Talks Assorted

George Schultz Says Milton Friedman Has `Shown us the Way'

The Economics of Climate Change
Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the UK Government Economics Service and author of the Stern Review on the economics of climate change

Rubenstein of Carlyle Says Private Equity Is Still `Attractive'

Michael Porter of Harvard Says U.S. Needs More Skilled Workers

'The Curer of Souls'
Lindsay Simpson is the Head of the Journalism program at James Cook University in Townsville and the author of a book called The Curer of Souls. Today she talks about the amateur scientists of Hobart Town in the earliest days of settlement. According to her 'the colonies of Australia represented an amateur scientist's dream'.

John Barrow
This week's conversation is with the latest winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize awarded for work bridging science and spiritual beliefs. Dr John Barrow is professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University and he tackles the big cosmic questions in his new book, appropriately titled The Infinite Book

Free Yourself from Mind Control
Steven Hassan is one of the world's experts on cults and cultic behaviour

Michael Frayn
What does philosopher and playwright Michael Frayn make of what the scientists say? He has put his thoughts about cosmology into his new book, The Human Touch, so called because some believe it takes a human to give meaning to the vastness of the universe.

Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

History of Hezbollah

Forbidden words
Keith Allan on taboo and the censoring of language

Utilitarianism

The Nature of Paleolithic Art
...natural scientist Dale Guthrie's lifelong study of Paleolithic art has led to a very different conclusion: cave art was mainly produced by ordinary adolescent boys with ordinary adolescent preoccupations, notably sex.

The legacy of Milton Friedman

New Delhi Express

Chronic disease self-management

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

The psychology of stalking

Caring for America's health

International Celebrities Discuss Darfur
Actor and Director George Clooney, actor Don Cheadle, long-distance track runner Tegla Loroupe and Olympic speed-skater William Cheek discuss the Darfur crisis with the AUC community

Restoring Broad-Based Economic Growth
Roger C. Altman and Jason Furman, the Hamilton Project, on Responding to the Challenges of Globalization and Technological Change

The Art of Reading a Poem - Harold Bloom

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