Popular Lectures

National Parks: America's Best Idea
National Parks: America's Best Idea
Ken Burns
December 31, 1969
00:50:31
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss their new six-part PBS documentary series The National Parks: America's Best Idea.
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Conversation with Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf
October 20, 2009
00:07:43
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf speaks with anchor Marco Werman in the studio of PRI’s The World at WGBH. He answers questions about US-Pakistani relations and the battle against extremists in Pakistan. Other stories from PRI’s The World.
Ceaseless Society: Is 24/7 Good for Us?
Jon Kabat-Zinn
April 25, 2006
01:49:18
Jon Kabat-Zinn, faculty member at UMASS Medical School, Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, and author of Meditation for Optimum Health, Full Catastrophe Living, and Wherever You Go,
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I
Paul Farmer
December 31, 1969
00:45:19
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democr
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Postcards from China
James Fallows
January 25, 2009
01:27:47
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, who has been living in China for the last two years, discusses his book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, with the founder of Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, Dr. Lincoln Chen.
Contemplating Creatures: Irene Pepperberg and the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence
Contemplating Creatures: Irene Pepperberg and the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence
Irene Pepperberg
December 31, 1969
01:13:46
National Public Radio host Robin Young interviews Alex & Me author Dr. Irene Pepperberg, who has been studying the intelligence and reasoning abilities of the African gray parrot for more than 30 years.