listeningtowords - featured lectures and locations

Lecture: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change

Brian Fagan

Tags: science, globalwarming, climatechange
Media: mp3, ogg vorbis

Location: Museum of Fine Arts

Total Lectures: 2

Lecture: Ohio University Spring Literary Festival 2006

Jim Harrison

Tags: literature, writers, writing, fiction
Media: mp3, real audio

Location: Nobel Prize

Total Lectures: 13

Lecture: Bush in Winter: Democracy, the Elections, and Bush's Iraq War

Mark Danner

Tags: history, unitedstates, iraq, georgewbush, iraqwar
Media: mp3

Location: Amherst College

Total Lectures: 23

Lecture: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories

Clay Shirky

Tags: tags, libraryscience, informationtheory
Media: flash video, mp3, ogg vorbis

Location: School of Visual Arts

"SVA is a fine art and graphic art school in New York City specializing in art education for aspiring professional artists."
Total Lectures: 28

Lecture: The Future of Islam in the West

Karen Armstrong

Tags: history, economics, islam, christianity, judaism, thewest, crusades, modernity
Media: mp3

Location: Computer History Museum

"The Computer History Museum is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience."
Total Lectures: 59

Lecture: It's Every Monkey for Themselves

Vanessa Woods

Tags: evolution, writing, biology, culture, monkeys, nature, , sex, jungle, bees, killerbees, ticks, costarica, congo
Media: mp3

Location: Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

"The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is an academic research enterprise based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. The Institute has four main activities: 1) Scholarly research and publication on science and religion, including the organisation of invited groups of experts to write joint publications. 2)To provide short-term courses in science and religion. 3) To organise seminars and lectures on science and religion. 4) To provide accurate information on science and religion for the international media and wider public."
Total Lectures: 113

Lecture: Death by Black Hole

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tags: writing, astronomy
Media: mp3

Lecture: Genius 2012

Malcolm Gladwell

Tags: genius, collaboration, problemsolving, linearb, fermatstheorem, mastery
Media: flash video

Lecture: The Ignorance of Chicken, or, Who Believes What Today?

Slavoj Zizek

Tags: religion, philosophy, fundamentalism, belief, atheism, culture, marx
Media: mp3

Lecture: Carrots and Castration

Dan Barber

Tags: food, storytelling, agriculture, farming, restaurants
Media: youtube