Dec 22 2008
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Sep 28 2008
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Saturday Night Live skit: Sarah Palin - Katie Couric interview
Sep 26 2008
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Arnold Kling, an economist who has worked for Freddie Mac and the Fed, talks to the Cato Institute about the proposed bailout.
Sep 25 2008
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Sep 16 2008
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Stiglitz Says Iraq `Surge’ Not Success That Bush Claims — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. spending on the conflicts, and the outlook for the credit crisis and financial market regulation.
Jun 02 2008
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A couple, both writers, spend a day no more than 15 feet apart like a couple, both Buddhists, who were profiled in the NY Times.
May 01 2008
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Apr 27 2008
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Clay Shirky’s talk from the Web 2.0 Expo touching on his Here Comes Everybody book.
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Another good thought-provoking talk by Tim O’Reilly.
Feb 02 2008
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Penn Jillette ruminates on getting famous.
Jan 20 2008
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Seen on New York Times Laugh Lines blog.
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UC Berkeley Webcasts: The Quality of Calories: What Makes Us Fat and Why Nobody Seems to Care
A RealMedia webcast of a talk by Gary Taubes at Berkeley. It’s a nearly two-hour long talk about parts of his new book.
Jan 07 2008
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Can you hit the bulls-eye?
Dec 17 2007
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Boing Boing’s demonstration of the AeroPress. I love mine.
Dec 15 2007
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Steven Pinker discusses research showing violence decreased in the progression from hunter-gather societies to our own very inter-connected time.
