Showing posts with label Pairings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pairings. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Where Are The 'Hackers' Now? from NPR Podcast Science Friday

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In his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, author Steven Levy profiled some of the personalities whose work brought PCs t...

When To Test For Prostate Cancer? from NPR Podcast Science Friday

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Ads urge men of a certain age to get screened for prostate cancer. But is "test early, test often" the best approach? Otis Brawley...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Pairing Ron Paul with Paul Krugman - Economics and Politics

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Texas congressman Ron Paul has long been a fierce critic of the Federal Reserve . In fact, last year he published a book called End the Fed...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Symbolism and Pragmatism: "How We Got From Estate Tax To 'Death Tax'" from NPR's The Two-way

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Don Gonyea speaks with Columbia Law School's Michael Graetz (update at 10 a.m. ET: he's also a professor emeritus and lecturer at Y...
Monday, December 13, 2010

"'The Gun': How AK-47s Changed The Nature Of War" - from NPR News and the NPR program, All Things Considered

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The image is iconic: the stubby barrel, the inverted arc of the banana clip. Osama bin Laden included one in his video after the Sept. 11, 2...

"The Master Switch": Is the Internet due for a takeover? - from Slate.com - by Laura Miller

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In "The Master Switch," Wu assembles all of these stories and reframes them as battles in a shifting landscape of high-stakes indu...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Pair "Googled" with Programmed"

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You’ve got to pair these two books together. You can read them in tandem; a chapter from Googled, followed by another from Programmed. Both...