Moral Mammals: Why Do We Matter?
Peter Singer
November 24, 2010
01:36:00
Why bother being good? And will an atheistic or a theistic worldview best help us achieve a moral life? Peter Singer, world-renowned Princeton philosopher and animal rights activist, and John Hare, professor of philosophical theology at Yale, provide two different views on the subject.
Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
April 29, 2011
00:27:00
Francis Fukuyama discusses his new book, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. How did current political institutions develop?
Chinese in Boston: 1870-1965
Chinese in Boston: 1870-1965
Wing kai-To
March 12, 2009
00:50:59
Wing kai-To describes how Chinese in Boston formed a close-knit community that distinguished Boston's Chinatown as one of the oldest and most enduring Chinese neighborhoods on the East Coast.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
June 16, 2011
00:27:00
For two years Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired, was given an opportunity to observe Google's operations, development, culture, and advertising model from within the infrastructure, with full managerial cooperation. What did he find?
A Conversation with Microfinance Pioneer Susan Davis
Susan Davis
June 22, 2011
00:27:00
Microfinance started as a movement for social justice and women's equality and gave birth to an industry, says Susan Davis. This gave rise to scale, efficiency, and large numbers of people being served -- over 150 million of the world's poorest households.
Claude Steele: How Stereotypes Affect Us
Claude Steele: How Stereotypes Affect Us
Claude Steele
May 25, 2010
00:56:11
Claude Steele, acclaimed social psychologist, discusses identity and his new book Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us. Through illustrative personal stories, Claude Steele shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to ste
World on the Edge: Preventing Environmental and Economic Collapse
Lester Brown
February 9, 2011
01:20:00
Environmentalist Lester Brown has been assessing the health of the earth's ecosystems for more than two decades. Over that time he has seen increasing signs of break-down until we are now facing issues of near overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency.
Susan Orlean - A Hen in the Yard
Susan Orlean
March 3, 2010
01:13:00
Love the idea of having your own Rhode Island Red that produces fresh eggs every morning, your own quirky chickens to name, or a chartreuse chicken house in the yard? The backyard chicken movement is raging across the U.S.