Podcasts
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• Recorded Jul 10, 2012In Nature's Compass , Carol Grant Gould and James L. Gould explore elegant navigation strategies used by familiar and rare species—from the fragile monarch butterfly to the honey bee to the homing pigeon—and demonstrate how an understanding of… more
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• Recorded Jun 26, 2012E. J. Dionne, Jr. is a senior fellow in government studies at the Brookings Institution, a political correspondent for the Washington Post , and a professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of numerous books, including Why Americans… more
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In Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco show how impoverished places across America—including nearby Camden, New Jersey—stand as a warning of… more
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Noted for her leadership in investigative journalism, former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett received her first shared Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for coverage of the AIDS crisis, and in 2001 she led a team to a Pulitzer for Public… more
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Renowned as an educator, researcher, author, and public intellectual, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot examines the culture of schools and socialization within families and communities. The Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard… more
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Andrew Blum is a correspondent at Wired and a contributing editor at Metropolis, whose writing about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times , The New Yorker… more
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• Recorded Jun 5, 2012A self-avowed "fermentation fetishist," author and activist Sandor Katz (aka Sandor Kraut) travels the world spreading the gospel of foods that are transformed and ennobled by bacteria, heralding the benefits of the ancient preservation technique… more
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• Recorded Jun 4, 2012Dubbed "America’s Mayor" by Al Gore, Ed Rendell served as Mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 1999. He revived the city's economy, expanded neighborhood services, and reformed the City's approach to poverty. As the Governor of Pennsylvania from… more
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• Recorded May 31, 2012For more than three decades, Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson—author of the internationally bestselling "Millenium" trilogy of Swedish crime thrillers that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo —were inseparable. Famous only in death,… more
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General Colin Powell served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush and National Security Advisor to President Reagan. The retired four-star general is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star,… more
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Celebrated for creating stories that express the shifting moods of the United States, Richard Ford is best known for his bestselling novel The Sportswriter and its 1995 sequel Independence Day —winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner… more
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll is the author of The Bin Ladens , a sprawling history of the bin Laden clan and a "psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal 9/11 mastermind" ( New York Times ), and Ghost Wars , a narrative… more
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Carlin Romano, critic-at-large of The Chronicle of Higher Education, spent 25 years as Literary Critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer , where he also served at various times as cultural reporter, general assignment city staffer, and correspondent… more
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Acclaimed for her powerful and poetic depictions of African American culture, Toni Morrison received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of… more
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• Recorded May 17, 2012Known for her ardent naturalist prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of Refuge , which simultaneously chronicled her mother's death from cancer—developed from nuclear testing in Nevada—and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird… more
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• Recorded May 16, 2012 Explicit Content(This podcast contains explicit content.) Philadelphia's own Buzz Bissinger is the author of the bestselling nonfiction classic on high school football, Friday Night Lights, which was turned into a successful film as well as an NBC television… more
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A New York Times op-ed columnist since 1999, Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work in international trade and economic geography . He is the author or editor of 23 books, including The Age of Diminished Expectations and The… more
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• Recorded May 14, 2012For his biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert A. Caro has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, twice won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book… more
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• Recorded May 11, 2012The first woman to hold the position of United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright served in the Clinton administration from 1996 to 2000 and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. Called "a remarkable story of… more
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No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen's brand of accessible wisdom is “tonic for the mind and soul” ( Booklist ), often rooted at the domestic level, but addresses universal issues. Quindlen earned the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for… more
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