miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
The Central Maryland Transportation Alliance has released "Central Maryland TOD Strategy: A Regional Action Plan For Transit-Centered Communities. "The continuing and expanding prosperity of Central Maryland will rely on careful and prudent transit investments that continue to link jobs and...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation about religion and falsity with Joel Grus, humorist, atheist and author of Your Religion is False.
Pierce College / Pierce College - 15 years ago
Applications are being accepted for paid freelance positions with The Pioneer for Winter Quarter 2014. You need not have had prior journalism experience; top priorities are good writing skills (or photography or design skills) and an excellent work ethic. I can train you in all things publication; h...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and founding blogger of Marginal Revolution. Cowen's new book is Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation with Greg Milner, who's written music and technology journalism for Spin, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Slate, Salon and Wired. His new book, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music, tracing the evolution of music's capture from Edison cylinders to vinyl album...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation about the early works of filmmaker Shohei Imamura, who brought an entirely new irreverent aesthetic and sociological sensibility to the 1960s Japanese film scene, with Kim Hendrickson, executive producer at The Criterion Collection and producer of their new box set Pigs, Pimps and Pro...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation about bringing intelligent video to the internet with Brian Gruber, founder and executive chairman of FORA.tv, the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates from the world's top universities, think tanks and conferences.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
Changing demographics and housing preferences as well as concerns about quality of life are boosting the demand for walkable urbanism and transit-oriented development in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region as elsewhere in the U.S. The Twin Cities’ real estate market must be able to provide for t...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation with novelist, journalist, memoirist and traveler Lawrence Osborne, author, most recently, of Bangkok Days.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation about rock music's foremost intellectual "non-musician." producer and cultural theorist with David Sheppard, author of On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation about the dissolution of the friendship between two very different philosophers with John T. Scott, professor of political science at the University of California, Davis and co-author with Robert Zaretsky of The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume and the Limits of Human Understandi...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation with Alain de Botton, author of fiction, nonfiction, journalism and various hybrids thereof. Following treatises on Proust, philosophy, travel and architecture, de Botton's newest book of "philosophical journalism" is The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation about the rise, fall and rise of the long-playing album format both technologically and artistically with journalist Travis Elborough, author of The Vinyl Countdown: The Album from LP to iPod and Back Again.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
A conversation with writer, speaker, blogger and student of the creative mind Merlin Mann. In 2004, Mann founded 43Folders, a blog and community focused on tips, tricks, tools and techniques designed to improve one's productivity, and in late 2008, he took the site in a new direction, toward the hab...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 15 years ago
Reconnecting America is co-publishing the book Moving Minds: Conservatives and Transit, a collection of studies by renown conservative transit advocates Paul Weyrich and William Lind. Weyrich, who in 1977 founded the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative Washington, DC, think tank that fo...