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May 19, 2009
Interview with Stephen Wolfram
MP3... A first look at Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine, with Stephen Wolfram. This is uncut audio from David Weinberger’s 55 minute interview with Stephen for Radio Berkman. Look for the more concise version in next week’s episode. [Radio Berkman]
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Virtual Successes and Failures
MP3... For Linden Lab's founder and chairman Philip Rosedale, the open-ended social experiment that is Second Life doesn't end at the borders of the virtual world he envisioned and brought to life. The company itself is an evolving social and organizational experiment. In this conversation, Philip Rosedale tells host Jon Udell how mechanisms like the Love Machine and the Rewarder have succeeded -- or sometimes failed. And he discusses the ways in which Second Life supports the decentralized work style of Linden Lab. [IT Conversations]
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Making Up the Mind
MP3... An interview with neuropsychologist Dr. Chris Frith, author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World. Our brain processes information about the world outside us (via our senses) in the same way that it processes information from within our bodies and from our own mental world. In this interview Dr. Frith explores the implications from recent discoveries about how our brain generates our mental world. [Brain Science Podcast]
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May 6, 2009
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
MP3... David Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined. [Harvard University Press]
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April 8, 2009
Putting Our Heads Together
MP3... The open source movement launched over the past few decades by computer programmers has morphed into a parallel "open innovation" movement. The emergence of cross-sectoral "distributed intelligence" points to the promise of broader and more inclusive networks as the brightest future for the kind of innovation that will be necessary to address our most urgent challenges. [World of Possibilities]
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Inside the Teenage Brain
RealAudio / WindowsMedia... Many of us associate our teenage years with mood swings, risky behavior and a sense of invincibility. And scientists say there's a reason for that: adolescents brains are actually wired differently than brains in other stages of life. Kojo explores the latest research on the juvenile brain and whether we should rethink the way we interact with, teach and punish teenagers today. [Kojo Nnamdi]
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Smart Grid Technology: Building (or Rebuilding) Our Electricity Grid
RealAudio / WindowsMedia... Demand for electricity is expected to spike by some 40% in the next two decades. And experts warn blackouts and rolling brownouts aren't far away if the grid is not significantly upgraded. With 40 billion dollars in the stimulus plan for a 'new energy agenda,' we hear what must be done to upgrade our distribution system and ensure it can support solar power, wind power, electric vehicle technology and other items coming online in the 21st century. [Kojo Nnamdi]
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Leaving the Dollar Behind
MP3... Joshua Cooper Ramo, partner at Kissinger Associates and author of The Age of the Unthinkable, discusses China's efforts to divorce itself from the dollar and the future of US-China economic relations. And Lulu Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Tupelo Capital Management L.L.C and founding member of the Committee of 100, on how Chinese-American businesses are straddling the divide. [Brian Lehrer]
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