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  1. Neal Stephenson on Stranger Than Fiction

    Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.

    In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fast”—innovation has really slowed down.

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  2. Margaret Atwood on Stranger Than Fiction

    In the third episode, Wu talks to Margaret Atwood, author of science-flavored dystopian fiction like Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. In 2012, she published In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, in which she explored science fiction as an author and as a reader.

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  3. Meg Wolitzer’s Novel The Interestings

    Meg Wolitzer discusses her new novel, The Interestings, a panoramic story about what becomes of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and even envy can play in close friendships. It follows a group of teenagers who met at summer camp in the 1970s into adulthood.

    http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2013/apr/09/meg-wolitzers-novel-interestings/

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  4. Drabblecast 69 – The Story-Teller | The Drabblecast

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  5. Literary Festival 2013: Altered States: what happens when we tell stories about science? - Video and audio - News and media - Home

    Speaker(s): Greg Artus, Richard Bronk, Aifric Campbell, Professor Roger Kneebone Chair: Dr Nick Russell

    Recorded on 27 February 2013 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

    Is truth a casualty in the stories we tell about science? Is there a conflict between narrative truth and historical truth? Can fiction illuminate scientific themes? What are the challenges of presenting scientific topics in the media? How do scientists tell stories to raise capital? Greg Artus lectures in politics, philosophy and business ethics at Imperial College. His research interests include the nature of human action and perception, and the work of Wittgenstein and Heidegger.

    Richard Bronk is Visiting Fellow in LSE’s European Institute. Richard is is a writer and part-time academic, with particular expertise in the history of ideas, philosophy of economics, comparative corporate governance and European political economy. His books include The Romantic Economist - Imagination in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

    Aifric Campbell is a writer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Her latest novel On the Floor was longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize. She teaches at Imperial College.

    Roger Kneebone is professor of surgical education at Imperial College. He is a clinician and educationalist who leads a multidisciplinary research group at Imperial College. Roger has an international profile as an academic and innovator and is a 2011 National Teaching Fellow. In 2013 Roger will take up a prestigious Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowship.

    Nick Russell was a college science lecturer, freelance journalist, and vocational science curriculum developer before organizing and teaching postgraduate science communication programmes at Birkbeck College and Imperial College. He was head of Department of Humanities at Imperial College before he retired and is now emeritus reader in Science Communication at Imperial College.

    This event forms part of LSE’s 5th Space for Thought Literary Festival, taking place from Tuesday 26 February - Saturday 2 March 2013, with the theme ‘Branching Out’.

    http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1779

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  6. Opening The Book

    The book has stayed pretty much the same for over 500 years: a bunch of paper pages between covers. It’s been both finite and easily grasped. But our digitally-connected world is forcing us to re-imagine what books could be.

    Participants in the program:

    Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute For the Future of the Book, New York.

    James Bridle, writer, publisher, editor, technologist, London.

    Hugh McGuire, founder of pressbooks and libravox, co-editor of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, Montreal.

    Kylie Mirmohamadi, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

    Sue Martin, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

    http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/02/25/opening-the-book/

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  7. RSA - Find a Voice Not Read a Script: Looking for the Heart of English

    RSA Debate 23rd Jan 2013; 18:00 (full recording including audience Q&A)

    What are the priorities for a new English curriculum? Should it enable our children and young people to be creative and communicate effectively in a global context, or is the most important thing to read and write accurately? Looking for the Heart of English involved 400 teachers discussing what really matters in learning English. The government has made proposals which do not meet the high expectations of these teachers and many others. The launch of Meeting High Expectations: will the new primary curriculum be good enough for our children? will bring out the vital learning which will enable young people to find their voices.

    This event is part of the continuing conversation about English teaching and what learners really need. The high profile discussion will contribute to the consultation on the government proposals for a new curriculum.

    The discussion will include those who contributed to the publication, including Michael Boyd, former artistic director, RSC; Chris Meade, co-director, If:book; Roger Billing, headteacher, Abbots Langley Primary School; and Jenny Lubuska, head of English, Hayes School.

    Chair: Sue Horner, leader in education and the arts and chair, RSA Academies Board.

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/find-a-voice-not-read-a-script-looking-for-the-heart-of-english

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  8. Science Weekly podcast: Royal Society science book prize | Science | guardian.co.uk

    This week’s show is dedicated to a discussion of the six books shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.

    Next week the winner of the prestigious Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books will be announced. Previous winners have included Jared Diamond (twice), Stephen Hawking, Steve Jones, Bill Bryson and Stephen Jay Gould.

    To discuss the merits of the shortlisted books (see below), Alok Jha is joined by one of the prize judges, Kim Shillinglaw, who is commissioning editor for science and natural history at BBC TV, and by science writer Ruth Francis, formerly of head of press at Nature Publishing Group.

    During the course of this week the Guardian will review all the books online. We’re also giving away two complete sets of the shortlisted titles in our usual science trivia competition.

    • The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
    • The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
    • The Information by James Gleick
    • My Beautiful Genome by Lone Frank
    • Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
    • The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2012/nov/19/science-weekly-podcast-science-book-prize

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  9. Scriptnotes, episode 3: Outlining your screenplay: index cards and whiteboards | A ton of useful information about screenwriting from screenwriter John August

    The process of outling a script, from index cards to whiteboards to spreadsheets, plus more about post-fatherhood screenwriting.

    http://johnaugust.com/2011/kids-cards-whiteboards-and-outlines

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  10. Storyboard: How Charles Yu Uses Sci-Fi to Explore the Human Condition

    If anyone tries to tell you that science fiction isn’t literary, please point them to the work of Charles Yu. His debut novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, used the conventions of sci-fi to tell the deeply emotional story of a time-travel technician searching for his missing father.

    His latest genre-bending effort is Sorry Please Thank You, a short-story collection in which people outsource their bad days and zombies go on dates.

    In this episode of the Storyboard podcast, Yu talks to Wired senior editor Adam Rogers about making metaphors literal, how sci-fi tropes let him explore the inner lives of his characters, and his particular brand of futuristic ennui.

    http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/07/storyboard-charles-yu/

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