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Who Was The Best US President? With Robert Merry Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - October 11, 2012 Who was the best US president? The worst? Historian Robert Merry plays rate the presidents based on popularity and historical judgment. Here are some hints: Abraham Lincoln's at the top, while James Buchanan ranks as one...
'When It Happens To You' With Molly Ringwald Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - September 27, 2012 Molly Ringwald's career began not as the teen star of John Hughes movies, but as a jazz singer. At age six, she recorded an album of Dixieland jazz produced by her pianist father. In the 1980s, Ringwald starred in a...
From Prison To Law School With Shon Hopwood Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - September 20, 2012 Shon Hopwood committed five robberies in rural Nebraska in the late 1990s. He spent 13 years in prison, spending most of his time in the law library learning to write briefs for other prisoners. He wrote his first petition...
The Mysteries Of DNA With Sam Kean Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - September 13, 2012 Can genetics explain some of history's greatest mysteries? Sam Kean's latest book is called "The Violinist's Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War and Genius Written in our Genetic Code." He unravels our...
An American Family In China With Aminta Arrington Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - August 23, 2012 Aminta Arrington moved with her family from an army post in Georgia to a small town in China six years ago. She hoped to understand the culture and the country and for her young daughter, adopted from China, to understand...
'Life After Murder' With Nancy Mullane Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - August 16, 2012 Nancy Mullane never thought she'd meet a murderer face to face. But when the radio reporter went to a state prison for a story, she found herself in a room with six convicted murderers. She was terrified, at first. What...
The Earliest Mariners With Brian Fagan Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - August 9, 2012 There were many mariners who made voyages before Columbus. In this talk, presented as a trip around the world, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan chronicles various quests across the oceans, starting in Polynesia and...
The Art Of Procrastination With Frank Partnoy Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - August 2, 2012 Frank Partnoy technically started developing his theory on procrastination when he was 8 years old. His mom asked him to make his bed because they were having company over, and he refused to do so until he heard a car pull...
Rewriting The US Constitution With Kevin Bleyer Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - July 26, 2012 At more than 200 years old, the Constitution is long overdue for a rewrite. So, in order to pen our country's new governing document, humor writer Kevin Bleyer traveled to the birthplace of democracy (Greece), bused to the...
The Demise Of Washington Mutual With Kirsten Grind Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - July 12, 2012 When Washington Mutual collapsed in 2008, Kirsten Grind wrote some of the first in–depth stories for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Grind's reporting made her a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, and now she...
Why We Lie With Dan Ariely Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - July 5, 2012 If you say you never lie, you're probably lying. We all lie, a little bit, even if it's just about very small, insignificant things: "Of course you look great in that dress!" or, "No, officer, I had no idea...
'How To Be Black' With Baratunde Thurston Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - June 28, 2012 Baratunde Thurston was in a bar in New York when a chatty woman next to him asked his job, where he lived and where he went to school. He answered succinctly: He worked for The Onion, he lived in Brooklyn and he went to...
'This Land Is Your Land,' A Tribute By Robert Santelli Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - June 14, 2012 You sang it in elementary school, summer camp or church, and you probably still remember the lyrics. Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" is arguably the most iconic American folk song, and at one point, there...
'Every Twelve Seconds:' Undercover Slaughterhouses With Timothy Pachirat Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - May 31, 2012 For five months, Timothy Pachirat worked undercover in a slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska. This was a place where 2,500 cattle were killed each day, or one every 12 seconds. Pachirat intended to do research about violence...
Extreme National Security With Rachel Maddow Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - May 24, 2012 In her new book "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power," Rachel Maddow argues that the United States has become a country strangely at peace with the concept of perpetual war. Maddow explores the root...
Rebuilding The American Dream With Van Jones Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - May 17, 2012 Van Jones spent six months in the White House as the green jobs advisor for President Barack Obama. During that time, he helped oversee $80 billion in green energy recovery spending. Jones describes his time in Washington,...
Challenges To Mainstream Gay Culture With Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - May 10, 2012 Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is worried that mainstream gay culture has become too focused on consumerism, marked by designer products like jeans or vodka. Sycamore is the editor of a new anthology called "Why Are Faggots...
Women Entrepreneurs In Afghanistan With Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - May 3, 2012 Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon traveled to Afghanistan in 2005 to report a story on female entrepreneurship. When she met her "fixer" — someone who engineers interviews in foreign countries — at the...
Life In Modern India With Akash Kapur Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - April 26, 2012 Akash Kapur was born in India, but he was educated in the United States. In 2003, he left New York City and returned to live in his birth country. He was surprised by India's modernization and rapid economic growth, and...
'Is Marriage For White People?' With Ralph Richard Banks Rachel Solomon on Speakers' Forum - April 12, 2012 Though it was once the norm to get hitched right out of high school, marriage rates have declined throughout American society. This development is the most pronounced among African–Americans, and black women are more...
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