miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about science, aesthetics and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries with David Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard, author of Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation, and founder of Le Laboratoire. [download show] [MOI ho...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about asymmetrical warfare, Red Dawn and the Hmong in Fresno with Gary Brecher, “War Nerd” columnist from The eXile. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about the rise of cultural blogs, using one’s own life as novel source material and the genius of Rupert Thomson with literary blogger Maud Newton, founder of MaudNewton.com. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
BUFKIT GFS 2-meter (red) and Skin (blue) Temperatures VNY 06/20/08 12z Temperatures today at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills appear to be running about a degree hotter than yesterday, when a new record high for the date of 109°F was recorded at the campus weather...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about the encyclopedic novel, female creativity and Rush Limbaugh with novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux, author of Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
Part two of our special series on the future of books and reading: conversations with writer, thinker, entrepreneur and maker of mischief Kevin Smokler [site] and Dave Weich, director of marketing and development at Portland, Oregon's Powell's Books.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about art school, the Milgram Experient and Andres Serrano photos as bible covers with graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd, the man responsible for countless bestselling (and some not-quite-bestselling) book jackets. His new novel is The Learners: The Book After The Cheese Monkeys...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
Part one of a special Marketplace of Ideas series on the future of books and reading: conversations with Daniel Menaker and Odile Isralson, host and executive producer of Titlepage, the first book-themed internet TV show.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
SFSU 300mb Jetstream Analysis - 5/16/08 12z Chance of a Shower Next Weekend? An unseasonably strong and extended Pacific jetstream has resulted in a very high amplitude high pressure ridge over the West Coast with record and near record temperatures seen from Seattle to San...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about the climate change debate, the evolutionary psychology of art and bad academic writing with Denis Dutton [site], founder of Arts & Letters Daily and editor of Philosophy and Literature.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about swinging, eating, strip clubs, lying, gambling, consumption and pornography with Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them).
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about personality, innovation and openness in cities and "mega-regions" with urban theorist Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
A conversation about experimental philosophy with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and author of Experiments in Ethics.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
The second part of a conversation about life in film and literature in Japan and America with translator, filmmaker and Japan expert John Nathan, author of Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere.
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 16 years ago
The first part of a conversation about life in film and literature in Japan and America with translator, filmmaker and Japan expert John Nathan, author of Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere.