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  1. ScreenwritingU: The Avengers - An Interview with Screenwriter Zak Penn

    Hal Croasmun of ScreenwritingU interviewed screenwriter Zak Penn about his movie THE AVENGERS. THE AVENGERS is directed by Joss Whedon.

    In this interview, Zak talks about:

    How to adapt a comic into a screenplay. Making a story emotional and getting us connected to the main character. Surviving competing interests — the comic, the fans, and the studio! How deals like X2, The Incredible Hulk, and The Avengers came together for him. His unique perspective on what it takes to succeed as a screenwriter.

    http://www.screenwritingu.com/screenwriting-articles/67-screenwriting-interviews/182-the-avengers-interview.html

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  2. Science Friday Archives: Birdfeeders and Evolution

    What does it take to change a species? New research details how people putting out birdfeeders may have influenced the evolution of a species of songbirds. Writing in the journal Current Biology, researchers describe how one species of European songbird, the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), has been split into two reproductively isolated groups in fewer than 30 generations. One group migrates to the southwest, the other to the northwest, overwintering in either Spain or the United Kingdom. The researchers found that the northwestern-migrating birds, which take advantage of birdfeeders in the UK, had developed rounder wings and longer, narrower bills than the southwestern birds. Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow. Dec 4th 2009

    http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200912045

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  3. Radiolab — ‘What Does Technology Want?’

    Are new ideas and new inventions inevitable? Are they driven by us or by a larger force of nature?

    In this conversation recorded as part of the New York Public Library series LIVE from the NYPL, Steven Johnson (author of Where Good Ideas Come From) and Kevin Kelly (author of What Technology Wants) try to convince Robert that the things we make—from spoons to microwaves to computers—are an extension of the same evolutionary processes that made us. And we may need to adapt to the idea that our technology could someday truly have a mind of its own.

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  4. Climate change adaptation - a regional and rural perspective - RN Future Tense - 14 April 2011

    Communities in regional and rural Australia often get forgotten in discussions about climate change, but farmers and local government authorites are at the frontline of climate change adaptation.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2011/3185860.htm

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  5. Wired interview with Charlie Kaufman - Part Four

    Kaufman’s career, from sitcoms to Adaptation

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  6. Howard Bloom’s “Global Brain” 10 Years On

    Many of us feel that the Web is ushering in a new era of global consciousness. But Howard Bloom thinks life has been a collective mind from the very beginning. He made the case in his book "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century." Host Jon Udell speaks with Bloom who reviews the themes of that book — group selectionism, complex adaptive systems, collective learning — and considers what has, and hasn’t, changed since the book was published in 2000.

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