https://thoughtcast.org
Summary: ThoughtCast is a podcast and public radio interview program on authors, academics and intellectuals. I’m the host, Jenny Attiyeh, and my goal is to offer something that is glaringly absent from the media today: a bridge between the publications and pursuits of the academic world and a curious, informed, mainstream audience. By providing detailed, unhurried conversation with current writers and thinkers, I aim to create a show that is both informative and entertaining – a synergy between the media and the ivory tower. Check out my interview with Samuel Huntington, the provocative political scientist and author of "The Clash of Civilizations." Or listen to my program with Ilan Stavans, the hispanic 'public intellectual', author and and Latino literary critic. He talks about his identity as a Mexican-Jewish-American, about his controversial dictionary, "Spanglish," and his new book, "Dictionary Days." And thanks!
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Arianna Huffington, the author, journalist and founder of The Huffington Post, spoke with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
KCRW's Michael Silverblatt, the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, speaks with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Silverblatt is the real thing -- an authentic, genuinely interested interviewer who reads not only the latest book his guest has come to discuss, but the writer's entire body of work.
The comedian, writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh speaks with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books about If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, her first novel. The post Sandra Tsing Loh at the LA Times Book Festival appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
The comedian, writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh speaks with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books about If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, her first novel.
I interviewed George W. Bush during the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, when he was still a newcomer to the country at large, just the free and easy (and sober) Governor of Texas, the oldest son of the former President, George Bush Senior. The post George W. Bush, Beforehand appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
I interviewed George W. Bush during the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, when he was still a newcomer to the country at large, just the free and easy (and sober) Governor of Texas, the oldest son of the former President, George Bush Senior.
The Central branch of the Boston Public Library was the setting for the attorney and civic leader Larry DiCara's talk on his new book, Turmoil and Transition in Boston: A Political Memoir from the Busing Era.
The Central branch of the Boston Public Library was the setting for the attorney and civic leader Larry DiCara's talk on his new book, Turmoil and Transition in Boston: A Political Memoir from the Busing Era.
Note: this interview was broadcast by the WGBH affiliate WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station, and by KPIP, in Missouri. In this Faculty Insight interview, Sujata Bhatia, a lecturer on biomedical engineering at Harvard, and the assistant director for undergraduate studies in biomedical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, talks with […]
Note: this interview was broadcast by the WGBH affiliate WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station, and by KPIP, in Missouri. In this Faculty Insight interview, Sujata Bhatia, a lecturer on biomedical engineering at Harvard, and the assistant director for undergraduate studies in biomedical engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, talks with […]
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabilitated and released back into the wild. Some of these cubs have formed such strong bonds with Ben, that even when they’re fully grown, they still treat him as a member of the family, so to speak, and allow him special access to their bear secrets and behavior. The post Black Bear Orphans and the Man who Reads Their Minds appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued, rehabilitated and released back into the wild. Some of these cubs have formed such strong bonds with Ben, that even when they’re fully grown, they still treat him as a member of the family, so to speak, and allow him special access to their bear secrets and behavior.
Distance education. Online learning. We’ve been hearing a lot these days about this new tool for teaching, this new way of leveraging technology to spread access to education as widely as possible, with as little effort – it must be said – as possible. Harvard Extension School has been one of the pioneers in using […]
Distance education. Online learning. We’ve been hearing a lot these days about this new tool for teaching, this new way of leveraging technology to spread access to education as widely as possible, with as little effort – it must be said – as possible. Harvard Extension School has been one of the pioneers in using […]
Note: this interview was broadcast by the WGBH affiliate WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station and by KPIP in Missouri. You’ve heard the news. Online education is the next big, disruptive thing. It’s taking on the establishment, and the hidebound, bricks and mortar institutions of higher learning must change – or shrink. EdX, Coursera, […] The post EdX President Anant Agarwal’s Plan to Change the World appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
