Friday, July 30, 2010

The Colbert Report - July 29, 2010 - Andy Cohen

747 July 29 None Andy Cohen "Turns out a stitch in time does not save nine. I'd like to apologize to the nine people who drowned while I was crocheting. This is The Colbert Report." 6095

Source: Wikipedia. See also: Built Right On The Ground, Follow the Other Hand: A Remarkable Fable That Will Energize Your Business, Profits, and Life

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations from KERA's Think Podcast

[2010-07-28 12:00:00] Just how important is food to the stability of a society? We'll examine the Romans and Mayans, modern challenges in the United States and China and more this hour with agricultural expert Evan D. G. Fraser, co-author of the new book "Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations" (Free Press, 2010).

Listen to the full KERA radio podcast here.

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, July 28, 2010 conversation with Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com

CHARLIE ROSE: Jeff Bezos is here. He is the founder and CEO of
Amazon.com, the country’s largest online retailer. The company’s
electronic reading device, the Kindle, has sold in the millions since its
debut in 2007. Amazon recently announced it is now selling more digital
books than hardcover books for the first time in its history.

Although sales of the Kindle continue to grow, the device faces
increased competition from tablet computers such as the Apple iPad. Last
week Amazon announced second quarter profit rose 45 percent from the same
quarter last year and its revenue grew 41 percent. Amazon’s stock has
since fallen because analysts expected even greater earnings performance.

I am pleased to have Jeff Bezos back at this table.

View the full conversation here, and read the full transcript here.

The Colbert Report - July 28, 2010 - Elon Musk

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Source: Wikipedia. See also: Orphans of Apollo, Elon Musk, Charlie Rose - Alexander Karp / Elon Musk (August 11, 2009), Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space, The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Colbert Report - July 26, 2010 - Hephzibah Anderson

744 July 26 Hephzibah Anderson "Russia has elected its first black official. Shame on you, Russia! They prefer to be called African-Americans. This is The Colbert Report." 6092

Source: Wikipedia. See also: Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex, Chastened: No More Sex in the City

Sunday, July 25, 2010

The man who saved New York from NY Post: News by By E.J. McMAHON

Former Gov. Hugh L. Carey is the Harry Truman of New York state — a political figure who left office in disrepute, only to have his stature rise in later decades. Just as Truman’s reputation was burnished by delayed appreciation for his Cold War leadership, Carey’s rehabilitation reflects a growing recognition of his role in tackling the near collapse of New York City’s finances 35 years ago. At a time when New York’s state government seems more dysfunctional than ever, this new book recalls an era when Albany actually worked. Seymour Lachman, a former state senator who runs the Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College, and co-author Robert Polner devote most of their narrative to the dramatic crisis year of 1975. But they also sketch a colorful biographical back-story.

Read the full NY Post story here.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Technology’s Effect on the Legal Profession from Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: Guest on Law Technology Now Podcast by Robert Ambrogi

In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE,” I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic. Way back in 1995, I wrote, Empowered or Enslaved: Technology’s Effect on the Legal Profession (PDF), the cover story for the December 2005/January 2006 issue of the magazine Law Office Computing. On one hand, the article reads like a time capsule. For example, one lawyer I interviewed as an Internet success story was Greg Siskind, who went on to write the popular book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. At the time I wrote the article, his practice was little more than a year old and already proving a success. But some of what lawyers said then about the downside of technology is no less true today. Consider this quote from Philip Dubois, a sole practitioner in Colorado: Technology is a double-edged sword. One result is that we have great new tools with which to do our jobs. But at the same time, the pace of our work — and therefore of our lives — has increased with each new tool. I’m not convinced that’s a good thing in the law. It’s wonderful in science, in engineering, in education and in the media. But law is supposed to be a deliberative practice. When we get to the point where we as lawyers are constantly trying to keep up with the pace, we lose that deliberative part of the law. Wise and prescient words from Dubois.

Read the full post here.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Charlie Rose's Thursday, July 15, 2010 conversation with with Ashley Merryman, Bruce Alberts and Aaron Berkowitz

CHARLIE ROSE: What is creativity? How do you define it? Where does
it come from? Can it be taught? Is there a science to it? These are just
some of the questions explored in the cover story in "Newsweek" magazine
last week. It was called "Creativity in America, the Science of Innovation
and how to Reignite our Imaginations."

There’s a resent IBM poll of 1,500 CEO’s. They identified
creativity as the number one leadership competency of the future.

For years conventional wisdom has held that America’s creative age
would ensure its global primacy. But maybe not. A new study indicates
that creativity scores among both children and adults have consistently
inched downward for the last 20 years.

Check the full discussion out here. Read the full transcript here. See also: Clinical Pathophysiology Made Ridiculously Simple

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, July 14, 2010 conversation with Chef Rick Bayless


CHARLIE ROSE: Rick Bayless is here. In 1987 after six years of
research in kitchens across Mexico he published his first cookbook. It was
called "Authentic Mexican." "New York Times" food critic Craig Claiborne
called it at that time "The greatest contribution to the Mexican table
imaginable."

That same year Bayless opened his first restaurant that has become one
of America’s most famous Mexican eateries. Today he commands a food empire
that includes three Chicago restaurants, a television series, seven cook
books, a line of food products, and now a new radio series. Here is a look
at his PBS program, "Mexico, One Plate at a Time."

Read the full transcript here. See the full conversation, interview here. See also: Mexican Everyday (Recipes Featured on Season 4 of the PBS-TV series "Mexico One Plate at a Time")Fiesta at Rick's: Fabulous Food for Great Times with Friends, Mexico One Plate At A Time

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, July 14, 2010 conversation with Author Sebastian Mallaby

CHARLIE ROSE: In 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones scraped together $100,000
to set up the first hedge fund. Sixty years later in 2009, the top 25
hedge fund managers earned a collective $25.3 billion.

Sebastian Mallaby’s new book called "More Money than God" argues the
future of finance lies in the history of hedge funds. Mallaby is a senior
fellow for International Economics and he’s a columnist in for the
"Washington Post." I’m pleased to have him here at this table. Welcome.

SEBASTIAN MALLABY: Great to be with you.

View the full transcript of the show here, or watch the whole interview here.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Charlie Rose's Tuesday, July 6, 2010 conversation with Stephen Kinzer - Current Affairs, Books

CHARLIE ROSE: Stephen Kinzer is here. He is the former "New York
Times" foreign correspondent and the author of several books including
"Overthrow" and "Crescent and Star." His new book makes the case that the
United States should build a new relationship with Turkey and Iran. It is
called "Reset -- Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future."

I am pleased to have him here back at this table. Welcome.

STEPHEN KINZER: Great to be with you.

CHARLIE ROSE: Talk to me about Turkey.

STEPHEN KINZER: I think the key to Turkey’s success as a nation has
been that in its 85 years of existence, it has managed to change with the
times. Turkey was founded as an authoritarian country at the time when the
idea of dictatorship was very prominent.

After World War II, the world didn’t like dictatorship anymore. We
wanted democracy. Turkey was a one-party state that voluntarily
transformed itself into a multi-party state with an election. And then the
party that had been in power since the founding of the republic lost and
they left power freely.

See: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11110. See also: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds

The Colbert Report - July 6, 2010 - Garret Keizer

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Source: Wikipedia. See also: The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise, Help: The Original Human Dilemma

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Charlie Rose's Monday, July 5, 2010 conversation with with Lev Grossman

CHARLIE ROSE: Joining me now to talk about summer books is Lev Grossman, author and book critic for "Time" magazine. I’m pleased to have him at this table to introduce us to what you might be reading this summer. So welcome.

LEV GROSSMAN: Thank you.

CHARLIE ROSE: Where do we start? What do you think will be the big commercial success this summer that we’ll see everybody reading on the beach?

LEV GROSSMAN: Well, I believe and also kind of hope that it will be Justin Cronin’s "The Passage." Justin Cronin is probably not a writer who you are intimately familiar with. He is what call is called these days a midlist literary writer who a couple years ago had an inspiration for a horrific vampire apocalypse novel, and he wrote it.

Read the full transcript here. Watch the full Charlie Rose interview here.

The Colbert Report - July 5, 2010 - Michio Kaku

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Source: Wikipedia. See also: Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Michael Lewis, Author, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" from C-SPAN - Q and A

In his new book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," Michael Lewis tells the story of several key players in the subprime mortgage crisis who understood what was happening to the market and were able to make huge amounts of money in the transactions. He is also the author of "The Blind Side" which was the basis of a 2009 movie that won Sandra Bullock an Academy Award for Best Actress. He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
Listen to the interview here. See also: Liar's Poker, The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, June 30, 2010 with novelist Alan Furst

CHARLIE ROSE: Alan Furst is here. His work as a spy novelist is
often compared with masters of the genre like Graham Greene and John Le
Carre. His latest novel is "Spies of the Balkans." I'm pleased to have him
here. Here we are set in Greece.

ALAN FURST: Correct.

CHARLIE ROSE: We have a police captain.

ALAN FURST: Police official.

CHARLIE ROSE: Who has to make a decision. War is coming.

You can read the full transcript of that interview here. Or, you can watch the full interview and conversation here. See also: Dark Star: A Novel, Night Soldiers: A Novel, The Polish Officer: A Novel, Kingdom of Shadows

The Colbert Report June 30, 2010 - Nicholas G. Carr

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Source: Wikipedia. See also: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, IT Doesn't Matter-Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard Business Review