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April 28, 2010
April 28, 2010
How Memories Get Made
Terry McDermott and Gary Lynch
The world-renowned neuroscientist Gary Lynch, subject of McDermott’s new book, discusses his decades-long obsessive pursuit to uncover the mechanism by…Podcast
January 29, 2008
January 29, 2008
The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
Fritjof Capra
Drawing on more than 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra reveals Leonardo-whose studies ranged from the flight patterns of…GalleryVideoPodcast
February 6, 2018
February 6, 2018
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Antonio Damasio
What moved humans to create cultures—intelligent systems including the arts, morality, science, government, and technology? The answer to this question…GalleryPodcast
January 23, 2018
January 23, 2018
Haiku in Zapotec: From Oaxaca to Japan and Back
Jane Hirshfield and Víctor Terán
Because of its similar celebration of the beauty of the natural world and focus on compactness, contemporary Zapotec-language poetry shares…GalleryPodcast
January 18, 2018
January 18, 2018
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
Winner of a 2017 Pulitzer Prize, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on the infamous 1971 Attica Prison riot…Video
October 21, 2017
October 21, 2017
Amenaza de extinción: Activismo y preservación del lenguaje
Bob Holman, Vincent Medina, Odilia Romero Hernández, y Virginia Carmelo
La esencia de lo que somos está envuelta en nuestro lenguaje. ¿Qué conocimiento humano se pierde cuando un lenguaje se…VideoPodcast
November 21, 2013
November 21, 2013
The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Albie Sachs
As an activist lawyer and leading member of the African National Congress, Albie Sachs lost his right arm and the…GalleryVideoPodcast
November 14, 2017
November 14, 2017
Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe
Víctor Cata, Bamby Salcedo, Maritza Sanchez
THIS PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. Anthropologists have traced the Meso-American acceptance of people of mixed gender…GalleryVideoPodcast
October 21, 2017
October 21, 2017
Threat of Extinction: Language Activism and Preservation
Bob Holman, Vincent Medina, Odilia Romero Hernández, and Virginia Carmelo with linguist Leanne Hinton
The essence of who we are is wrapped up in our language. What human knowledge is lost when a language…GalleryVideoPodcast
December 7, 2017
December 7, 2017