:27:08 Description: Note: This interview with Maureen Murray was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! Meet the patient, stoic Blanding’s Turtle, who arrived with a huge hole in her shell, yet managed to lay ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Coral reefs, hermit crabs and tube worms with Randi Rotjan Updated: 2010-04-26 08:42:46 Description: Note: This interview will be broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! The Cambridge Science Festival returns this week with Inspiring Minds: Meet Women in Science, a program at the Museum of Science t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New England Poetry Club Prizewinner Richard Hoffman Updated: 2010-04-04 22:08:13 Description: Richard Hoffman The New England Poetry Club is apparently the oldest poetry reading series in the country. It was founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost and Conrad Aiken. This spring, it awarded its Sheila Motton Prize to Richard Hoffman f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul Updated: 2010-01-31 00:33:06 Description: Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture! Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein’s latest work, called 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, is perhaps best described as a hybr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Conversation with Los Angeles Impresario Ernest Fleischmann Updated: 2009-12-15 17:39:10 Description: Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, and was part of Classical KUSC ‘s A Tribute to Ernest, broadcast live from Walt Disney Concert Hall on 3/29/11. Ernest Fleischmann Ernest Fleisch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The “New Biology” with Steven Pinker, Noga Arikha & Melvin Konner Updated: 2009-11-28 00:17:51 Description: Brave New World? The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University recently held a panel discussion on “The New Biology and the Self”, an apt topic for the likes of Steven Pinker, the Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Pro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The “Puzzle of Existence” with Jim Holt Updated: 2009-07-25 20:59:51 Description: Note: this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! Jim Holt (photo: Michael Todd) In this ThoughtCast interview, science writer Jim Holt takes us on a jaunty tour of being and nothingness, existen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide” Updated: 2009-07-20 06:05:08 Description: Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH in Boston as well as on the WGBH Cape and Islands affiliate WCAI/WNAN! Jonah Lehrer (photo credit: Lori Duff) Jonah Lehrer, the precocious author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, has come out with a new b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Dopamine Economy Updated: 2009-04-07 21:17:40 Description: Note: this story was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! dopamine brain Wall Street on Drugs: What motivated these former masters of the universe? And why did they act like kindergartners? ThoughtCast’...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Architects Nader Tehrani and Robert Campbell @ CCAE Updated: 2009-03-21 02:39:59 Description: Nader Tehrani The Cambridge Center for Adult Education recently hosted a talk with the architect Nader Tehrani (an associate professor of architecture at MIT, and the co-founder of the influential Boston-based architecture and design firm Offi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Economic Pits with James Poterba Updated: 2009-02-23 20:45:13 Description: Note: this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! James Poterba What is the right expression to describe today’s economic nightmare? I’m sick of “mess” and “crisis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity Updated: 2009-01-22 00:24:08 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The New York Review turns 45! Updated: 2008-12-09 13:10:35 Description: Note: this interview has been picked up by the public radio station WGBH, in Boston, and its sister stations WCAI and WNAN. Robert Silvers (credit Melanie Flood) The venerable New York Review of Books was launched amidst a newspaper strike in th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & Janet Malcolm! Updated: 2008-12-04 02:23:00 Description: stein-toklas 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 forme...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD How Fiction Works — with James Wood Updated: 2008-11-02 07:06:03 Description: jameswood 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… ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Public Radio goes Hollywood! Updated: 2008-10-08 18:52:40 Description: Note: This piece has been picked up by KYOU Radio, in San Francisco, and it’s also been mentioned on Current.org and the PRPD site — thanks for that! PRPD Public radio could easily be described as a smashing success story. Take NPR, f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson Updated: 2008-07-23 21:28:08 Description: Note: This interview has been picked up by the public radio stations WGBH, in Boston, its affiliates WCAI and WNAN, and WCVE in Richmond, VA. Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It”!!! Updated: 2008-07-20 04:47:38 Description: Note: This program was broadcast on the public radio station WCVE. bookcover Cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain is one of the canniest thinkers out there, pondering the wide world of the web, and his new book is called The Future of the Internet ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms Updated: 2008-07-20 04:17:00 Description: Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA. been there - done that Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tim Wu’s neologism: Network neutrality! Updated: 2008-05-22 20:34:18 Description: NOTE: Tim Wu has a new book out, called The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires! The term network neutrality was the brainchild of Tim Wu of Columbia Law School. So what does this term mean, and what power does it have? Click her...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson Updated: 2008-05-22 20:22:52 Description: Esther Dyson 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet! Updated: 2008-02-22 02:18:06 Description: Note: So far, this piece has been broadcast on the following public radio programs: New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth, WDAV’s Artist Spotlight, Tapestry from 90.3 WBHM, in Birmingham, Alabama and KUAR, in Little Rock! Bor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Origins of “Rock” Updated: 2007-12-10 02:13:59 Description: Note: this piece was broadcast on NJN (New Jersey Public Radio) and 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 ar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg Updated: 2007-09-24 02:10:13 Description: Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, KZMU and WFIU. 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 cal...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Future of Europe – with Alberto Alesina Updated: 2007-09-02 06:47:02 Description: Note: a portion of this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliates WCAI/WNAN! 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Art & Science with Alan Lightman Updated: 2007-08-01 22:04:27 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual Updated: 2007-07-25 06:30:12 Description: Note: this interview was reviewed on PRX and earned 4 stars! And it was broadcast on the public radio stations WCAI/WNAN, the Cape and Islands affiliates of WGBH. Public -- Or Private? Who are our public intellectuals today? What purpose are they ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher Updated: 2007-07-10 07:50:07 Description: 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 h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… Updated: 2007-07-01 08:49:25 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… Updated: 2007-07-01 08:49:25 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn Updated: 2007-06-08 18:27:29 Description: Note: this program was broadcast on the WGBH public radio sister stations WCAI/WNAN, on the Cape and Islands! Harvey Cox Simon Blackburn In this half-hour, ThoughtCast talks with two very different men, with one thing in common — a beli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Public Media Maverick Jay Allison Updated: 2007-04-28 22:13:39 Description: Note: 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 int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Public Media Maverick Jay Allison Updated: 2007-04-28 22:13:39 Description: Note: 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 int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Astrophysics in Cambridge — at the Planetarium! Updated: 2007-04-26 06:18:22 Description: Noreen Grice As 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 taki...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds” Updated: 2007-04-20 12:05:55 Description: 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 O...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Doc Searls! Updated: 2007-03-09 04:16:02 Description: 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 In...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Henry Jenkins@Beyond Broadcast 2007 Updated: 2007-03-07 05:41:29 Description: Henry Jenkins Henry 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The BBC and CBC weigh in… Updated: 2007-03-07 04:21:57 Description: Paul Brannan Paul 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Doug Kaye at the IMA Updated: 2007-02-27 04:26:50 Description: Doug Kaye Doug 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD WNYC’s Bill Swersey on “Open Source” Updated: 2007-02-26 04:38:49 Description: Listen Up! WNYC Radio’s Bill Swersey led a working group at the conference called “Public Radio and Open Source,” which came up with the idea for a watering hole (pubforge.org) where open source developers for public media can d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Two Questions: Redux Updated: 2007-02-25 02:56:17 Description: There'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 Broadcastin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Two Questions Updated: 2007-02-23 05:39:38 Description: Hmmm… Number 1: How integrated is your media? Number 2: Is there anything about the way media is being integrated today that concerns you? The answers? Here are the first 8 of 17, all recorded at the 2007 IMA conference in Boston. Click here: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Integrated Media — are we there yet? Updated: 2007-02-22 09:31:28 Description: Henry Becton (courtesy WGBH) WGBH President Henry Becton inaugurated the 2007 Integrated Media Association conference with a talk on the strengths and weaknesses of public broadcasting today. He speaks with ThoughtCast about the definition –...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Economist Amartya Sen on “Identity and Violence” Updated: 2006-11-19 09:41:52 Description: Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH Radio. And here’s a PRX review of the program! Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about “Identit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Future of Public Radio: Part 5 Updated: 2006-09-26 08:52:21 Description: This is the final series of ThoughtCast 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Future of Public Radio: Part 4 Updated: 2006-09-26 04:09:43 Description: This is a continuing series of ThoughtCast 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 Pub...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Future of Public Radio: Part 3 Updated: 2006-09-25 03:33:44 Description: This is a continuing series of ThoughtCast 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Future of Public Radio: Part 2 Updated: 2006-09-23 07:42:39 Description: This is a continuing series of ThoughtCast 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 b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 Updated: 2006-09-20 13:26:44 Description: PRPD 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 entr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah Updated: 2006-08-10 09:19:12 Description: Note: this interview was rebroadcast Jan. 21 at 10 pm on WGBH. It has also aired on WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU. And here are 2 reviews of this interview on PRX. Alan Dershowitz The controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity law...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah Updated: 2006-08-10 09:19:12 Description: Note: this interview was rebroadcast Jan. 21 at 10 pm on WGBH. It has also aired on WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU. And here are 2 reviews of this interview on PRX. Alan Dershowitz The controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity law...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beyond Broadcast: more state of mind… Updated: 2006-05-26 06:44:55 Description: A key panelist was Terry Heaton, the president of Donata Communications. He’s part rebel, part businessman, part visionary: (5:30 minutes) Here’s my interview with Jamie Biggar, the young but wise senior developer at WGBH Interactive: (...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Updated: 2006-05-17 22:15:37 Description: Branching Out I attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School in in the spring of 2006, and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick ThoughtCast interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind Updated: 2006-05-17 22:15:37 Description: Branching Out I attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School in in the spring of 2006, and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick ThoughtCast interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the director ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dan Gillmor on ThoughtCast Updated: 2006-05-16 19:11:36 Description: IS 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist Updated: 2006-04-11 08:32:41 Description: WGBH broadcast this ThoughtCast interview, and also features it on their “Science Luminaries” series, as part of “WGBH Science City.” It was also broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, public radio stations for the Cape and Islands. Lisa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David Updated: 2006-03-22 21:43:53 Description: Note: The WGBH sister stations WCAI and WNAN broadcast this interview, and it also received a 5 star review on PRX! Robert Pinsky Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible – the shepherd, poet, warrior and adultere...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvard Book Store author talks: Alan Dershowitz Updated: 2006-03-21 02:58:48 Description: Click here: (25 minutes) to listen to Alan Dershowitz’s talk on “Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways” at Harvard Hillel, presented by the Harvard Book Store. Among other subjects, Dershowitz discusses the doctrine of preemption...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvard Book Store author talks: Kevin Smokler Updated: 2005-12-12 06:00:10 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall Updated: 2005-12-08 20:15:44 Description: Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio’s “Arts and Ideas.” And here’s a review of the program on PRX! Megan Marshall Author Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabody sist...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Web 2.0 and beyond — a conversation Updated: 2005-12-06 02:02:47 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer Updated: 2005-11-06 08:58:50 Description: 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 biogr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Virgil’s Georgics Updated: 2005-09-01 22:16:06 Description: 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 scho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvard Book Store author talks: Carol Bundy Updated: 2005-08-01 21:25:40 Description: Cambridge 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 r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic Updated: 2005-07-20 08:09:49 Description: 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. And here̵...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvard Book Store author talks: David Ferry Updated: 2005-06-23 02:02:36 Description: Virgil A Reading with David Ferry, discussing his translation of Virgil’s Georgics. This recording was made at Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, in May 2005. The paperback of Virgil’s Georgics, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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