"The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It"! with Jonathan Zittrain on ThoughtCast, 05:30

"The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It"! with cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain on ThoughtCast

The Origins of Rock -- on ThoughtCast!, 03:30

Rock and Roll. A term we all know well. But what does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where -- and why? These questions are bit more difficult to answer!

Google Cooking, Griefer and other Neologisms - on ThoughtCast!, 03:40

Google Cooking is a new phrase - a neologism - born on the Internet. Listen to this short ThoughtCast program for a definition...

Our American "Empire" with controversal Harvard historian Niall Ferguson -- on ThoughtCast!, 03:55

Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

Steve Reich's Different Trains meets the Borromeo String Quartet -- on ThoughtCast!, 04:30

The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirring results -- on ThoughtCast!

Natalie Goldberg - on ThoughtCast!, 30:00

Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!

Natalie Goldberg and Alan Lightman on ThoughtCast!, 58:27

ThoughtCast speaks with writing guru Natalie Goldberg and author/physicist Alan Lightman!

Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual, 28:00

"Public intellectual" Jack Beatty of the Atlantic Monthly and NPR's "On Point" sits down with ThoughtCast!

Double Bill on ThoughtCast! An hour with Alex Vilenkin and Jay Allison, 57:42

Jenny Attiyeh speaks with cosmologist Alex Vilenkin about the search for other universes, followed by a talk with public media guru Jay Allison

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah on "Cosmopolitanism" -- and psychologist Marc Hauser on "The Moral Mind.", 57:00

ThoughtCast speaks with Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah about his new book, "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" -- followed by a discussion on the evolution of morality with Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser.

The End of Our Universe, and other timely topics, 29:45

Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin on the search for other universes, and the end of our own "O-region" -- on ThoughtCast!

Mark Kramer and Jay Allison on the nonfiction "voice", 55:25

Mark Kramer and Jay Allison discuss "Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide"

Jay Allison, 28:00

The man who put the "public" back in public media

The BBC's Lucio Mesquita on "The Future of Public Radio" -- on ThoughtCast!, 11:30

The BBC's Lucio Mesquita: part 14 of 14 interviews conducted at the annual PRPD conference -- on ThoughtCast!

Nikki Shields of Maine Public Broadcasting Network on "The Future of Public Radio" -- on ThoughtCast!, 04:30

Nikki Shields of Maine Public Broadcasting: the 13th of 14 interviews conducted at the annual PRPD conference -- on ThoughtCast!

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