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http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/jun/15/thinking-through-web/
Nicholas Carr, journalist and author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains talks about the interaction of the brain with technology, an issue he first raised in The Atlantic article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Duration : 0:8:52
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http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/jun/09/cognitive-surplus/
Clay Shirky, faculty member at the Interactive Telecommunications program at NYU and the author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, discusses how the internet is changing how we think and collaborate.
Duration : 0:5:53
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http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/may/27/word-play/
Linguist, lexicographer and the new “On Language” columnist for the New York Times Magazine Ben Zimmer talks about the latest in language.
Duration : 0:8:8
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http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/2010/may/19/yundi/
Success came early to pianist Yundi Li . At age 18, he won first prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland, and the following year launched a spate of recordings for the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label. He now goes by simply Yundi. With his pop idol looks, he’s a household [...]
Writer Junot Diaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” and he tells Kurt Andersen about how writing a book transforms you.
Recorded in WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space on May 6, 2010.
Duration : 0:1:44
The group Local Natives is headquartered in the band-rich Silver Lake neighborhood in Los Angeles. But several members hail from suburban Oran ge County, where they once lived in a filthy crash pad dubbed Gorilla Manor. It lends its name to the bands debut, an epic collection of three-part vocal harmonies, elegant guitar noodling, and [...]
Brian Lehrer’s video picks for the week of 5/5/10.
Be sure to tune in to Brian on CUNY TV each Wednesday at 7:30pm and on WNYC Radio every day at 10am!
Duration : 0:2:8
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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2010/04/30/segments/154200
In 2006, OK Go made music and internet history with the video for their song “Here It Goes Again.” The clip, which featured the band performing a complex dance routine on a set of treadmills, received millions of views on YouTube and turned scores of new listeners on to their music. [...]
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http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/apr/08/naval-operations/
Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, talks with Brian Lehrer.
Duration : 0:9:54
Brian Lehrer’s video picks for the week of 4/7/10.
Be sure to tune in to Brian on CUNY TV each Wednesday at 7:30pm and on WNYC Radio every day at 10am!
Duration : 0:7:42
