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  1. Arthur C. Clarke, Alvin Toffler, Margaret Mead

    What does the future look like from the past? This exciting program with three people that could not better represent the intelligentsia of futurism circa 1970. This recording is from a radio program called “Sound on Film”, a series on films and the people who make them. This episode is entitled “2001–Science Fiction or Man’s Future?” Recorded May 7th, 1970. Joseph Gelman is the moderator.

    At the time of this recording Arthur C. Clarke had recently collaborated on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick. Alvin Toffler’s mega-influential book, Future Shock, is about to be published. And Margaret Mead is the world’s foremost cultural anthropologist.

    An intriguing conversation that still has relevance today.

    2001–Science Fiction or Man’s Future?

    Length–54:18

    —Huffduffed by adewale 3 weeks ago

  2. Particle Pings: Sounds Of The Large Hadron Collider : NPR

    From http://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/132415764/particle-pings-sounds-of-the-large-hadron-collider?ft=1&f=1007

    —Huffduffed by tiffehr 2 years ago

  3. David Attenborough in conversation with Richard Dawkins | Science | guardian.co.uk

    How refreshing. Richard Dawkins talking to some one as smart as he is. This is SO much more interesting than belittling people’s views. A lovely dialogue.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/audio/2010/sep/11/evolution-dawkins

    —Huffduffed by PeteWilliams 2 years ago

  4. KQED Forum: Where Good Ideas Come From

    The book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" explores why certain environments seem to disproportionately spark the generation and sharing of good ideas. Author Steven Johnson joins us.

    —Huffduffed by PeteWilliams 2 years ago

  5. A Brief History of Mathematics 1: Newton and Leibniz

    The battle over the calculus. Professor Marcus du Sautoy reveals how the great hero of British science is rather less gentlemanly than his German rival. An astronaut and investment analyst pay homage to the enormous power of the calculus.

    From http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/maths

    —Huffduffed by adewale 2 years ago

  6. A Brief History of Mathematics 2: Leonard Euler

    The man who calculated as other men breathe. Professor Marcus du Sautoy on the mathematical omnivore without whom no history of mathematics is complete.

    From http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/maths

    —Huffduffed by adewale 2 years ago

  7. How Much is Too Much? RadioLab on Giving People Choices

    From http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/11/14/segments/113274

    —Huffduffed by PeteWilliams 2 years ago

  8. The Dunning-Kruger effect - Science Show

    The dumb get confident, while the intelligent get doubtful. That’s the conclusion that David Dunning and Justin Kruger came to when studying people’s perceptions of their own talents. What has now become known as the Dunning-Kruger effect helps describe why lay people often act as experts and inept pollies get our votes.

    —Huffduffed by adewale 3 years ago

  9. How Sci-Fi Shapes the Internet

    What if Rod Serling had a blog? Would Alfred Hitchcock Tweet? These great producers and directors brought suspense and irony to the popular medium of the time; television. How did their work shape the minds of the young people of the time who would grow up to create "our" Internet?

    From http://sxsw.com/node/4822

    —Huffduffed by bigskinnyboy 3 years ago

  10. RadioLab ‘Mortality’ segment: Life’s Limit

    "Until Leonard Hayflick came along, everyone thought cells were immortal. That they’d divide over and over again, forever. Hayflick torpedoes that theory and proved that there is limit. A very predictable limit: a magic number. To thank him, science textbooks everywhere now refer to that as ‘the Hayflick limit.’ "

    From http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/15/segments/71875

    (Thematically tied to my previous posted show from SciFri.)

    —Huffduffed by tiffehr 3 years ago

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