Featured Lectures

Adapting Journalism to the Web

nmccoy — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:46:17 +0000

New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. The avalanche of news, gossip, and citizen reporting available on the web is immensely valuable but also often deeply unreliable. How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?

April 5, 2012

Ethan Zuckerman

Jay Rosen

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02:05:02

Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work & Live

Carnegie Council — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:47:21 +0000

Well-known blogger Jeff Jarvis celebrates what he calls the "emerging age of publicness," arguing that anything we have to fear in this new networked world is overwhelmingly outweighed by all the good that will come from it.

January 18, 2012

Jeff Jarvis

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00:27:00

Hanne Blank - Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality

nmccoy — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:45:25 +0000

Author and historian Hanne Blank discusses her book Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality.

Like the typewriter and the light bulb, Blank argues that the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. Men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, “heterosexual” had become a byword for “normal,” enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human experience.

In this chronicle, Blank digs deep into the past of sexual orientation, while simultaneously exploring its contemporary psyche. Illuminating the hidden patterns in centuries of events and trends, Blank shows how culture creates and manipulates the ways we think about and experience desire, love, and relationships between men and women.

April 5, 2012

Hanne Blank

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00:58:43

David Brooks on What Makes Humans Tick

Amy MacDonald — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:45:12 +0000

New York Times columnist and best-selling author, David Brooks, talks about his new book, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. He explores how emotions, biases, personality, social norms, and other elements that make up our unconscious minds shape the decisions we make every day.

March 17, 2011

David Brooks

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01:07:00

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Pluto Files

jeremy_tipton — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:39:45 +0000

Paula Apsell interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet, and about his work in astrophysics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, is director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and host of NOVA scienceNow. He is the author of nine books about astrophysics, including Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution and Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, and is the recipient of nine honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. His latest book, The Pluto Files, chronicles his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto's planetary status.

Paula Apsel is the senior executive producer for NOVA, and the director of the WGBH Science Unit. She got her start in broadcasting at WGBH Boston, where she developed the award-winning children's drama radio series The Spider's Web, and later became a radio news producer. In 1975, she joined NOVA, a fledgling WGBH-produced national series that would set the standard for science programming on television. Today, NOVA is the most popular science series on American television and on the Web. NOVA has won every major broadcasting award, including the Emmy, the Peabody, the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton.

February 25, 2009

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Paula Apsell

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00:51:21

Globalization of Markets: Do Corporations Need American Consumers?

Patricia Suhrcke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:16:21 +0000

Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect, explores the impact of "Globalization of Markets" on the American economy. When Henry Ford revolutionized American auto manufacturing a century ago, he not only introduced the assembly line; he also paid his workers enough to allow them to buy a Ford. This move was one of the first steps in creating an American economy that is driven by consumption. If globalization is keeping American incomes low, how can consumption rebound to fuel a recovery? If globalization is moving investments overseas, what role will commerce play in the national economy?

April 16, 2012

Harold Meyerson

Robert Kuttner

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00:52:08

Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Melora M Armstead — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:46:12 +0000

Yale law professor Amy Chua discusses the differences between Eastern and Western parenting techniques and her new memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals is that the Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. The Chinese believe that the best way to protect your children is by preparing them for the future and arming them with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother chronicles Chua's iron-willed decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, her way—the Chinese way.

February 22, 2011

Amy Chua

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00:55:07

Daisy Zamora Reads "Mother's Day"

brittanyseverance@gmail.com — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:50:28 +0000

American poet Daisy Zamora reads her poem, "Mother's Day".

April 1, 2010

Daisy Zamora

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