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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—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.
Audio|Wed, 18 Nov 2009
|oil pricesfound at21:06, 0:56
“…connected. To. The security crisis. We have had -- wars in the Middle East. . 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 oil prices 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 oil prices shoot way up is very -- and he. But. The energy security crisis. Has to be addressed not just in the moment. Of high oil prices. . But during the times when prices come back now. And we've followed a pattern that president Barack Obama. Describe it I think …”
“…and urgent vehicle information the demands decisions and actions. For thirty years Al Gore has been leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warning. His efforts were outlined in the best selling book. Mr. author. …”
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—poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
Audio|Wed, 11 Nov 2009
|breast cancerfound at4:22, 1:35
“…this ideology. It was eight years ago I was being treated for breast cancer. . On -- you know I felt scared I felt very angry. Angry bird and as reasons on one with this breast cancer epidemic -- knows replied is it. And also lie -- the treatments so barbaric. It's treatments he really shopper forum. As -- …”
“…biology. She's the author of sixty bucks including the New York Times best sellers nickel and dimes and bait and switch. She's also the author of dancing in the streets a history of collective joy lets …”
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.
Audio|Wed, 30 Sep 2009
|iraq warfound at1:13:49, 1:20
“…in the Stanley Cup 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 Iraq War started. And what you'll also find -- fiasco which is what we experienced and it was totally inexplicable to us is there …”
“…how really interesting it is to me to read in her incredible new book the punishment of virtue. That one of the reasons. That we didn't hear more about that story after Sarah realized that the …”
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.
Audio|Thu, 10 Sep 2009
|boston public libraryfound at34:40, 6:11
“…know construction next spring. And we have an exhibition opening at the Boston Public Library in September. 2010. Now on this company's works and the great thing about the library is that it's almost entirely vaulted -- you know powerful things when you're in the exhibition. You look up for the next time -- in the Boston Public Library look up and you'll see this -- vaulting technology that comes directly from Spain. And lands in the United States. …”
“…Museum that's now nearing completion in South Africa on the border -- Zimbabwe. …”
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.
Audio|Wed, 26 Aug 2009
|venicefound at1:21, 0:27
“…career at the MFA in 2001. Following five years of living in Venice. . With his research supported by a Fulbright. Fellowships and grants from the metropolitan museum. -- by save Venice ink. His specialty is Italian Renaissance painting specifically -- to Raton and his contemporaries. He was part of the curatorial team responsible. …”
“…mounted at the MFA. Tuition to Toronto very amazing. Rivals and Renaissance Venice. . Is not only the largest exhibition of Italian Renaissance paintings in Boston in the last fifty years. But an exhibition that is …”
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.
Audio|Wed, 12 Aug 2009
|uhkfound at7:03, 30:52
“…It's that easy and fast it. -- me. It's UHK. . Street. Yeah. Okay. Yeah right -- …”
“…Pat cash. . I'm on it for me that's me that's exactly what things that you -- it is my business. Fruits and he just …”
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.
Audio|Wed, 22 Jul 2009
|quantum mechanicsfound at31:30, 0:35
“…about very high energies. The precise connection requires don't ask me about quantum mechanics 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 particle physics and fundamental physics truth so. So the frontiers -- ignorance that -- that early times in the history of the universe. And …”
“…his most recent book the lightness of being. Hi I'm very well reviewed book bringing some. Often what are regatta despite difficult subject to a wider readership so we're doubly. The line that will write that …”
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.
Audio|Tue, 21 Jul 2009
|high schoolfound at1:10:26, 15:19
“…a good question. When I was your age are up in junior high school 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 high school I wasn't even the best of twenty you know I don't remember but I never was the best but I was always …”
“…good idea. It's now. They did come around to me when the new cars came out the new models -- say what we're gonna give you two cars which ones do you walk alone really. And …”
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.
Audio|Mon, 20 Jul 2009
|high schoolfound at1:10:40, 15:33
“…question. When I was your age are up in junior high and high school 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 high school I wasn't even -- Twenty you know I don't remember but. I never was the best but I was always someone. That …”
“…good idea. It's now. They did come around to me when the new cars came out the new models -- say what we're gonna give you two cars which ones do you want low properly. And …”
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. ¿ More
Audio|Wed, 24 Jun 2009
|angelina joliefound at24:20, 27:53
“…they also have -- a very expressive face. Which he does. And Angelina Jolie is another example she's got a tattoo. On her arm a concern. Of a window. Freedom and a freedom. Term I -- …”
“…A good example I think of a very fine builder as Colin Powell very traditional very family oriented. Cautious but not -- really invested in loyalty. Was loyal to bush even when he really would …”