Listening ideas for 3 August 2011 (1)

Social Innovation Conversations
Jennifer Lynn Aaker - Creating Infectious Action
Imagine what it would be like to find out that your best friend had cancer; what would you do? In this keynote presentation about social media and social action, Jennifer Lynn Aker shares a touching story of what a small group of people did when they found out that their friends were dying, and how that changed the fate of leukemia patients from South Asia. Jennifer explains how the group achieved incredible results in a short time and shares the four keys to creating infectious action.
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Mahabharata Podcast
Kurukshetra, Days 7 & 8
Episode 66 - The seventh and eights days of the War. Bhisma kills a few more Dhartarastras, king Virata loses another son, and we meet Arjun's son Iravat, a Naga prince from Arjun's tour of the holy places, long long ago. We meet Iravat only to see him killed by the demon Alambusha. Alambusha is also the son of a famous father-- none other than the peculiar half-deer Rshyashrnga! In the story we get from the epic, Rshyashrnga's son is the child of a Kshatriya princess, and becomes Raja of the kingdom. We are not told where he begot this demon! Arjun and Bhisma seem ready to get down and fight, but it never seems to happen. Maybe on day 9? Duryodhana is quickly losing faith in his general, so he better do something big on the next day...
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The Korea Society
Keynote Address by Ambassador Kathleen Stephens
On July 19th, 2011, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Kathleen Stephens delivered the keynote address at The Korea Society’s 2011 Annual Dinner in New York City. She spoke about the “better than ever” relationship between Korea and the United States, the importance of the free trade agreement, and her own 700-kilometer bicycle trip from Seoul to Jindo.
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Rear Vision
Who Counts? A history of the census
Next week Australia holds its census, and so Rear Vision traces the recent history of this ancient institution, to make sense of who counts, and who does the counting. While there have been systems of "enumeration" in place since the Romans, Egyptians and Chinese wanted to keep track of populations and landowners, fighting forces and minorities - the Australian system owes its origins to both English naval "musters" and colonial forms of control, and international statistical developments. So today on Rear Vision we compare the Australian census with the British census of the nineteenth century, and the census in the USA - mandated in the constitution and posited as central to nation-building and politics.
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BioCast
למען המדינה והקיסר - איסורוקו ימאמוטו
הוא נולד לשושלת ארוכה של לוחמים, וגדל בהתאם להיות קצין צבא מקצועי, שלמרות הרקע המסורתי מאוד שלו,הוביל מהפכה כלל עולמית בתחום הלוחמה הימית. עמדתו המקצועית גרמה לו להחשב לאנטי-פטריוט ואולי אף בוגד בארצו, עד שהודח מתפקידו הרם והורחק מהפיקוד העליון. גם הרחקתו לא הפסיקה את מריבותיו עם מפקדיו, עד שתכנן עבורם את אפשרות הנצחון היחידה. בזכות הוצאת דבריו מהקשרם התייחסו אליהם בכלל, ובדרך הפוכה מזו שהתכוון - וכך הפך לגדול גיבוריה של ארצו מאז ומעולם, עד לתבוסתה המוחצת...
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Listening ideas for 2 August 2011 (2)

Fresh Air
Gang 'Interrupters' Fight Chicago's Cycle Of Violence
Story: Ameena Matthews is a former gang member who now works to stop retaliatory gang violence in some of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods. She is one of the subjects of a new documentary called The Interrupters.
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Indicast
Tata Corus Deal
Project England worked out pretty well for Tata as CSN lost the 9 round bidding war. Abhishek gives us the complete low-down on what ever happened with the deal. We also spent sometime talking about the Ranji Final where almost almost half of the Indian cricket team had descended. Geofferey boycott, Vinod Kambli, Vengsarkar, Tendulkar family, and Rahul Dravid played a cameo apperance as well...For the first time, We rant about technology. How could microsoft disable the Office 2007 beta without any notice and why is google asking for $2 or more an Indicast adwords campaign?
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Listening ideas for 2 August 2011 (1)

The Economist
Money talks: August 1st 2011
A proposed deal to extend America's debt limit, signs of economic weakness in the rich world and the banks announce a round of lay-offs.
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Science Times
A race to the bottom of the ocean, an extinct marsupial comes to life and the psychology of addiction.
William J. Broad on plans by billionaires to explore the deepest parts of the ocean; molecular biologist Sean Carroll on signs of the existence of an extinct marsupial near Australia; and Denise Grady with Dr. Richard Friedman, psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, about the science of addiction.
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KQED's Forum
Michael Ellis
Adventure travel guide and naturalist Michael Ellis talks with Michael Krasny about his recent adventures, and shares his tips for exploring nature in California and across the globe.
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Leonard Lopate
Google and Memory
Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow discusses her research into how search engines affect our memory and are changing the way we remember information. Her paper in Science, “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips” is believed to be the first research of its kind into the impact of search engines on human memory organization.
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Kol Hadash
Israel
Israel is simultaneously one of the most inspirational and challenging elements of our curriculum. We are inspired by the achievements of secular Jews: a Jewish state, a revived secular Hebrew language and culture, a new ethos of self-confident Judaism. But the challenges of war and peace, religion and government remain. This topic is taught in 7th/8th grade.
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Kritisch denken
Zeno’s Paradox en het Probleem van de Vrije Wil
Het bestaan van vrije wil is een onderwerp waarover 1000den generaties filosofen zich gebogen hebben. Wat kunnen we erover zeggen?
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Listening ideas for 1 August 2011 (2)

EconTalk
Admati on Financial Regulation
Anat Admati of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about ways to make the financial system more stable. In particular, Admati explores the implications of higher capital requirements. She argues that current policies subsidize leverage--high levels of debt relative to equity--and that current levels of leverage increase the vulnerability of the system to swings in asset prices. She then gives her response to criticisms of higher equity levels. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the role of academic economists and finance professors as advocates for various policies.
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The Tolkien Professor
Silmarillion Seminar 8: Subcreators Gone Wild
After a brief message to Stephen Colbert, we move on to the eighth session of the Silmarillion Seminar, discussing Chapter 7 of the Quenta Silmarillion, "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor."
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Listening ideas for 1 August 2011 (1)

The History of Rome
Julian the Apostate
Julian came to power in late 361 and immediately set about trying to turn back the clock on both Church and State.
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Russian Rulers History Podcast
Kill the Reformer
Alexander II tries to reform Russia only to have multiple assassinations come his way. Eventually one was to succeed bringing his reign to an abrupt end.
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Ideas
Say No To Happiness
Life is about being happy, right? Just ask the Dalai Lama...or any of the best-selling authors on the subject...or the scientists who study the benefits of being happy. But are we losing something else along the way: the need for meaning in our lives? IDEAS producer Frank Faulk examines the tension between our desire for happiness and our need for meaning.
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New Podcasts since May 2011

The last time I summarized the newly reviewed podcasts was on May 1st. Since then a couple of more podcasts have been reviewed for the first time:

Myoclonic Jerk
The Myoclonic Jerk is a very entertaining podcast that would be best characterized as a piece of investigative journalism with a personal touch and a hint of comedy podcast. The maker Daniel Kaufman takes up a subject to discuss and you can count on being informed, entertained and allowed a peek into his soul.
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A Quiet Mind
Robert Jackson shares his thoughts on a range of topics related to mindfulness, awareness, meditation and positive thinking with practical advice from a largely Eastern viewpoint on how anyone, regardless of occupation or location, can better achieve a quiet mind.
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International Political Economy
James Morrison of Middlebury College covers the political economy of the international system.
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Reith Lectures 2011 (BBC)
The speakers will be Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former MI5 director-general Baroness Manningham-Buller. There will be five lectures in total and the subject will be "Securing Freedom".
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Introduction to Biofuels (UCSD)
Stephen Mayfield covers the topics of global warming, peak oil, peak coal, peak gas, peak phosporus and food and their interrelationships systematically and comprehensively, occasionally with the help of other lecturers.
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Early Modern England (Yale)
Keith Wrightson's introduction to the development of English society between the late fifteenth and the early eighteenth centuries.
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The Moral Foundations of Politics (Yale)
Ian Shapiro unpacks the approaches on legitamcy of political power with a strong economics perspective.
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I have also made a quick introduction to the 80 something podcasts coming from the New Books Network. Podcasts containing interviews with authors, ordered in as many subjects. I advise to pick one of the many specific feeds, but you can also subscribe to the compound feed. (review)