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Falling Behind In Science?
In recent weeks, a flurry of newspaper editorials have appeared, fretting that American Universities are not turning out enough graduates in science. Some even attribute our ignorance of quarks to an elitist intellectual preference for arts and literature.
Is Iraq More Like Somalia or Vietnam?
Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author,The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened, Where We Are Now, How We'll Win(St. Martin's Press, 2002)
- on Rep. Murtha's comments on the Iraq war
and
Andrew Bacevich director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and author,
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- agrees with John Murtha
» Michael Ledeen (The American Enterprise Institute)
» Andrew Bacevich (Boston University)
Borrow, Spend, Plunge
Chris Swann, US economics correspondent for the Financial Times
- on the plunge in consumer borrowing
» The Financial Times
All Arts and No Science Makes America a Dull Country?
Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College and contributor to the New York Review of Books
and
Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
and
Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- on the "crisis" in math and science education in America
» "The Truth About the Colleges" by Andrew Hacker in the New York Review of Books
» The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
» Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Choose Or Lose
Barry Schwartz professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and author, The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less (Harper Perennial, 2005)
» Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore)
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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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