LECTURESBringing Cleveland's Great Ideas to the World.
Tyler Jacks: Genetics of Cancer
Tyler Jacks
May 1, 2009
00:53:08
Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, talks about his research on cancer and his career in genetics.
One Giant Leap: Space Exploration and the New Pioneers
Ken Davidian
May 13, 2009
01:31:08
Spencer Reiss, contributing editor of Wired Magazine, leads a panel discussion on the present and future of space exploration.
Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Bacevich
October 5, 2009
01:21:50
Conservative historian Andrew Bacevich discusses his provocative book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Bacevich joins Charles Sennott, founder of the on-line news service GlobalPost, to discuss the challenges the Obama administration faces in Afghanistan.
How Our Social Networks Shape Our Lives
How Our Social Networks Shape Our Lives
Nicholas Christakis
December 31, 1969
00:54:31
Harvard professor of sociology and health care policy Nicholas Christakis discusses Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
Mary Frances Berry: And Justice for All
Mary Frances Berry
February 19, 2009
00:56:34
Mary Frances Berry reads from her new book, And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America.
Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
John Freeman
October 13, 2009
00:44:16
Two innovators talk about employing a variety of narrative strategies to tell a story. Tim Kring, developer and executive producer of the blockbuster NBC show Heroes, gives a visual presentation about his use of transmedia storytelling. Reif Larson, whose The Collected Works of T. S.
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The Forum Network is presented as part of a new partnership with PBS and NPR, with generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. WCPN was an early partner with WGBH Boston and Public Broadcasting Atlanta in expanding this online lecture service.

The WCPN Forum Network service gives online audiences an opportunity to watch video lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, and policymakers. Forum Network lectures are hosted by community organizations and educational institutions in Cleveland and beyond. The Forum Network online lecture library currently includes thousands of video and audio files, produced by WCPN and other participating public broadcast stations from across the country. As part of a public broadcast station collaboration all lectures are aggregated into one common digital archive and made available to North Ohioan audiences as well as audiences worldwide, through the Forum Network.

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90.3 WCPN helps Northeast Ohioans connect with their world. The schedule includes news, talk, information and variety programs, complemented by arts and cultural coverage and musical offerings with an emphasis on jazz.

The roots of 90.3 WCPN extend back to 1938 when the Cleveland Board of Education launched WBOE, the first licensed educational, non-commercial radio station in the United States. In 2001, WCPN merged with WVIZ/PBS to form idea streams a multiple-media organization with a mission ìto strengthen our communities by providing distinctive, thought-provoking programs and services that enlighten, inspire, education and entertain. With that kind of mandate, 90.3 WCPN (a.k.a. Northeast Ohio’s NPR news station; The Sound of Ideas and The All Day Brain Food) sees itself as a community catalyst, as well as a source of valuable news, information and music programming, acquired from NPR, BBC, CBC, PRI and others. The station maintains a 24 hour-a-day schedule of local and national public radio programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Weekend America, Talk of the Nation, The Diane Rehm Show and its own award-winning 90.3@ 9, Around Noon, JazzTracks, and Jazz from the Northcoast. The station has been the recipient of hundreds of awards including frequent citations as the best news operation in Ohio (radio, large market) by the Society of Professional Journalists. It was also recently described by The Plain Dealer as Cleveland’s prestige radio station.
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