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<channel><title><![CDATA[Multimedia Feed for WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast Podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[A multimedia feed for content related to WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast Podcast]]></description><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/search?resulttype=media&s=10475]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:06:00 EST]]></pubDate><image><title><![CDATA[Multimedia Feed for WGBH Forum Network | Public Domain Podcast Podcast]]></title><url><![CDATA[http://search.everyzing.com/images/rssicon.png]]></url><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/search?resulttype=media&s=10475]]></link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Al Gore: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/27467745/al-gore-a-plan-to-solve-the-global-climate-crisis.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:57:50 EST]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former US Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore discusses his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis . In his follow-up to the best selling An Inconvenient Truth , the Nobel Peace Prize&mdash;winning former vice president outlines a comprehensive strategy for combating the impending global climate crisis, while at the same time addressing long-standing issues of global poverty and inequality.<br/><br/><b>[0:00:49]</b> ... and urgent vehicle information the demands decisions and actions. For thirty years <b>Al</b> <b>Gore</b> has been leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warning. His efforts were outlined in the best selling book. Mr. author. ... <br/><b>[0:05:29]</b> ... what was the possible. Politically what is necessary to respond. Crisis and <b>John</b> <b>Kerry</b> has been the preeminent leader in the United States. -- pulling together the various groups and factions. They get legislation there. And ... <br/><b>[0:08:08]</b> ... You you would look just like <b>Al</b> <b>Gore</b>. ... <br/><b>[0:20:57]</b> ... connected. To. The security crisis. We have had -- wars in the <b>Middle</b> <b>East</b>. All of them with complicated it causes. What won in -- cause for our involvement in that region is the very real fact that America's national security. Is at risk. Win global oil markets are so vulnerable. To sudden and drastic. Disruption. Elsewhere in the book side. Have a a graphic now what's happened to <b>oil</b> <b>prices</b> and the last 39 years. During which we've had OPEC embargoes. -- hostage crises than. All the rest. Hand the impact on the US economy. When <b>oil</b> <b>prices</b> shoot way up is very -- and he. But. The energy security crisis. Has to be addressed not just in the moment. Of high <b>oil</b> <b>prices</b>. But during the times when prices come back now. And we've followed a pattern that president Barack Obama. Describe it I think ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/120551293/WGBH_120551293.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Undermines America]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/27357915/bright-sided-how-positive-thinking-undermines-america.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:14:43 EST]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Journalist and activist Barbara Ehrenreich explains the perils of the Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America . Americans have a singular capacity for glossing over hardships with exhortations to "look on the bright side." The oft-prescribed power of positive thinking is certainly capable of altering our outlooks, but as Ehrenreich argues in her new book, this is not entirely for the better. In fact, it can lead to individual self-blame and institutional disregard for possible negative outcomes (like a national housing crisis). This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best&mdash;poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.<br/><br/><b>[0:01:31]</b> ... biology. She's the author of sixty bucks including the New York Times <b>best</b> <b>sellers</b> nickel and dimes and bait and switch. She's also the author of dancing in the streets a history of collective joy lets ... <br/><b>[0:04:17]</b> ... this ideology. It was eight years ago I was being treated for <b>breast</b> <b>cancer</b>. On -- you know I felt scared I felt very angry. Angry bird and as reasons on one with this <b>breast</b> <b>cancer</b> epidemic -- knows replied is it. And also lie -- the treatments so barbaric. It's treatments he really shopper forum. As -- ... <br/><b>[0:05:13]</b> ... the pink -- Now but I had trouble when -- this is <b>breast</b> <b>cancer</b> awareness month where I was supposed to be. Really you know in the into the paint thing this month I would not it into the -- and an analyst Ron. -- especially one I began to -- all the ads. -- pink <b>breast</b> <b>cancer</b> anti players. And that really had a profound existential effect on me I realized I am not afraid to die. But I ... <br/><b>[0:05:52]</b> ... And then there's another thing that goes on particularly with <b>breast</b> <b>cancer</b> development. Since just in the last two days in May need. You talk to people that applies to some other -- Is this in thing capitalization. Of the patient. And I found out that there was day <b>breast</b> <b>cancer</b> foundation in New York City. It was giving a tote bag full of tips to women who were and undergoing treatment. Nice ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/120333678/WGBH_120333678.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside Afghanistan: President Karzai Post Taliban]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/26657520/inside-afghanistan-president-karzai-post-taliban.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:08:53 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sarah Chayes discusses the future of Afghanistan. The Taliban regime was driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001, but the nation and the international community now face new problems: a devastated economy, the return of millions of refugees, drug trafficking, and a plague of corruption and violence. In addition, the fledgling government is struggling to unify and rebuild their nation and to define its future. Drawing upon her experiences living and working in the war-torn country as well as her unparalleled access to President Karzai's family, tribal leaders, and US military officials, Sarah Chayes offers a unique view of Afghanistan's modern history and the challenges ahead. Robin Young, host of WBUR's Here and Now, moderates this event.<br/><br/><b>[0:01:15]</b> ... how really interesting it is to me to read in her incredible <b>new</b> <b>book</b> the punishment of virtue. That one of the reasons. That we didn't hear more about that story after Sarah realized that the ... <br/><b>[1:00:28]</b> ... your relationship with your wife or the fact that you want some <b>birth</b> <b>control</b> or you know. So I become the person -- years about the miscarriage. Who -- you know who's asked to bring some <b>birth</b> <b>control</b> who gets to see the bite marks on people's arms and stuff like that it's a really unbelievable. Kind of roll that ... <br/><b>[1:13:49]</b> ... in the <b>Stanley</b> <b>Cup</b> and 30%. Congress as imagines the last lasting lucky questionnaires and it every resident chances in years at the last instance here I'm and I just like to add a coda to the use of -- previous one day. A lot of people also ask me about. You know did you feel a devastating difference when the <b>Iraq</b> <b>War</b> started. And what you'll also find -- fiasco which is what we experienced and it was totally inexplicable to us is there ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/113359413/WGBH_113359413.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lunch with a Luminary: John Ochsendorf]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/26263315/lunch-with-a-luminary-john-ochsendorf.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:46:15 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[MacArthur Award-winning structural engineer John Ochsendorf talks about how his interests in environmental science, history, archeology, and engineering led him to his work with historic structures, and then to his work redesigning communities to make them carbon neutral. This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. John Ochsendorf i s a structural engineer and an historian at MIT, whose work won him a 2008 MacArthur "Genius" Award.<br/><br/><b>[0:06:09]</b> ... Museum that's now nearing completion in <b>South</b> <b>Africa</b> on the border -- Zimbabwe. ... <br/><b>[0:24:31]</b> ... ornamental bamboo from China and weeds from Florida and end signs from <b>South</b> <b>America</b> all growing in New England. If you're going to make a wish list of biological. Of plans to use for construction in ... <br/><b>[0:28:50]</b> ... thanks. When I was in <b>high</b> <b>school</b> my mom introduced me to work at Heinz he's solar is an architect from Switzerland and a lot of the stuff looks ... <br/><b>[0:30:17]</b> ... compression structures. And your right they -- this show in particular in <b>South</b> <b>Africa</b> we are directly influenced by -- and he -- And I did my master's degree at Princeton University with an incredible professor ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/112701979/WGBH_112701979.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conversations of Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/26047411/the-conversations-of-titian-tintoretto-and-veronese.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:36:25 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Frederick Ilchman discusses the largest exhibition of Italian Renaissance paintings in Boston in 50 years, which offers an ideal opportunity to bring to life the heated debates on art and the creative rivalry of the greatest Venetian painters of the 16th century: Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. The exhibition's format, pointed juxtapositions of similar subject matter by the three artists, is different from a typical museum exhibition, which either focuses on a single artist, or instead covers an entire period or movement and encompasses dozens of creative personalities. Through the masterpieces brought together, each artist will emerge as a distinct individual. Contemporary texts (letters, dialogues, biographies) as well as other paintings far too large to bring to Boston recreate what these artists thought about the art of painting, and each other. The exhibition "Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice" runs from March 15-August 16, 2009 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and then will travel to the Musee du Louvre for the fall of 2009. Frederick Ilchman is the Mrs. Russ ell Baker Assistant Curator of Paintings in the Art of Europe department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He began his curatorial career at the MFA in 2001, following five years living in Venice, with his research supported by a Fulbright fellowship and grants from the Metropolitan Museum and Save Venice Inc. His specialty is Italian Renaissance painting, specifically Tintoretto and his contemporaries. He was part of the curatorial team responsible for the Museo del Prado?s Tintoretto exhibition in 2007 in Madrid and a contributor to its catalogue.<br/><br/><b>[0:00:21]</b> ... mounted at the MFA. Tuition to Toronto very amazing. Rivals and Renaissance <b>Venice</b>. Is not only the largest exhibition of Italian Renaissance paintings in Boston in the last fifty years. But an exhibition that is ... <br/><b>[0:01:16]</b> ... career at the MFA in 2001. Following five years of living in <b>Venice</b>. With his research supported by a Fulbright. Fellowships and grants from the metropolitan museum. -- by save <b>Venice</b> ink. His specialty is Italian Renaissance painting specifically -- to Raton and his contemporaries. He was part of the curatorial team responsible. ... <br/><b>[0:04:19]</b> ... victory because these three are always linked in textbooks Andy guidebook to <b>Venice</b>. Time in the popular imagination tuition children of irony is that often linked but they've never been treated as the exclusive sub ... <br/><b>[0:06:16]</b> ... done -- panel. Up through the first years of the sixteenth century <b>Venice</b> and much later almost the end of the sixties -- In other parts of Italy to influence wrong they like the Chinese ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/112255263/WGBH_112255263.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can We Talk about Race?]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/25794323/can-we-talk-about-race.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:26:17 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum sounds a warning call about the increasing but underreported resegregation of America, on the 53rd anniversary of the Bro wn v. Board of Education de cision. A self-described "integration baby," Tatum sees our growing isolation from one another as deeply problematic, and she believes that schools can be key institutions for forging connections across the racial division. In this book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. As an acknowledged expert on race relations in the classroom and the development of racial identity, she participated in President Clinton's "Dialogue on Race" and lectures extensively throughout the country. Tatum is also the writer of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Assimilation Blues.<br/><br/><b>[0:06:55]</b> ... It's that easy and fast it. -- me. It's <b>UHK</b>. Street. Yeah. Okay. Yeah right -- ... <br/><b>[0:30:52]</b> ... <b>Pat</b> <b>cash</b>. I'm on it for me that's me that's exactly what things that you -- it is my business. Fruits and he just ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/111821188/WGBH_111821188.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/25413700/lightness-of-being-mass-ether-and-the-unification-of-forces.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:01:50 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek discusses his work and his life in science. This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival. Frank Wilczek, He rman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been pushing the limits of what we know about particle physics and exploring what holds our universe together since he was 21, and contributing to the definition of gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together. Throughout a storied career in physics he has not only been at the forefront of his field but also an able and enthusiastic public communicator, helping to connect recent developments in fundamental physics to the general public, most recently in his book the The Lightness of Being.<br/><br/><b>[0:00:31]</b> ... his most recent book the lightness of being. Hi I'm very well <b>reviewed</b> <b>book</b> bringing some. Often what are regatta despite difficult subject to a wider readership so we're doubly. The line that will write that ... <br/><b>[0:18:20]</b> ... to quantum fluctuations so much and yet exhibit other characteristic. Behaviors of <b>quantum</b> <b>mechanics</b> such as. The the ability to those who propose different states gets its technical problems are but. This to propose different states. ... <br/><b>[0:25:48]</b> ... logical consequence of other principles deeper principles about consistency with relativity and <b>quantum</b> <b>mechanics</b> and some wrinkles cajun variants. That tells you that if you try to introduce. Laws that violate. This symmetry between past and ... <br/><b>[0:31:24]</b> ... about very high energies. The precise connection requires don't ask me about <b>quantum</b> <b>mechanics</b> but roughly speaking you can think -- you know if you want to things to get really really close together. You have to give them a lot of energy's -- didn't get really close together. So if we want to understand the very very very early universe we want to understand what happens that very very high energies. And that's sort of the frontier of our ignorance and <b>particle</b> <b>physics</b> and fundamental physics truth so. So the frontiers -- ignorance that -- that early times in the history of the universe. And ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/106886912/WGBH_106886912.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Bean: The Life of An Astronaut]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/25397245/alan-bean-the-life-of-an-astronaut.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:13:20 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Space pioneer Alan Bean talks about his life as an astronaut (and artist) in a lecture at the Museum of Science, Boston. Bean is the fourth of only twelve humans to have walked on the Moon. Find out what it was like as he describes the life of an astronaut. Learn about his role in the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, his experience as a spacecraft commander of the second Skylab mission in 1973 (when he spent 59 days in orbit!) and his 1,600+ hours in space prior to his 1981 NASA retirement. Bean also discusses how he uses his unique paintings to document humankind's first lunar explorations.<br/><br/><b>[0:15:15]</b> ... good idea. It's now. They did come around to me when the <b>new</b> <b>cars</b> came out the new models -- say what we're gonna give you two cars which ones do you walk alone really. And ... <br/><b>[0:21:47]</b> ... a lot of young men and women here that could fly the <b>space</b> <b>shuttle</b> was good -- better. But there's nobody's been to them and it has. Obvious its partner's interest in doing. It may be. ... <br/><b>[0:37:45]</b> ... kids who -- see their grandfather's. Granddad why don't we go to <b>Disney</b> <b>World</b>. And he said is great but we went last year down to Florida and you know we don't mean that granddad. Joey ... <br/><b>[1:10:22]</b> ... a good question. When I was your age are up in junior <b>high</b> <b>school</b> I just wanted to be upon. And I wasn't the best student in the class I've never been the best student in the class. Always worked hard. But never made you maybe in my <b>high</b> <b>school</b> I wasn't even the best of twenty you know I don't remember but I never was the best but I was always ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/106843238/WGBH_106843238.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Bean: The Life of An Astronaut]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/25386716/alan-bean-the-life-of-an-astronaut.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:45:45 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Space pioneer Alan Bean talks about his life as an astronaut (and artist) in a lecture at the Museum of Science, Boston. Bean is the fourth of only twelve humans to have walked on the Moon. Find out what it was like as he describes the life of an astronaut. Learn about his role in the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, his experience as a spacecraft commander of the second Skylab mission in 1973 (when he spent 59 days in orbit!) and his 1,600+ hours in space prior to his 1981 NASA retirement. Bean also discusses how he uses his unique paintings to document humankind's first lunar explorations.<br/><br/><b>[0:15:29]</b> ... good idea. It's now. They did come around to me when the <b>new</b> <b>cars</b> came out the new models -- say what we're gonna give you two cars which ones do you want low properly. And ... <br/><b>[0:22:01]</b> ... a lot of young men and women here that could fly the <b>space</b> <b>shuttle</b> was good design -- better. But there's nobody's been to them and it has. Obvious its partner's interest in doing. Maybe. If ... <br/><b>[0:37:59]</b> ... will -- see their grandfather say. Granddad why don't we go to <b>Disney</b> <b>World</b>. And he said is great but we went last year down to Florida and you know we don't mean that granddad. Joey ... <br/><b>[1:10:36]</b> ... question. When I was your age are up in junior high and <b>high</b> <b>school</b> I just wanted to be upon. And I wasn't the best student in the class I've never been the best student in the class -- always worked hard. But never made you may be in my <b>high</b> <b>school</b> I wasn't even -- Twenty you know I don't remember but. I never was the best but I was always someone. That ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/106827040/WGBH_106827040.mp3"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Is Your Brain on Love]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://multimedia.boston.com/m/23201820/this-is-your-brain-on-love.htm]]></link><pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:48:31 EDT]]></pubDate><description><![CDATA[Helen Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on romantic love, identifies four broad personality types, each governed by different chemical systems in the brain. Love is no longer blind, thanks to pioneering scientific research, based on her unique study of 40,000 men and women. &#xBF; More &nbsp;&nbsp;<br/><br/><b>[0:24:15]</b> ... they also have -- a very expressive face. Which he does. And <b>Angelina</b> <b>Jolie</b> is another example she's got a tattoo. On her arm a concern. Of a window. Freedom and a freedom. Term I -- ... <br/><b>[0:27:50]</b> ... A good example I think of a very fine builder as <b>Colin</b> <b>Powell</b> very traditional very family oriented. Cautious but not -- really invested in loyalty. Was loyal to bush even when he really would ... <br/><b>[0:46:03]</b> ... a very solid managed not a fact I just started with his <b>new</b> <b>book</b> a website called why him why her dot com. And down. A -- so like 40000 people have have I have just ... <br/><b>[0:55:22]</b> ... study. They found that ten out of the 100 reported love at <b>first</b> <b>night</b> and we look back at poetry from the Middle Ages from Japan from China. You won't it Egypt. You see poetry I ... <br/>]]></description><enclosure url="http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/396/510007/105874400/WGBH_105874400.mp3"/></item></channel></rss>