Today’s podcast is titled, “Contributions of Chemistry.” Professor George Olah, 1994 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, and Mr. Donald Alstadt, Chairman Emeritus of the Lord Corporation, discuss the contributions of chemistry. Recorded in 1999. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 205 – Physics at 2000: The Characteristics of Time (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Physics at 2000: The Characteristics of Time.” Dr. Tomio Petrosky, Senior Research Scientist at the Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics, Dr. Dean Driebe, Research Associate at the Prigogine Center, and Dr. Ilya Prigogine, Director of the Prigogine Center and 1977 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, discuss physics and the characteristics of time. Recorded in 1999. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 204 – Ethnic Questions Among Post-USSR Emerging Republics (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Ethnic Questions Among Post-USSR Emerging Republics.” From 1991, Vladimir Socor, political analyst with the Jamestown Foundation, Dzintra Bungs, Senior Research Fellow, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, and Bohdan Nahaylo, writer with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, discuss the question of relations among the many ethnic groups that were encompassed within the USSR and its importance to the structure and stability of these emerging republics. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 203 – Origins of The International Rice Research Institute (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Origins of The International Rice Research Institute.” Dr. Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and Dr. Robert Chandler, Founding Director Emeritus of the International Rice Research Institute, discuss the origins of the International Rice Research Institute and describe how the impetus for the Institute began with Borlaug’s work with wheat in Mexico. Recorded in 1994. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 202 – The Synthetic Interview: Tool for Advanced Learning (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “The Synthetic Interview: Tool for Advanced Learning.” Professor Don Marinelli, Co-Director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, and Dr. Scott Stevens, Senior Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss a software tool in 1998 which allows authors to take written dialogue and transform it into interactive character conversation. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 201 – Dilemma of Forgiveness (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Dilemma of Forgiveness.” Julie Juola-Exline, Ph.D, Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, and Roy Baumeister, Ph.D, Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, attempt to define forgiveness and discuss the drawbacks and benefits of forgiving. Recorded in 1998. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 200 – Science Fiction in the Classroom (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Science Fiction in the Classroom.” Frederik Pohl, science fiction writer, and Elizabeth Anne Hull, Professor of English at W.R. Harper College, discuss the joys and difficulties of teaching science fiction. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 199 – Issues in Economics, Politics, and The Sciences (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Issues in Economics, Politics, and The Sciences.” Professor Sam Peltzman, Director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Professor Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Statistics Department, discuss issues in economics, politics, and the sciences. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 198 – Vitamins and Medicine (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Vitamins and Medicine.” Richard A. Kunin, Past President of the Orthomolecular Medical Society and Gladys Block, Professor of Public Health, Nutrition, and Epidemiology at UC Berkeley, join Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, in this exploration of the role of vitamins in the prevention of disease. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 197 – Economic Theory and Fluctuations in Output and Inflation (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Economic Theory and Fluctuations in Output and Inflation.” Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University and 1972 Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Science and Professor John B. Taylor, Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University, discuss economic theory and fluctuations in output and inflation. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.