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  1. A Conversation with John Hodgman | StarTalk Radio Show

    “Will you donate your body to be stuffed and put on display (at the American Museum of Natural History)?” This is one of the many questions John Hodgman poses to Neil during their monumental meeting of minds. From the Mac vs. PC debate to ‘geeks versus jocks,’ John and Neil provide more information than you require on the questions and challenges that face our age. Astrophysicist Charles Liu sits in the co-host chair this week, and comments on areas far beyond his usual expertise.

    http://startalkradio.net/2011/02/27/a-conversation-with-john-hodgman

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  2. Gina Trapani crowdsources for the White House

    What if President Obama could talk regularly to ordinary people and scientists to ask them about issues? That’s the vision of ThinkTank, an open source project to use a technique called "crowdsourcing" to get answers to America’s problems.

    ThinkTank’s server software is available to everyone, not just people whose address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s designed to let a user put out a question on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, and collect and curate responses. Users can then separate responses by category, note the source of the information, and collate the comments into useful knowledge, said Gina Trapani, project director at Expert Labs’, the not-for-profit developing the project.

    Gina is a blogger, author, developer of productivity tools, and founding editor of Lifehacker. She currently blogs at Smarterware. She hosts the This Week in Google podcast with Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. Her most recent book is The Complete Guide to Google Wave.

    From http://blogs.computerworld.com/15893/thinktank_gina_trapani

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  3. Obama’s new words, Avatar in the Amazon and a Chinese satire

    As Obama enters the second year of his presidency, he’s dropped some expressions — “war on terror”, “Af-Pak”, even “Middle East”. His administration has invented a few too: “remotedly piloted aircraft” (drones) and “overseas contingency operations” (wars). Also, a special screening of Avatar in Ecuador for indigenous groups. What did these Shuar and Achuar speakers think of Avatar’s invented language, Na’vi? Finally, a new online satirical movie is all the rage in China. It features a Chinese double-entendre phrase aimed at avoiding government censorship. The movie also includes a fantastic “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” rant.

    http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/05/obamas-new-words-avatar-in-the-amazon-and-a-chinese-satire/

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  4. Podcast: President Obama

    By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Click Below to Listen President Obama, fallen to earth from the euphoria of his inauguration, is running against a ticking clock. Congressional Democrats are growing impatient with his muscular approach to Afghanistan, Iran is testing his self-imposed deadline to come to the bargaining table over its nuclear ambitions, and next year’s midterm campaigns will soon bear down on his legislative agenda. But the biggest threat to his political potency may be the slow recovery of the American economy, a challenge that is largely out his hands.

    With Richard W. Stevenson, deputy Washington bureau chief, and Mark Leibovich, a Washington correspondent, Political Points host David D. Kirkpatrick reviews President Obama’s first year in office and his relations with the press.

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  5. Change v2

    Obama has awoken a once in a century passion for reform. What will it take to make it work? What would "work" mean?

    Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School

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  6. Science Weekly Extra: Professor Robert Park

    Alok Jha speaks to Professor Robert Park—author of Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science—about religion, the Templeton Foundation, and Barack Obama.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/audio/2009/feb/02/science-weekly-extra-podcast-robert-park

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  7. Political Points: Special Inauguration Edition

    From: http://nytimes.com/

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  8. The Campaign Trail

    Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss the McCain campaign’s robocalls and other hardball tactics, Obama’s McCain-equals-Bush strategy, and Joe the Plumber.

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