Virtually Speaking

Mac McClelland, human rights reporter for Mother Jones, and Jay Ackroyd discuss her new book For Us Surrender is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma's Never-Ending War

Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle talks with Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research,

"Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'" — Nature

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On the first Tuesday of every month,  Spocko and Mike Stark talk about today’s media and political environment, effective activism, organizing strategies and the power of the 99%. Follow @spockosbrain @mike_stark Listen live and later on BTR

Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd consider competing economic theories and economic recovery. Macro economics, meaning job creation, insane austerity policies and the role of government.

Eve Gittelson (aka nyceve) reviews the year in health care policy.

Digby and Stuart Zechman join recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak to explore the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people. Wide ranging 2 hr conversation, including voting strategies for thinking progressives. .

This week in liberalism. Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss Politifact's Lies of the Year--the partisan counter-claims of Republicans and Democrats over the last three years that they are each committed to the destruction of Medicare as we know it.

What Digby Said: Plutocrat - the bizarre, disconnected narcissism of the 1 percent.

Links from the program: HRC background  Lie of the year 2011

Follow @Stuart_Zechman @JayAckroyd

This program is pre-recorded

CW Anderson,  an ethnographer who studies the news, and how changes in technology, culture and economics are shaping journalism, will join us to discuss the concept of Hacking Journalism.   You can find Chris at http://www.cwanderson.org/ or follow @chanders 

Stuart Zechman joins the conversation, in which we discuss how journalism schools study media outlets, like FOX News and the NY Post that traffic in partisan disinformation campaigns, and then about how the press deals with partisan claims that are objectively, as with Politifact and competing Medicare charges.

Links: NY Post on OWS Will Bunch on Philly Daily News and OWS Politifact Response Krugman on "Vouchers"

Tom Levenson Professor of Science Writing at  MIT and  front pager at the Balloon Juice blog welcomes filmmaker and science writer Tim Ferris. Tim Is best known for his work in cosmology, including The Red Limit, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and The Whole Shebang. He's also a filmmaker with three feature documentaries on PBS, including, most recently, Seeing in the Dark

They talk about Tim’s most recent book, The Science of Liberty, published 2010. It is both a historical essay examining what Tim argues is the essential connection between liberalism and scientific thinking (and vice versa). Tom comments here.

Susie Madrak talks with Dave Johnson in this repeat of a May conversation where they consider the argument that appealing to the center drives away voters.