William James Audio & Video
Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke
[description] Nicholson Baker, the meta-novelist, recounts his hyper-linked history, "Human Smoke," that judges World War 2 to be "the end of civilization."
Mike Felger Show February 13, 2008
[description] Today on the Mike Felger Show Harry Manion, Ken Davidoff, and Ryen Russillo.
Here and Now for Thursday, January 3, 2007
[description] A record number of Iowans are expected to turn out to caucus for their presidential picks tonight. We speak with Kay Henderson, News Director of Radio Iowa. Immigration reform is one of the top issues on the minds of voters today. We go to Marshalltown, Iowa, a town that finds itself at the center of the debate over immigration after a raid at a meat-packing plant about a year ago resulted in the arrest of 99 suspected illegal immigrants. We also delve into the positions that candidates hold on the issue of immigration. Our guests are Martha Garica, a first time voter and recent American citizen and Lon Walker, police chief of Marshalltown. We also speak to Jonathan Wiesman of the Washington Post for an overview of where candidates stand on immigration reform. While public opposition to the war in Iraq is at an all-time high you wouldn't know it if you went to the traditional hot beds of radicalism: college campuses. Here and Now's Monica Brady-Myerov explains why students hav
Juan Cole: from Bonaparte to Bush
[description] Middle East Historian Juan Cole recounts the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's 1798 invasion of Egypt, and connects it with the "bookend" fiasco of the Bush war in Iraq today.
Wicked Good Podcast #72: You Saved My Horse
[description] Listen now or subscribe to the podcast feed ! This week, equine shenanigans at the fancy lounge at the Natick Collection, feedback from a confused Nigerian "listener", Steve takes on the evil Omaha Steaks telemarketers, the mystery of Le Petit Bistro, adn a love/hate review of The Simpsons Game. Links: LOLCats at I Can Has Cheezburger Music: Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start "I Know You'll Find Out That I'm a Geek" (mp3) from "and Nothing is #1" (Steven Poponi) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album Intro Music: "Pocketbook" by Derek K Miller Outro Music: "Remember Hope" by Farewell Redemption Podcasts Mentioned: Barely Podcasting Love Long and Prosper Redboy Podcast Technorati Tags: Podcasts Boston Massachusetts New England Feedback: Feel free to e-mail us at WickedGoodPodcast|at|gmail.com or call us at 206-600-MASS(6277)!
Art, Science & Truth: Jonah Lehrer
[description] Jonah Lehrer in "Proust was a Neuroscientist" makes the case for artists (Walt Whitman, Igor Stravinsky, George Eliot, Paul Cezanne et al.) as the real pioneers in grasping and revealing how our minds actually work.
"This was the worst war ever" : Ken Burns
[description] PBS documentarian Ken Burns reflects on his World War 2 epic -- and the possibility that war histories extend the innate human fascination with combat.
Speaking of Music Again: Oliver Sacks
[description] There’s a case to be made — and Paul Elie makes it elegantly in his Slate review of Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia — not just that Oliver Sacks is his own most interesting patient in his journal of musical symptoms, but that himself, the patient with 70-plus years of soaring, passionate musical memories, is more interesting than himself, the observant clinical neurologist.
"Dark Nights of the Soul" by Rev. Nancy S. Taylor 09/2/2007
[description] "Because of their intimate acquaintance with the psalms, I doubt our Puritan forebears would have been surprised by the news we heard this week about Mother Teresa . . . exposing her interior spiritual agony."







