Saturday, December 26, 2009

Profiling Frank Oppenheimer from NPR Podcast Science Friday

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Author K.C. Cole writes about physicist and Exploratorium-founder Frank Oppenheimer in Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens. Cole, a frien...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Who is Mrs. Cohen from Hadera, and should Israelis care where she puts her money? from Slate Magazine by Daniel Gross

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TEL AVIV, Israel—Amram Aharoni has a serious résumé, but he has the mien of a comedian. On Sunday at the Globes' Israel Business Confere...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

David Javerbaum from KQED's Forum Podcast

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"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" producer David Javerbaum joins us to discuss his new book, "What to Expect When You're ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Underreported: China's Gulag Prison System (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 19 November 2009) from Lopate - Underreported by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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President Obama was in China this week and he did speak out on the country’s human rights record. On today’s first Underreported segment, we...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Abnegate (Dictionary.com's Word of the Day)

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1.To refuse or deny oneself; to reject; to renounce. 2. To give up (rights, claims, etc.); to surrender; to relinquish. Quotes: An exagge...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Charlie Rose Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell discusses his latest book "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" CHARLIE ROSE: Malcolm Gladwell is here. He i...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

"Street style from The Sartorialist" from PRI's The Sound of Young America

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Photographs from the popular street fashion photography blog, The Sartorialist, now published in a new book. One of America's most popul...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

The Twitter Book from Slashdot: Book Reviews by samzenpus

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stoolpigeon writes "Microblogging service Twitter has undeniably been a hit, with growth rates that were at times in excess of 1400%. T...
Friday, November 6, 2009

NYT: Book Review for 10/09/2009 from NYT Book Review

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This week, a conversation with Maureen Dowd about Dan Brown's new novel, "The Lost Symbol"; Motoko Rich has notes from the fie...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Charlie Rose Conversation with Sam Tanenhaus

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CHARLIE ROSE: Sam Tanenhaus is here. He is editor of both the "New York Times Book Review" and the "Weekend Review" s...