Topic: History
How has the "fundamental right" to vote evolved since the colonial period? In this excerpt from the historical public radio show, BackStory, the hosts review how elections were handled as the country was formed and how voting fraud has always been a major problem. They interview Mark Summers, Professor of History at the University of Kentucky about how things have changed in the last two hundred years.
A naturalized citizen talks about the importance of a president showing strength and power and a producer reviews the differences between the current election and the 1968 campaign. Nick van der Kolk reviews what people are discussing when it comes to a president being strong, and Barbara Bernstein talks about how people alienated by the Nixon/McGovern campaign feel about the Obama/McCain campaign.
Brian Greene is well known for writing about our universe. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Greene about his latest book "Icarus at the Edge of Time," and asks him why it is an entirely different book than we are used to.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michael Meyer, author of "The Last Days of Old Beijing," about the transformation of a city.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Carl Zimmer about Ecoli: the good, the bad, and the under appreciated.
From the Tech Nation archives: the 1993 interview with Sir Edmund Hillary, who together with Tenzing Norgay in 1953 was first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Neil Shubin, provost of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He describes our 'inner fish,' a journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body.
Rare is the day when you can do anything but stay in bed and avoid seeing any sort of published material. Whether it be a newspaper, novel, or nowadays a published item on the internet or computer, there is no way to avoid this crucial medium for conveying ideas. In this presentation at the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, Sarah Milstein and Tim O'Reilly present the major achievements in publishing history from Sumerian clay tablets all the way to Wikipedia today.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with science writer David Bodanis, author of "Passionate Minds", about the scientist Emilie du Chatelet and the Poet Voltaire.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with San Jose State Professor Randall Stross about the great inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who he believes invented the modern world and has much in common with Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
