We Have Signal: Live From Birmingham, Alabama Public Television (http://www.aptv.org/WHS/index.asp)
Are you a fan of Bill Frisell, The Dirtbombs, The Dodos, or Cordero? Do you have your ear to the ground for the latest rockabilly, garage, indie, punk, Seattle grunge, or new wave sound? Do you like to keep your fingers on the pulse [...]
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Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam. Gordon M. Goldstein. New York: Times Books, 2008.
With questions pressing about American involvement in Afghanistan, the Vietnam-war decision making chronicled in Lessons in Disaster has become a hot topic. The book’s author, Gordon M. Goldstein, wrote one of two op-ed pieces on Vietnam-Afghanistan [...]
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The Long Now Foundation. http://longnow.org
The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco is dedicated to very long-term thinking to foster responsibility for the next 10,000 years. Founded in 01966 (the Foundation uses 5-digit dates to solve the “deca-millennium bug” 8,000 years hence), it has undertaken several projects. The Rosetta Project aims to encode all known [...]
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Intelligence Squared: the U.S. Forum for Live Debate. Podcast: available from http://npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6263392 and ITunes. Supported by the Rosenkranz Foundation. Website: http://intelligencesquaredus.org
Following the model of the Oxford Union, an elite debating society at Oxford University, Intelligence Squared provides sharp, focused debates on highly specific questions by six speakers, three affirming the resolution, three opposing it. [...]
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