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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Behind the public face of John Lennon (Soundcheck: Monday, 17 November 2008) from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)
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Writing a book about the Beatles is to enter a crowded market. But Philip Norman’s new 851-page biography, “John Lennon: The Life” is gettin...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Book review: Jamie's Ministry Of Food: Anyone Can Learn To... Scotsman - Oct 6, 2008
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LAST WEEK, the telly chefs began their annual assault on the Christmas best-seller charts. Rick Stein, Gary Rhodes and Nigella Lawson all la...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The New Asia from KQED's Forum Podcast
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International policy expert Kishore Mahbubani discusses the growing influence of China and India, along with the implications for the rest o...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Ron Suskind Alleges War Fought On False Premises from NPR Podcast Fresh Air
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Story: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind says that the war in Iraq was based not simply on blunders but on lies. His book, The W...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The Black Hole War from KQED's Forum Podcast
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Physicists Leonard Susskind and Stephen Hawking have disagreed vehemently on the fundamental nature of black holes. Susskind's new book ...
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Secret History of Dreaming from KQED's Forum by forum@kqed.org (KQED Public Radio)
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Writer Robert Moss considers dreams "secret engines" in the history of everything from literature to quantum physics, and from rel...
The Black Hole War from KQED's Forum by forum@kqed.org (KQED Public Radio)
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The Black Hole War -- Physicists Leonard Susskind and Stephen Hawking have disagreed vehemently on the fundamental nature of black holes. Su...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Richard Muller -- "Physics for Future Presidents" from KQED's Forum by forum@kqed.org (KQED Public Radio)
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Richard Muller -- "Physics for Future Presidents" -- Physics can help inform our understanding of such hot-button topics as climat...
Monday, May 12, 2008
What Does China Think? from KERA's Think Podcast
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China is big news this year. With a rapidly expanding economy, devastating environmental issues, and (oh yeah) the Olympics just around the ...
Friday, April 25, 2008
"Michael Pollan: If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It" - from NPR's Day to Day
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If your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food, then neither should you, award-winning writer Michael Pollan is wont to say. He...
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