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Public talks curated around Taking Control of Diabetes with Dr. Neal Barnard that explains the different types of diabetes and how each can be triggered by genetics, weight, poor diet and lack of physical activity or pregnancy. Dr. Barnard reveals in-depth scientific studies from leading national organizations, unveiling results that not only diminish diabetes, but increase energy and... -
Inspiring talks by women working and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. We'd like to introduce you to some of the most fascinating women, and scientists, on the planet who have devoted their lives to better understanding our world. From the outer reaches of space exploration to the hidden world of animal intelligence. From designing soft houses to dissecting... -
Washington Post columnist Shankar Vedantam discusses his book The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives. The hidden brain is Vedantam... -
Public talks curated around NOVA: The Pluto Files that explores the rise and fall of America's favorite planet. When the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil deGrasse Tyson found himself at the center of a firestorm led by angry, Pluto-loving elementary school students. But what is it about this cold, distant, icy rock that... -
Award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein reads from her new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. After Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's... -
Public talks curated around Faces of America with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates building on the success of his series African American Lives and African American Lives 2 to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans. Looking to the wider immigrant experience, Henry Louis Gates Jr. turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics and unravels...
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The Forum Network is presented as part of a new partnership with PBS and NPR, with generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WCPN was an early partner with WGBH Boston and Public Broadcasting Atlanta in expanding this online lecture service.
The WCPN Forum Network service gives online audiences an opportunity to watch video lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, and policymakers. Forum Network lectures are hosted by community organizations and educational institutions in Cleveland and beyond. The Forum Network online lecture library currently includes thousands of video and audio files, produced by WCPN and other participating public broadcast stations from across the country. As part of a public broadcast station collaboration all lectures are aggregated into one common digital archive and made available to North Ohioan audiences as well as audiences worldwide, through the Forum Network.
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90.3 WCPN helps Northeast Ohioans connect with their world. The schedule includes news, talk, information and variety programs, complemented by arts and cultural coverage and musical offerings with an emphasis on jazz.
The roots of 90.3 WCPN extend back to 1938 when the Cleveland Board of Education launched WBOE, the first licensed educational, non-commercial radio station in the United States. In 2001, WCPN merged with WVIZ/PBS to form idea streams a multiple-media organization with a mission ìto strengthen our communities by providing distinctive, thought-provoking programs and services that enlighten, inspire, education and entertain. With that kind of mandate, 90.3 WCPN (a.k.a. Northeast Ohio’s NPR news station; The Sound of Ideas and The All Day Brain Food) sees itself as a community catalyst, as well as a source of valuable news, information and music programming, acquired from NPR, BBC, CBC, PRI and others. The station maintains a 24 hour-a-day schedule of local and national public radio programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Weekend America, Talk of the Nation, The Diane Rehm Show and its own award-winning 90.3@ 9, Around Noon, JazzTracks, and Jazz from the Northcoast. The station has been the recipient of hundreds of awards including frequent citations as the best news operation in Ohio (radio, large market) by the Society of Professional Journalists. It was also recently described by The Plain Dealer as Cleveland’s prestige radio station.
