Virtually Speaking

Jennifer Ouellette and Dave Goldberg explore the nature of a quantum mechanical universe. Dave teaches, writes Ask a Physicist & recently published  THE UNIVERSE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR Follow @askaphysicist @jenlucpiquant Give us a hand: check out Audible's free 30 day trial, or visit our virtual bookstore.

Stephanie Kelton, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the top-ranked blog New Economic Perspectives.  In this episode, she and  Gaius Publius discuss the basics of Modern Monetary Theory.  Also, at the bottom of the hour, Gaius Publius on the Unpeople of the World.  More information here. Also, help out the show by checking out Audible's free 30 day trial, or visit our virtual bookstore.

Jan 19, 2014 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows:  Meet the Press and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy here.  Follow @Bobblespeak

Moral Mondays & Truthful Tuesdays spreading to Georgia and South Carolina ... fast food strikes; #EcoFail in West Virginia and #GunFail. Commentators Allison Kilkenny & David Waldman. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Jay Ackroyd  moderates. Links and more here Virtually Speaking Sundays:All a counterpoint to the Sunday morning talk shows. The 2014 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Allison Kilkenny, Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman

Cybersecurity policy and privacy. Allan Friedman – Visiting Scholar at the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute at George Washington University’s Computer Science Dept. studies information security, cybersecurity policy and privacy issues. He is the author (with PW SInger) of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, 

Tom Levenson talks about The Poisoner's Handbook poison, the emergence of systematic chemistry as a tool, the issues we face of our ignorance of so much of the chemical universe — the West Virginia spill will be our proof text there — and more –  with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Deborah Blum. Follow @deborahblum @TomLevenson

Jan 12, 2014 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows —  Meet the Press. He creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy here. Follow @Bobblespeak

Current events and public policy. From the VS Media Panel, Gaius Publius (AmericaBlog) and Avedon Carol (Sideshow) discuss TPP, Chris Christie, GOP 2016, MSNBC. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Follow @Avedon_Says @Gaius_Publius Links from the program will be posted in the episode post at virtuallyspeaking.us The 2014 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Allison Kilkenny, Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman

Jay and Ian Welsh continue the discussion rerun last week regarding the need to develop a new ideology in the face of the failure of our technocratic centrist elite to  deal with the consequences of the petroleum economy: A powerful ideology is a scary thing. If your ideology isn’t strong enough, doesn’t create enough fervent belief that people will die for it, then it won’t change the world.  But if it does create that level of fervent belief, then it will be misused, so the question is simply: will this do more harm than good? An ideology which leads to us killing a billion or more people with climate change, let me posit, is a bad ideology.  At the end of its run, neo-liberalism will kill more people than Marxist-Leninism did, and will be thought of by our grandchildren as monstrous.  Most of them will no more be able to understand how we submitted to it or even believed in it than we can understand how Hitler or Stalin or PolPot or Mao came to power.  Hyperbole?  Not in the least, because the body count is going to be phenomenal.         

Stuart Zechman discusses the policy framework that underlies the US health care system with Joseph White, Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy at Case Western Reserve University. Professor White is also the author of Competing Solutions: American Health Care Proposals and International Experience.    

Dec 29, 2013 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows —  Meet the Press. He creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy at VirtuallySpeaking.us. Follow @Bobblespeak

Marcy reviews the year in domestic surveillance. And then cognitive dissonance in the Village, the formerly impervioius DC bubble. Political satire from Culture of Truth. Jay Ackroyd moderates. Follow @digby56 @emptywheel @JayAckroyd @Bobblespeak More at VirtuallySpeaking.us The 2014 Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Allison Kilkenny, Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, RJ Eskow, Stuart Zechman

Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research returns to talk with Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle. B0yle on strange science. "Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'" — Nature Follow @MarcAbrahams @B0yle   

Rerun from Nov 2013.  Ian Welsh has been blogging since 2003.  Formerly the Managing Editor of FireDogLake and the Agonist, Ian's work has appeared at Huffington Post, Alternet, and Truthout, as well as the now defunct Blogging of the President (BOPNews). In Canada his work has appeared in Pogge.ca and BlogsCanada. An editor, writer and social media consultant, Ian currently lives in Toronto. Baseline Predictions for the next sixty years Links posted at VirtuallySpeaking.us

Dec 29, 2013 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations on the Sunday Talk Shows —  Meet the Press. He creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy here. Follow @Bobblespeak