On Being

On Being

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On Being episodes

  • [Unedited] Maria Popova with Krista Tippett
    Maria Popova is the creator and editor of Brainpickings.org. In 2012, Brain Pickings was included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive. She has written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age." Find more at onbeing.org.
    12 min
  • Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging
    It is a story of our time — the new landscape of living longer, and of dying more slowly too. Jane Gross has explored this as a daughter and as a journalist, and as creator of the New York Times’ “New Old Age” blog. She has grounded advice and practical wisdom about caring for our loved ones and ourselves on the far shore of aging.
    52 min
  • [Unedited] Jane Gross with Krista Tippett
    Jane Gross is the creator of "The New Old Age" blog at The New York Times and author of "A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 27 min
  • [Unedited] Mohammed Fairouz with Krista Tippett
    Mohammed Fairouz is a composer whose opera and symphonies have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center. His 11 albums include "Native Informant," "In The Shadow of No Towers," "Poems and Prayers," and, most recently, "Follow, Poet." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Mohammed Fairouz — The World in Counterpoint." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 22 min
  • Mohammed Fairouz — The World in Counterpoint
    He’s been called a post-millennial Schubert. Mohammed Fairouz has composed four symphonies and an opera while still in his 20s. He invokes John F. Kennedy and Anwar Sadat, Seamus Heaney and Yehuda Amichai in his compositions. He sees "illustrious language" as a form of music — and as a way, just maybe, to shift the world on its axis.
    52 min
  • Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Limits of Science

    A passionate translator of the beauty and relevance of scientific questions, Margaret Wertheim is also wise about the limits of science to tell the whole story of the human self. Her Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles reveals evocative, visceral connections between high mathematics, crochet and other folk arts, and our love of the planet.

    51 min
  • [Unedited] Margaret Wertheim with Krista Tippett
    Margaret Wertheim is the co-creator and curator of the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles. She is the author of "Pythagoras’ Trousers," "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet," "Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons and Alternative Theories of Everything," and "Crochet Coral Reef." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Limits of Science." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 31 min
  • David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch — The Future of Marriage
    What would it take to make our national encounter with gay marriage redemptive rather than divisive? David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch came to the gay marriage debate from very different directions — but with a shared concern about the institution of marriage. Now, they’re pursuing a different way for all of us to grapple with the future of marriage, redefined. They model a fresh way forward as the subject of same-sex marriage is before the Supreme Court.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch with Krista Tippett
    David Blankenhorn is founder and president of the Institute of American Values. He's also co-director of The Marriage Opportunity Council. His books include "The Future of Marriage." Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of The Marriage Opportunity Council. He's a contributing editor to The Atlantic and National Journal, and the author of "Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch — The Future of Marriage." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 24 min
  • danah boyd — Online Reflections of Our Offline Lives

    Steeped in the cutting edge of research around the social lives of networked teens, danah boyd demystifies technology while being wise about the changes it’s making to life and relationship. She has intriguing advice on the technologically-fueled generation gaps of our age — that our children’s immersion in social media may offer a kind of respite from their over-structured, overscheduled analog lives. And that cyber-bullying is an online reflection of the offline world, and blaming technology is missing the point.

    51 min

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The premier theologion of early America, Jonathan Edwards, explores the futility of "absolute nothing" and the the existance of a "necessary eternal being."