A RealAudio clip… Do you think language influences thought? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest explore how native speakers of distinct languages perceive the world. [Here …

An MP3 clip… Richard Sambrook is surprisingly bloggy for the person who runs the BBC World Service. (His official title is Director of the BBC’s Global News division.) He blogged for years internally at the …

An MP3 clip… In this podcast, Craig Newmark and David Weinberger, author of Everything Is Miscellaneous, discuss craigslist’s unstructured approach to managing the site’s growth and its features, and what that might mean for planning …

A RealAudio clip… Would a hurricane in Madagascar drive up the price of your vanilla ice cream? Should you check the Chinese stock market before your first down payment on a house? This hour on …

A RealAudio clip… Rob Gifford spend 6 years as NPR’s Beijing correspondent. In 2004, he traveled all 3,000 miles of a highway traversing China from the Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan. He writes about …

A RealAudio clip… What if you could ask anyone anywhere anything? That’s the slogan for Chat the Planet, an influential website that has young people all over the world talking to each other. This hour …

A RealAudio clip… We have more microbes in our bodies than we have human cells. We fear them as the cause of disease, yet are reliant on them for processes as diverse as water purification, …

A RealAudio clip… Digital diaries, online posts, life loggers and bloggers and Facebook and bed cams are increasingly making the very idea of a “private life” sound antique, retro, pointless. Today, millions of people are …

A RealAudio clip… This month, the Baltic nation of Estonia was temporarily paralyzed by a cyberattack. Security professionals are alarmed by its scale, but also its apparent motivation: political retaliation. Kojo explores what happened, and …

An MP3 clip… Part two of the interview with Andrew Keen, author of the new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. [Future Tense]

An MP3 clip… Former Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Keen says user-generated content like blogs, Internet video, wikis, and podcasts is eroding the pillars of society by replacing professional media. Keen is author of the …

An MP3 clip… Technological and industrial advances during the last century have made a tremendous positive impact on our daily lives. Some argue that these advances have come at a significant cost to the …

An MP3 clip…IdeaCast Producer Steve Singer talks with Howard Gardner, author of the new Harvard Business School Press book Five Minds for the Future. We live in a time of vast changes, and those …

An MP3 clip… Host Sheela Sethuraman interviews Jessica Jackley Flannery, cofounder of Kiva. Based in Silicon Valley, Kiva is an innovative social enterprise, which uses the Internet as a platform to connect lenders with …

An MP3 clip… Lord Rees-Mogg, former Editor of The Times, gives a free public lecture on the changing international scene. [University of Bath]

An MP3 clip… With Neuromancer, he introduced the world to cyberspace — and science fiction has never been the same. [Times Talks]

An MP3 clip… The population of many cities in Europe, the U.S. and Australia are in decline. There are too few births to replace those who die and, for a variety of reasons, they …

An MP3 clip… Blogs, wikis, podcasts and correspondents by the millions: Welcome to the world of citizen journalism. It’s messy, democratic, unfinished and ongoing. It’s riddled with errors yet self-correcting. We’re all newsmakers and …

An MP3 clip… Imagine the entrepreneurial spirit applied to large social purposes. Join us as we discover a new breed of socially conscious entrepreneurs who unite their vision and daring with the purpose and …

An MP3 clip… Peering into the heavens, do we see more valuable real estate, the next battleground, an observation post for monitoring trends on Earth, or all of the above? Who decides what happens …

A RealAudio clip… The baby boomers made a lot of babies. And now, they’re all grown up — or nearly — and hitting the American workplace in waves. Twenty-somethings with iPods and attitude, ready …

An MP3 clip… Forum explores the traveling exhibit “The Da Vinci Experience,” installed at the Aerospace Museum of California. [The Forum]

A RealAudio clip… If the world could talk, what would it say to humans about our impact on the planet? Perhaps the voices of warning and the signs of change are all around us and …

A RealAudio clip… From Wikipedia — the Internet’s biggest communal encyclopedia — to your local book club, wikis allow all users to be authors and editors. They operate on a simple concept — web-content altered …

A RealAudio clip… In just a few years, Wikipedia has changed the way we research everything from the sublime to the obscure. Now, revelations that a paid editor used assumed a false identity has the …