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The Promise of Open Media

The Dopamine Economy

Turbulent Times for Truth Tellers? Just ask the Nieman Foundation…

Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity

The New York Review turns 45!

Public Radio goes Hollywood!

Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson

Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet!

The Origins of “Rock”

The End of Our Universe among other timely topics…

Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds”

Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah

Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist

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    • Table of Contents

      • Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul
      • A Conversation with Los Angeles Impresario Ernest Fleischmann
      • The “New Biology” with Steven Pinker, Noga Arikha & Melvin Konner
      • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau
      • Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stubborn Survivor
      • The “Puzzle of Existence” with Jim Holt
      • Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide”
      • The Promise of Open Media
      • The Dopamine Economy
      • Turbulent Times for Truth Tellers? Just ask the Nieman Foundation…
      • Has the Global Economic Crisis – or GEC – got us?
      • The Economic Pits with James Poterba
      • Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity
      • The New York Review turns 45!
      • Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & Janet Malcolm!
      • Reading List for Obama – your thoughts?
      • How Fiction Works — with James Wood
      • Public Radio goes Hollywood!
      • Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson
      • “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It”!!!
      • Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms
      • To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status
      • Ethan Zuckerman’s homage to homophily
      • More Neologisms with TPM’s Josh Marshall
      • Tim Wu’s neologism: Network neutrality!
      • Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia – the word!
      • In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson
      • Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet!
      • The Origins of “Rock”
      • Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg
      • The Future of Europe – with Alberto Alesina
      • Art & Science with Alan Lightman
      • Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher
      • The End of Our Universe among other timely topics…
      • Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn
      • Public Media Maverick Jay Allison
      • Astrophysics in Cambridge — at the Planetarium!
      • Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds”
      • Doc Searls!
      • Henry Jenkins@Beyond Broadcast 2007
      • The BBC and CBC weigh in…
      • Doug Kaye at the IMA
      • WNYC’s Bill Swersey on “Open Source”
      • Two Questions: Redux
      • Two Questions
      • Integrated Media — are we there yet?
      • Economist Amartya Sen on “Identity and Violence”
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 5
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 4
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 3
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 2
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 1
      • Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah
      • Beyond Broadcast: more state of mind…
      • Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind
      • Dan Gillmor on ThoughtCast
      • Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist
      • Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: Alan Dershowitz
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: Kevin Smokler
      • The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall
      • The Web 2.0 and beyond — a conversation
      • Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer
      • Virgil’s Georgics
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: Carol Bundy
      • Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: David Ferry
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