Posted: Jun 16th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language
Vice President of Content for WNET.org Stephen Segaller speaks with Robert McCrum, author and associate editor of Britain's Observer.
Robert McCrum is the author of the newly-released ...
Sharing Our Humanity through 9/11 Remembrances
THIRTEEN presents the first lecture in The National September 11 Memorial & Museum's series, "9/11, Today and Tomorrow."
Dave Isay, founder of ...
Posted: Apr 7th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal
Journalist and business writer Kirstin Downey celebrates her latest book, a portrait of this devoted public servant, a woman who changed the landscape of American ...
Posted: Mar 17th, 2010 | Comments: 1
How Do Our Brains Cope with Long-term Stress?
Arjia Rinpoche + Bruce S. McEwen
A survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution talks to the Rockefeller University neuroendocrinologist about how stress hormones act on the ...
Posted: Mar 10th, 2010 | Comments: 0
For "The Story of India," Worldfocus news anchor Daljit Dhaliwal interviews three prominent South Asians from the New York community. Issues range from the ...
Posted: Mar 3rd, 2010 | Comments: 0
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
Hannah Pakula presents her work The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China, which tells the epic story of ...
Posted: Feb 3rd, 2010 | Comments: 0
An interesting look at the origins of the "modern surveillance state" - author Jennifer Fronc discusses her book, "New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive ...
Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Modernism and the Global Diaspora
Museum professional and School of Visual Arts faculty member David Ross leads a discussion with Thelma Golden, Hou Hanru, Susan Hefuna and Vasif Kortun on the impact ...
Posted: Jan 20th, 2010 | Comments: 0
The Museum of American Finance hosts “Did Economists Get It Wrong?” – an expert panel on the different explanations of the current crisis on the 80th anniversary of ...
Posted: Jan 7th, 2010 | Comments: 0
150 Years of the Origin of Species
Nobel Laureate and neurobiologist Gerald Edelman, psychologist Paul Ekman, and anthropologist Terrence Deacon tell us how Charles Darwin has influenced science and their own research.
Presented by ...
Posted: Dec 23rd, 2009 | Comments: 1
