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Cosmic Evolution’s Predilection for Constant Change 8 Aug 2013 | 07:22 am
The theory of cosmic evolution is a relatively new addition to the field of cosmology, and attempts to answer the questions of who we are, where we are, and how we came to exist, among others, by taki...
EdX President Anant Agarwal’s Plan to Change the World 9 Jul 2013 | 05:51 am
You’ve heard the news. Online education is the next big, disruptive thing. It’s taking on the establishment, and the hidebound, bricks and mortar institutions of higher learning must change – or shrin...
20 Rescued Bear Cubs Nursed Back to Health 21 May 2013 | 05:29 am
Note: This interview and slideshow with Phoebe Kilham is featured on New Hampshire Public Radio Online. Phoebe Kilham is the soft-spoken younger sister of Ben Kilham, the renowned black bear behaviora...
Online Education at Harvard – a new advance for democracy? 10 Mar 2013 | 07:13 am
Distance education. Online learning. We’ve been hearing a lot these days about this new tool for teaching, this new way of leveraging technology to spread access to education as widely as possible, wi...
Islam and its Coat of Many Colors – with Ali Asani 30 Jan 2013 | 11:26 am
Can a multi-faceted Islam be whatever you want it to be? All things to all people? To listen to the renowned Harvard Professor Ali Asani tell it, Islam is a religion of multiple dimensions, interpreta...
Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books! 17 Dec 2012 | 06:16 am
Kate Rosenberger, owner Kate Rosenberger is one of those rare people who collects independent book stores in San Francisco the way the rest of us collect antique door stops, or unusual African masks. ...
The history and future of the New England Forest 4 Sep 2012 | 07:44 am
The forests of New England are, remarkably, a success story. They’ve recovered from attack after attack. The early settlers hacked them down, by hand, for houses, fences and firewood. Later on, the in...
“Why Does the World Exist?” with Jim Holt 9 Aug 2012 | 10:52 pm
Note: this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! Jim Holt (photo: Michael Todd) In this ThoughtCast interview, science writer Jim Holt takes us on a...
How to minimize disasters and manage crises – if possible! 16 Jul 2012 | 02:03 am
This Faculty Insight interview with Arnold Howitt, the executive director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, an...
Rediscovering James Joyce in Dublin with editor Maurice Earls 24 Apr 2012 | 09:07 am
James Joyce, 1915 James Joyce was born and raised in Dublin, and it was from Dublin he fled as a young man, to Trieste, in order to write Ulysses, perhaps the key novel of the early 20th century. Bu...
