Thursday, January 6th - NBR from Nightly Business Report - NBR Podcast | PBS

Soft sales deliver hard realities to retailers. The President's oil spill commission places blame for the Gulf Oil Disaster. Sin City hosts the consumer electronics show. We examine the gadgets, games and must haves. And author Burton Malkiel says index funds are where best to invest. Download the podcast here.

Kenji Yoshino: Uncovering the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights from Forum Network | Soapbox Podcast Podcast

Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino explores the pressure in American society to hide our authentic selves. In discussing issues from book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, Yoshino will lecture on topics such as what role does the legal system have in ensuring civil rights for those who do not fit in, and how can we create an authentically diverse society? Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law, and formerly the the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A Harvard graduate, Yoshino's interests lie Constitutional law and civil liberties. In addition to his book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, Yoshino has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Advocate, among others.

The podcast to the show can be found here.

Emptying the Nest from KERA's Think Podcast

[2010-10-14 12:00:00] What can parents do to help their adult children gain autonomy (and start paying their own rent)? We'll spend this hour with psychologist Brad Sachs, Ph.D., whose new book is "Emptying the Nest: Launching Your Young Adult toward Success and Self-Reliance" (Palgrave Macmillan, paperback, 2010).

Listen to the podcast here.