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Cambridge Forum CLASSIC : Bob
Dylan Artist 
In this Cambridge Forum CLASSIC (2000), Christopher Ricks,
Professor of Humanities at Boston University explores the poetry in Bob Dylan's
songs. What accounts for the staying power of this icon of popular culture?
How do Dylan's songs of social criticism avoid the traps of helpless pathos
and useless rage to achieve their powerful effects? What's behind The Lonesome
Death of Hattie Carroll?
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Tales of Science
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Internationally renowned evolutionist Lynn Margulis reveals
sciences from the inside–its passions, disappointments, and triumphs.
Drawing on her lifetime of experience as a researcher and conversations with
the world’s most esteemed scientists, Margulis gives personal voice to
those who attempt to wrest secrets from nature.
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Burns Memorial Forum on Science and Technology
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Dispatches from Up South
Humorist and cultural observer Roy Blount Jr. grew up in the South and has lived much of his adult life in the North. His newest book looks at the North/South divide in American today. How have the homogenizing forces of air conditioning, television, and Sun Belt economics affected traditional geographic, political and cultural sectionalism?
The Planets
Author Dava Sobel discusses her history of the nine planetsof our solar system and the fascination they hold for the human imagination in the 2nd Ron Burns Memorial Forum on Science and Technology.
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Art in the 21st Century More details about the speakers here. |
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T.rex Appeal Paleontologist Peter Larson and reporter Kristin Donnan tell the story of T.rex Sue. It's a story that starts in 1990 when a Black Hills Institute team unearthed the largest intact T-rex skeleton ever uncovered and continues thru to the controversy that came to be known as the "bone wars." Who should own such treasures? How has Sue's discovery changed paleontology? » WGBH Forum Network webcast |
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The Ecological Imagination Chet Raymo is one of the nation's
most prolific science and nature writers. His newpaper column, "Science
Musings" and his books including The Soul of the Night, 365
Starry Nights and Honey From Stone, offer wonderful explorations
of the profound relationships between science, nature and religion.
Raymo reads from his latest book, Natural Prayers. Poet Pattiann
Rogers reads from her most recent work, Eating Bread &
Honey, which follows the award-winning Firekeeper, New
& Selected Poems. |
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Democracy In The Age Of Dubya Award-winning political satirist and best-selling
author Al Franken, employs his trademark wit and insight
in a discussion of the state of American democracy under the administration
of George W. Bush. What role do entertainers and satirists play
in the political process? Does political satire address topics that
traditional media does not?
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On Objects and Intimacy
Mark Doty reads from his new book of poetry Still
Life with Oysters and Lemon which examines our relationship with ordinary
objects. How do things become meaningful for human beings? How do things
acquire meaning and help us hold feeling, hope, and history within themselves?
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The Folklore of Violence
Afro-American folk singer Sparky Rucker discusses
the history of the glorification of the outlaw in popular and folk music.
Using songs and lyrics, he traces the tradition of celebrating outlaws'
battles against their oppressors, from Jesse James to gangsta rappers.
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Remembering the Negro League
Reverend Henry Bow Mason, former pitcher in the
Negro Baseball and Major Leagues, shares his experiences of playing
in the Negro
League, playing alongside such greats as Satchel Page, Willy Mays, and
Jackie Robinson. Listen...
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