Podcasts about npr's this american life

Prof. Ronald L. Mallett received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the Pennsylvania State University. He worked for United Technologies from 1973-1975, and in 1975 joined the physics faculty at the University of Connecticut in Storrs where he is currently Research Professor of Physics. Prof. of Theoretical Physics, Dr. Ronald Mallett has published numerous papers on black holes and cosmology in professional journals. His breakthrough research on time travel has been featured extensively in the media around the world, including print media such as New Scientist, Die Zeit, GEO, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, Rolling Stone magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, and broadcast media such as, NPR's This American Life, Science Busters, the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Science Channel, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show and CNN. Prof. Mallett has appeared in a feature-length documentary "How to Build a Time Machine" which won Best Documentary at the 2017 New York City Sci-Fi Film Festival. Prof. Mallett’s recently published memoir “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality” has been translated into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. The idea for this podcast came about from our mutual affinity for H.G. Well’s “The Time Machine.” Join us as we discuss the connection between music and time.

A digital edition of Saturday Review presented by Antonia Quirke. Crown Heights is a new on-demand film based on an episode of NPR's This American Life, telling the true story of Trinidadian teenager Colin Warner's twenty year wrongful incarceration. The Miniaturists takes a long-running short play night and turns it into a podcast with five new short plays from up and coming British playwrights. The reviewers explore the world's greatest and strangest museums, galleries and monuments with Google Cultural Institute. The story of a refugee's journey across the sea is rendered in an interactive graphic novel format in Nam Le & Matt Huynh's The Boat. Antonia's guests are Inua Ellams, Andy Riley and Errollyn Wallen. The producer is Caitlin Benedict.

Credit Kwaku Alston     Please Support The Show With a Donation   This week we talk to Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of three memoirs and 5 novels.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House. The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and has been broadcast on NPR's “This American Life”.  Her newest book is Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage   In This Interview, Dani Shapiro and I Discuss... Her newest book, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Her book, Devotion: A Memoir How we are all connected Her history with Orthodox Judaism This sense that she had to pray though she didn't know who or what she was praying to Her process of figuring out what she believes in a spiritual realm Living inside the questions, exploring spiritual wisdom How she moved away from an all or nothing mentality That if her only two choices are "all or nothing", she's going with nothing With her book Devotion: A Memoir, she wrote the book so that she could go on the journey, not the other way around "If you want to do something, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power in it." - Goethe The "third thing" that's essential in relationships What it means to walk through life with another person What it is like to be comfortable not knowing things in life The saying "we can make the best out of everything that happens" vs "everything happens for a reason" Her parents terrible accident The death of her father and it's effect on her life     Please Support The Show with a Donation    

Paul Tough joins Justin Baeder to discuss his book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.Interview Notes, Resources, & Links Purchase Paul's book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.Visit Paul's WebsiteFollow Paul on TwitterAbout Paul ToughPaul Tough is a journalist and author whose work appears regularly in the New York Times Magazine and NPR's This American Life, and is author of three books, including Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America; How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character; And we're here today to talk about his new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.

07/06/2012 - David E. Martinhttp://archive.org/download/ProjectCamelot/RevRad-david-e-martin-07062012.mp3Bio extract taken from amazon.com David Martin pageDr. David E. Martin is a business founder, public policy advisor, and foresight communicator. From his pioneering work in unstructured data analysis and linguistic genomics to his ground-breaking work in global finance and ethics, his life experience obtained in over 120 countries is woven into his first novel, Coup d'Twelve. Dr. Martin gained international notoriety for his data analysis in disclosure prior to the global financial crisis in 2008. His foresight work has been deployed in several international conflicts. He has been a guest on Bloomberg and NPR's This American Life; has been invited to testify in Congressional and EU Parliamentary hearings and roundtables; and has made numerous additional domestic and international media appearances.David's book - Coup D'Twelve aka 'Apostles of Power: Theft of an Empire'M.Cam Financial