NPR’s Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Rose, author of The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker. On this Labor Day weekend, Rose discusses how society should rethink the value placed on the intelligence of so-called "blue collar workers."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3890457
Join Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an authority on positive psychology and flow, for a lecture on creativity. Dr. Csikszentmihalyi reviews the common traits of creative people and describe the environments that foster innovation.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?project=58&program=822
Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s leading intellectuals, father of modern linguistics, outspoken media and foreign policy critic and tireless…
http://www.archive.org/details/RadioDiscordia022NoamChomsky-PropagadaAndThePublicMind
MrMind, a humble chatbot, conducts The Blurring Test, a timely reversal of the Turing Test. Since 1998, he has challenged visitors to his site (www.mrmind.com) to convince him that they are human. So far, no one has.
MrMind’s creator, Peggy Weil, suggests that a new definition of human is in order: Who or what do we think we are in relation to our creations? Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Location: Amsterdam, PICNIC 2009, PICNIC Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/09