ThoughtCast®

The  comedian, writer and performer Sandra Tsing Loh speaks with Jenny Attiyeh at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books about If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now , her first novel. It tells the story of a frustrated couple, Bronwyn and Paul, who live in a shabby Los Angeles suburb, far from the Hollywood glamor they secretly long for. Dissatisfied with the fraying Bohemian chic that th...

Note : This story was broadcast by the WGBH affiliate WCAI , the Cape and Islands NPR station and by KPIP in Missouri. It is also featured on NHPR.org. You’re about to hear a story about the bear whisperer of Lyme New Hampshire, Ben Kilham, and the abandoned black bear cubs he has rescued , rehabilitated and released back into the wild. Some of these cubs have formed such strong bonds with B...

Note: The interview with Maureen Murray that follows aired on WGBH , while an audio version of the slideshow, below, was broadcast on WCAI , the Cape and Islands NPR station! Meet the patient, stoic Blanding’s Turtle, who arrived with a huge hole in her shell, yet managed to lay her eggs! And the red-tailed hawk who’s given a sonogram of its eyeball! Watch the satisfying release of ano...

Neologisms are defined as new words or phrases (or new uses of a word or phrase). And what better place to find them than at a gathering of netizens (itself a neologism) steeped in the new world of the “net”. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society , at Harvard, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, and ThoughtCast was there, fishing for novelty… The Catch: Internet guru...

Note: So far, this piece has been broadcast on the following public radio stations:  New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth,  WDAV’s Artist Spotlight , Tapestry on 90.3 WBHM in Birmingham Alabama, WRVO in Upstate NY and KUAR, in Little Rock! Steve Reich is perhaps the preeminent composer living today. And one of his most heart-wrenching and affecting works is called Different Train...

WGBH broadcast this ThoughtCast interview, and also featured it on their “Science Luminaries” series, as part of “WGBH Science City.”  It was also broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, public radio stations for the Cape and Islands. Professor Randall is a theoretical particle physicist who sees past the rest of us to a world of extra dimensions and parallel universes. Hers is a world of...