Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Colbert Builds 'Report' with Viewers, Readers from NPR Podcast Fresh Air

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Story: Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report talks about his book I Am America (And So Can You!). Colbert targets...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Robert Reich Looks Askance at 'Supercapitalism' from NPR Programs: Fresh Air from WHYY

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We love low prices, sure, but we frown at the things companies do to get us good deals -- like paying low wages. In his book Supercapitalism...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Women at bay from NPR: Selected Shorts

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Author Antonya Nelson is a vivid portraitist of the trials and triumphs of contemporary American women. Her ironically titled "Happy Ho...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Phantom Limbs (Radio Lab: Friday, 05 May 2006) from WNYC's Radio Lab by listenerservices@wnyc.org (Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich)

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Warning: this section gets gorey. We'll start off with fatality, trauma, and bear attack. Neurologists Robert Sapolsky and Antonio Damas...
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Friday, April 20, 2007

Brain Science Podcast #10 NeuroPlasticity (show notes) from Brain Science Podcast Archive by docartemis

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In this episode of the Brain Science Podcast we explore the recent research that has established, contrary to long-standing dogma, that our ...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

01-15-07: The Wine and Food Lover's Diet and Stuff On My Cat: The Book from Chronicle Books podcast

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1-15-07 In this episode, we talk to Philip Tirman, M.D. about his new book, The Wine and Food Lover's Diet. Tirman, a sports doctor, tur...
Saturday, March 3, 2007

Podcast #5: Consciousness from Brain Science Podcast Archive by docartemis

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Perhaps the hard problem will disappear. I consider how the discovery of neurotransmitters has changed our understanding of the role of emo...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Oh, Yoko (Soundcheck: Monday, 29 January 2007) from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org

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Few women in the history of music have inspired as much controversy as Yoko Ono. Some say she broke up The Beatles. Others say she saved Joh...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Mathematician Claims New Yorker Defamed Him from Slashdot by kdawson

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An anonymous reader writes, "Last month the New Yorker ran the article 'Manifold Destiny', by Sylvia Nasar, author of 'A Be...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

The Unconscious Toscanini of the Brain (Radio Lab: Sunday, 29 January 2006) from WNYC's Radio Lab by listenerservices@wnyc.org (Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich)

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How does the brain produce a thought? Or experience a unitary, whole, synchronized perception of a cup of coffee? For neuroscientists, this...