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  1. Andrew Blum | Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet - Free Library Podcast

    http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/index.cfm?podcastID=991

    Recorded 6/7/2012

    Andrew Blum is a correspondent at Wired and a contributing editor at Metropolis, whose writing about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, and Popular Science. Blum studied English and architecture history at Amherst College, and received his M.A. in human geography from the University of Toronto. From tiny fiber optic cables buried beneath Manhattan’s busy streets to the 10,000-mile-long undersea cable connecting Europe and West Africa, Blum chronicles the intriguing development of the internet in his new book, Tubes.

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  2. Simon Schama | The American Future: A History

    The author of many books, including The Embarrassment of Riches and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Rough Crossings, Simon Schama is a Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. A cultural essayist for the New Yorker, he has written and presented more than 30 documentaries for the BBC and PBS, including A History of Britain and The Power of Art, winner of an International Emmy Award. Using the 2008 presidential campaign as a launching point, Schama’s The American Future (also a BBC documentary) explores America’s identity through its military might, religious fervor, complicated relationship with immigration, and staggering abundance.

    http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/?podcastID=408

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