Whatâs it like in the slum settlements of Mumbai? Katherine Boo, staff writer for The New Yorker, spent three years reporting on the Annawadi settlement near the cityâs airport.
http://podcast.co.uk/kera-think-podcast-life-death-and-hope-in-a-mumbai-undercity/
Interview met Frank Close, over de Higgs boson, CERN en Quantum field theory. Met leuke stukjes geschiedenis. Nav de publicatie van het boek “The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe”.
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How many earth-like or at least habitable planets might be out there for us to discover? KERA talk with planet hunter and Harvard University Professor of Astronomy Dimitar Sasselov. His new book is âThe Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planetâ
http://podcast.co.uk/kera-think-podcast-hunting-for-alien-worlds/
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John Colapinto praat over het verhaal achter bekende merknamen zoals Blackberry, Powerbook, Swiffer en meer.
[2009-12-03 13:00:00] How do today’s arts education programs prepare students to make a decent living in the arts? We’ll talk with Jose Antonio Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts and Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music at Southern Methodist University.
[2009-12-07 13:00:00] What should we know about the world that’s just not getting reported and how would a better global understanding help Americans be better citizens? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Lisa Ling who’s in town to speak to the Brinker International Forum at the AT&T Performing Arts Center tonight.
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[2009-11-17 13:00:00] Is Frisco, Texas, the capitol of over-the-top Christmas excess? We’ll talk this hour with Washington Post pop culture writer Hank Stuever, author of the new book, "Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
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[2009-11-18 12:00:00] Why did the banking system almost collapse last year? And who was responsible? We’ll spend this hour with Charles Gasparino, author of the new book "The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System" (Harper Business, 2009).