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Kay Redfield Jamison: Nothing Was the Same
Kay Redfield Jamison
October 1, 2009
Johns Hopkins professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. Jamison's first memoir, An Unquiet Mind, touchingly told the story of her struggle with mental illness.
Hired Guns? / For Sale: Motherhood
Michael Sandel
October 11, 2009
00:55:10
Lecture Nine: "Hired Guns?" During the Civil War, men were conscripted to fight in the war -- but draftees were allowed to pay hired substitutes to fight in their place. Professor Sandel asks students -- was this policy an example of free-market exchange?
A Lesson in Lying / A Deal Is A Deal
Michael Sandel
October 25, 2009
00:55:04
Lecture Thirteen: "A Lesson in Lying" Immanuel Kant's stringent theory of morality allows for no exceptions; he believed that telling a lie, even a white lie, is a violation of one's own dignity. His theory is put to the test with a hypothetical case.
Fall of the Berlin Wall Series
Fall of the Berlin Wall Series
7 Lectures
Lectures curated around the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in Europe.
Audio-only
Conservation of China's Historical and Cultural Heritage
Jin Hongkui
April 7, 2006
01:25:35
A panel of distinguished experts discuss the values of some of China's national heritage sites, their environmental challenges, and the efforts and new technology employed to conserve them.
David Grann: Lost City of Z
David Grann
June 6, 2009
01:15:26
New Yorker writer David Grann talks about his adventure into the hazardous Amazon jungle to retrace the footsteps of the great Colonel Percy Fawcett, who ventured there in 1925 in search of t
Gorilla Conservation and the Karisoke Center
Katie Fawcett
November 13, 2007
01:04:50
Katie Fawcett speaks about the current conservation status of gorillas and the Karisoke Center, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year and is one of the longest running field research programs in the world.
Audio-only
Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Kati Marton
December 4, 2006
00:49:11
Marton offers a haunting tale of the wartime Hungarian diaspora, and the nine Hungarians who achieved world fame who are profiled in the book including: Nuclear scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, game theorist and computer pioneer John von Neuman, photojournalists Robert Capa and