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The Zen of Fish: Sushi Galore!
October 14, 2007 – 9:26 pm | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss how sushi became one of America’s most popular fast foods. [Here On Earth]

Sustainable Innovation
October 14, 2007 – 9:21 pm | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Harvard Business Online’s Steve Singer talks with Cheryl Perkins, President and Founder of Innovation Edge. [HBR IdeaCast]

How Bad is the Net?
October 14, 2007 – 9:02 pm | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Andrew Keen’s book “Cult of the Amateur” attacks Wikipedia, bloggers, pornographers and other amateurs who communicate on the Net. He says the gatekeepers of mainstream media should be the model for the …

Innovating in America Today
October 7, 2007 – 8:29 am | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… Tom Ashbrook checks in with three young world-beating American innovators, on the path to breakthroughs right now, about what it takes and how they do it. And we hear from a big-view …

Customize Your Career
September 29, 2007 – 9:58 am | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Harvard Business Online’s Steve Singer talks with Cathleen Benko, co-author of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce.
[Harvard Business Online]

The Economies of Virtual Worlds
September 27, 2007 – 6:05 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… It’s an emerging marketplace, worth billions of dollars, and many Americans don’t even know it exists. In virtual worlds like “Second Life” or “World of Warcraft,” members buy and sell everything from …

Global Resources Wars
September 22, 2007 – 5:22 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… Russia sent two mini-submarines 13,000 feet beneath the Arctic ice cap, and planted a titanium-encased Russian flag on the seabed of the North Pole. “The Arctic,” declared expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, “is …

Robert Reich on Supercapitalism
September 22, 2007 – 5:19 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the US tradition of democratic capitalism has gone badly wrong. A generation of free market adulation, says Reich, has built a kind of capitalism so powerful …

William Gibson
September 22, 2007 – 5:13 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… William Gibson has been writing about the future of technology and society for more than twenty years, and is even credited with coining the term “cyberspace.” But his most recent novels are …

Exploitation and Exploration of Our Oceans
September 22, 2007 – 5:11 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… People once believed it was impossible to overfish the seas. But no longer — today it’s understood that the world’s fish stocks are being harvested faster than they can regenerate. Marine conservationist …

Mark Penn: Microtrends
September 21, 2007 – 10:44 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… The political strategist and pollster who coined the term ‘soccer moms’ talks about some of the many small and emerging groups in our society and what they may signal about political, economic, …

Copyrights in the Digital Age
September 14, 2007 – 10:19 am | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… What is a copyright and who does it protect? Who owns it, and who can use it? And how will the digital era impact copyright protection? On the Beat commentator Celia Hirschman …

Present at the Future
September 14, 2007 – 8:55 am | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… Ira Flatow, host of the popular NPR program Science Friday and author of the new book Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature …

Transrobotism (Human-Robot Bonds)
September 3, 2007 – 8:32 am | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… When a humanoid robot successfully mirrors human emotion and evokes an emotional response from us, what happens to our understanding of ourselves and our emotional reality? This provocative panel discussion on the …

Designing a Car of the Future: The Soft Car
September 3, 2007 – 8:22 am | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Dr. Mitchell Joachim of the MIT Media Laboratory shares some of his ‘out of this world’ thinking and design around his work to rethink car design based upon more humanistic principles. From …

The Art of Living a Second Life
September 3, 2007 – 8:15 am | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Called “the biggest digital art installation in the world” (Warren Ellis), Second Life is a highly imaginative, online, 3-D rendered environment populated with avatars (graphic representations of people). In Second Life you …

Blessed Unrest: Grassroots Humanity
September 3, 2007 – 8:09 am | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… From billion-dollar nonprofits to single person causes, there is a growing worldwide movement of organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. This is a movement with no name, leader, …

Interviews with Innovators – Dr. Moira Gunn
July 31, 2007 – 10:38 pm | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… In this conversation Jon Udell and Dr. Moira Gunn discuss what it’s like for a computer scientist and engineer to venture into the world of biotechnology, why the decade of biotech may …

Building Social Business Ventures
July 31, 2007 – 10:28 pm | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Microfinance is a proven, sustainable poverty-fighting strategy that works in all kind of cultural environments. For it to reach its potential, Muhammad Yunus explains that we must change the mindsets of donors, …

What the World Eats
July 29, 2007 – 10:07 am | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… How has industrialization changed or even threatened many traditional food cultures around the world? Jean Feraca and her guests explore what families in different countries eat. [Here on Earth]

Population Shifts in the West
July 29, 2007 – 9:52 am | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… Many are sounding the alarm that declining birth rates in the Western world will tip the balance of world power to the East and send the economy and more into a tailspin. …

The Nation’s Aging Infrastructure
July 29, 2007 – 9:40 am | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… The explosion of a Manhattan steam pipe has highlighted a mounting national crisis of crumbling infrastructure. [Diane Rehm]

How to Survive a Robot Uprising
July 18, 2007 – 7:04 pm | Comments Off

An MP3 clip… Daniel Wilson talks about his Rave Award winning book How to Survive A Robot Uprising. With his humor in pocket, he walks us through the worst Sci-Fi and Hollywood robot attacks. Luckily, …

Rewriting the Headlines: The Rise of Participatory Media
July 18, 2007 – 6:47 pm | Comments Off

An M3U clip… A World of Possibilities explores ways in which new media are being used to connect people with common interests and generate new options for solving problems and ending conflicts worldwide. [A …

The World Without Us
July 17, 2007 – 7:53 pm | Comments Off

A RealAudio clip… This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss what the world would look like if humans disappeared. [Here on Earth]