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Scientists and Visionaries, Skeptics
and Revolutionaries
and News of the Future
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| 12/25/99 |
Future Sisters of Sappho
Nicola Griffith, a science
fiction writer (Ammonite,
Slow River, The Blue Place)
whose protagonists have been lesbians, talks about her work
and the role of sexuality in SF.
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23:59
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| 12/11/99 |
Babies, Animals and the Greatest Good for All Sentient Beings
Interview Peter Singer, author of Animal
Liberation, Should the Baby Live?, and A
Darwinian Left, among many other works. Since Dr. Singer's recent
appointment as at Princeton University he has been subjected to a storm
of controversy
as a result of his views on the ethics of euthanizing disabled newborns.
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30:22
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11/20/99
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Think Mars: Buy Shares Now
Interview with Justin Talbot-Stern, Chairman
and Co-Founder of ThinkMars
Inc. Justin
is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Aeronautics
and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His MIT
research with the Lean Aerospace Initiative is in the field of On-Orbit
operations. Justin has experience in engineering design, operations and
management, having worked at NASA (human spaceflight system design) and
several airlines (operations and management).
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21:11
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11/6/99
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Socialism and Intervention in the Balkans
Bogdan Denitch, a Yugoslav-American sociologist, chair of the Institute
for Transitions to Democracy, chair of the annual Socialist
Scholars Conference and co-chair of the Democratic
Socialists of America and frequent U.S. rep to the Socialist
International, talks about his
support for intervention in the Balkans.
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Ethnic
Nationalism: The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia
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10/30/99 |
Feminism and Genetics
Mary Mahowald, a philosopher and medical ethicist, talks about her
book Genes,
Women and Equality
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29:17
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Genes,
Women, Equality
by Mary Briody Mahowald
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10/23/99 |
Foretelling Death and the Perils of
Prophecy
Sociologist and doctor Nicholas
Christakis talks about his new book, Death
Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care
*Coverage
of Christakis' work on CNN and in the New
York Times*
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28:23
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10/11/99 |
Gene Patenting and Health Care
Reform
Dr. J.
discusses gene patenting, health care reform, and other recent news. |
29:16
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9/25/99 |
Organized Atheism on U.S. Campuses:
An Expose
Interview with Daniel Farkas, President of the Campus
Freethought Alliance, the leading atheist organization on American
campuses
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7/26/99 |
Writing SF in the Absence of Revolution
Interview with SF author Terry
Bisson, author of Fire
on the Mountain
Bisson's bio
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20:48
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7/17/99 |
Ribofunkstering
Interview with SF author Paul DiFilippo,
author of the RiboFunk
Manifesto.
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31:00
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7/10/99 |
Radical Futurism
Interview with Jim Dator on
Future
Studies
Jim Dator is founder and director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures
Studies, and author of numerous papers on the future
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29:47
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The
Age of Transition : Trajectory of the World-System, 1945-2025
by Terence K. Hopkins, Immanuel Wallerstein
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7/3/99 |
Freeze Me Before I Die Again
Interviews with Robert Ettinger on
Cryonics
Founder of the Cryonics
Institute, and author of The Prospect of
Immortalityand with Ralph Merkle on
Nanotechnology and
Cryonics
An engineer, Director of Alcor, and theorist of nanotechnology
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Nanomedicine,
Volume 1:
Basic Capabilities
by Robert A. Freitas Jr. |
| 6/19/99 |
Giant Rocks from Space
Interview with Brian Marsden on
catastrophic asteroid
impacts
Dr. Brian G. Marsden is an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in
Cambridge, Massachusetts specializing in the observation of near-earth objects (NEOs), and
a member of the Board of Directors of SpaceGuard, an international organization promoting NEO observation and preparedness.
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31:13
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5/8/99
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Nanosocialism
David Berube is an associate
professor of speech communication at University of South Carolina. He is author of many
articles on nanotechnology and posthumanism, and is working on Posthumanism
for Sage Publications. We will be discussing his essay "Nanosocialism."
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30:08
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| 5/1/99 |
Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
Mark Dery is a cultural critic, who writes on the
body, fringe culture, technology, mass media, and the arts. He is the author of
The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, and Escape Velocity, a trenchant critique of body-loathing and
cyberescapism in contemporary culture.
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31:50
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4/10/99 |
Bioterrorism: Preventive and
Public Health Approaches
Interview with Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, PhD, a
microbiologist teaching at the State University of New York at Purchase, directs the
Program on Biological and Toxin
Weapons Treaty Verification for the Federation of American Scientists. |
23:41
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| 4/3/99 |
Post-Humanism and the
Meta-Man
Interview with Gregory Stock , who has explored the larger evolutionary significance of humanity's
recent technological progress for many years, and examined the subject at length in his
1993 book, Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism.
Currently Dr. Stock is directing the Program on Science,
Technology, and Society at UCLA and is a visiting senior fellow
at the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. A Ph.D. in Biochemistry
and MBA, Dr. Sotck is also the author of the best-selling Book of Questions series, the
next of which will be A Book of Questions about the Future.
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29:41
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Engineering
the Human Germline :
An Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering
the Genes We Pass to Our Children
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| 2/30/99 |
Fringe Apocalyptic Culture in the U.S.
Interview with Alex Heard, author
Apocalypse Pretty Soon, a travelogue/review of
millenial and utopian groups in the U.S. including: UFO cults, millenial Christians, Earth
Changes, micro-nationalists, and life extenders.
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29:17
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| 2/13/99 |
Doug Ross on ER: Ethical Doctor?
Interview with John
Lantos, Section
Chief of General Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. The author
of Do We Still Need Doctors?, Dr. Lantos is the
nation's leading pediatric ethicist. We will discuss the controversial career of
pediatrician Dr. Doug Ross
on the television show E.R., and digress into human growth hormone, assisted
suicide, the Drug War, and other topics. |
28:00
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| 2/6/99 |
Viridian
Manifesto: Sexy, High-Tech
Green Politics
Interview with Bruce Sterling the chief ideologist and central figure in the cyberpunk science fiction
subgenre. His novels include Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), Heavy
Weather (1994), Holy Fire (1996), and Distraction (1999).
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27:55
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| 1/30/99 |
Socialism on American
Campuses:
Interview with Jessica
Shearer, national youth organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States. The
DSA Youth Section is active on thirty campuses, and is currently organizing in Connecticut. The
DSA is the U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, the global alliance of labor,
socialist and social democratic parties, such as the eleven socialist parties currently in
control of most of Europe. In the U.S., however, the DSA works mainly with the left wing
of the Democratic Party, in particular with the growing Progressive Caucus in
Congress, and their Progressive Challenge.
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25:00
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| 1/16/99 |
Y2K: The Good News
Interview with Phil Decaprio, spokesperson for the Millenium Program Team, the Y2K remediation group working
to fix the Millenium bug in the systems of Northeast Utilities. NU provides electricity to most of
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
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When
Technology Fails:
Significant Technological Disasters, Accidents, and Failures of the
Twentieth Century
by Neil Schlager (Editor)
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