Friday, February 27, 2009

Charlie Rose's Thursday, February 26, 2009 conversation with Jeff Bezos

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These are highlights; and there aren't really any transcripts available for this particular segment of highlights. But you can definitel...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Karl Popper from Game Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) by Stephen Thornton

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[Revised entry by Stephen Thornton on February 9, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Review: Books about the human brain from Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk by Steven Rose

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Against these reductionist claims, the Jesuit philosopher Andrew Gluck attempts a spirited, but to my mind ultimately unsuccessful, rebuttal...
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...