Education

Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Michael Sandel
November 8, 2009
00:55:00
Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action" Students discuss the issue of affirmative action and college admissions. Is it "just" for schools to consider race and ethnicity as a factor in admissions? Does it violate individual rights?
Autism: Looking Beyond Cause and Cure
Susan Wilczynski
October 29, 2009
01:26:20
Susan M. Wilczynski, executive director of the National Autism Center, and Brenda Smith Myles, author and consultant with the Ziggurat Group, join James T.
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates
Thomas Cathcart
October 23, 2009
00:56:33
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein discuss Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between.
Boston Theater Now: New Artistic Directors
Diane Paulus
October 21, 2009
01:09:07
Greater Boston's Jared Bowen moderates a roundtable discussion of Boston's evolving theatre scene with the Hub's newest artistic directors: Kate Warner of the New Repertory Theatre, Peter DuBois of the Huntington Theatre Company, and Diane Paulus of the American Repertory Theater.
Journal of Henry David Thoreau
Edwin Frank
October 20, 2009
00:08:33
Edwin Frank, editor of New York Review Books Classics, talks about The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, recently published by NYRB Classics.
Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
Irene Khan
October 19, 2009
01:05:52
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan discusses her new book The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights.
Arthur: When a Child Knows Someone with Cancer
Paula Rauch
October 18, 2009
00:59:16
Experts in the field of pediatric health and education screen and discuss the Arthur episode “The Great MacGrady".
A Positive Attitude Creates Altitude
A Positive Attitude Creates Altitude
Behnaz Rouhani
October 14, 2009
00:34:25
Georgia Perimeter College Professor Behnaz Rouhani delivers a talk on how a good attitude in life can lead to higher levels of success and satisfaction.