1999 Shows

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Dates Broadcast Scientists and Visionaries, Skeptics and Revolutionaries
and News of the Future		 Listen or download Buy a Book
12/26/98 Y2K: The Bad News
 Interview with Ed Meagher, co-host of the twice a week "Y2K Investor" Radio Program in Washington, D.C. Before hosting "Y2K Investor", Mr. Meagher worked as a computer systems programmer and an application developer. He also has extensive experience in managing large computer-based projects.

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When Technology Fails: 
Significant Technological Disasters, Accidents, and Failures of the Twentieth Century
by Neil Schlager (Editor)

12/19/98

 Alien Abduction in America   
Interview with Jodi Dean , author of Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Professor Dean teaches political, feminist, and cultural theory at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She is also author of Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism After Identity Politics (1996) and is working on a new book, Three Fables of Conspiracy. Jodi Dean at her teaching gig and at UFOMind
 19:53
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12/5/98

 Odin and Native European-Americans
 Interview with Steve McNallen, leader of the Asatru Folk Assembly, a religious organization worshipping the old Norse Gods, Odin, Thor and the rest. I'll be talking with Mr. McNallen about the Kennewick Man, the remains of the oldest North American ever discovered, who appears to have been of European origin. The Asatru Folk Assembly has joined archeologists to fight Native American efforts to have the remains buried - as a Native American - rather than studied.
 18:08
Listen  in MP3		 The Masks Of Odin: Wisdom Of The Ancient Norse
 by Elsa-Brita Titchenell, Grace F. Knoche
11/14/98 Cold Fusion: Hype or Scientific Blinkers?
 Interview with Charles Platt, science fiction author, Wired contributor, and cryogenicist. Platt will discuss his recent Wired article on the progress being made in cold fusion energy. 

See also : Charles Platt Bio - Platt articles in Wired
Cold Fusion Links Page  - Cold Fusion Times - Infinite Energy Magazine

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11/7/98

Disabled Warriors in Queer Space: Subversive SF
 Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold author of the Miles Naismith/Vorkosigan science fiction series and winner of 4 Hugo Awards, discusses the role of sexuality, politics, bioethics and disability in her writing.  		30:05
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10/31/98
Faster than Light to the Stars: Space Propulsion Research  
 Marc Millis directs NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program at the Lewis Research Center. The BPP is building a research agenda around a wide variety of possible methods of interplanetary and interstellar propulsion methods, from those already being tested such as ion propulsion, to those completely speculative, such as Faster than Light (FTL) methods. 
18:50
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10/24/98 Population Trends  
 Brian Halweil is a Staff Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute. In this inteview he discusses the world population trends enumerated by Worldwatch in their latest report Beyond Malthus. In particular, the report focuses on the way that population pressure, environmental degradation, and infectious diseases such as AIDS are turning the clock back on the "demographic transition." The Third World is no longer on a steady trajectory to join Europe with low birth and low death rates. 
 20:19
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10/17/98 Space Policy and Apocalpypse Watch
 John Pike, Director of the Space Policy Project at the Federation of American Scientists, coordinates research, analysis and advocacy on military and civilian space policy, and other national security issues. Mr. Pike is also the coordinator of the new FAS project, Millenium Watch, tracking millenarian organizations.
 19:50
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10/10/98 Body Loathing at Escape Velocity
 Mark Dery is a cultural critic, who writes on the body, fringe culture, technology, mass media, and the arts. He is the author of Culture Jamming and Escape Velocity, a trenchant critique of body-loathing and cyberescapism in contemporary culture.
 23:33 Listen  in MP3
10/10/98 Polyamory
 Brett Hill, coeditor of Loving More magazine, which advocates polyamory and alternatives to monogamy 		  20:54
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10/3/98 A Short History of the Future
 Warren Wagar, historian, futurist, professor at SUNY Binghamton, expert on H.G. Wells  		22:06
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9/26/98 Future of the World and Self 
 Walter Truett Anderson, author, political scientist, environmental theorist, futurist, and columnist for the Pacific News Service 		  26:12
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9/19/98 Santeria
Lisa Rodriguez, on santeria, the Afrocaribbean religion

Santeria Links

Wiccan/Pagan Links in New England

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9/12/98

 Disabled Warriors in Queer Space: Subversive SF
 Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold author of the Miles Naismith/Vorkosigan science fiction series and winner of 4 Hugo Awards, discusses the role of sexuality, politics, bioethics and disability in her writing.  		30:05
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9/5/98 Gender, Genes and Space
 Martine Rothblatt, an international bioethics attorney, advocate of freedom from socially constructed gender dualisms, and partner in building space-based telecommunications 		  21:28
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8/29/98 Transhumanist Art
 Interview with Natasha Vita More artist, author, bodybuilder, and advocate of Transhumanist Art artist, author, bodybuilder, and advocate of Transhumanist Art		 Not available

 

 

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