Notebook on Cities and Culture
363 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 years ago - ★★★★★ - 124 ratings(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) A world-traveling interview show where Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene about the work they do and the world cities they do it in, from Los Angeles to Osaka to Mexico City to London to Seoul and beyond.
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Episodes
Jonathan Gottschall on science and the humanities
February 26, 2009 08:19 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBA conversation about what's wrong with literary studies and a possible way forward with Jonathan Gottschall, English instructor at Washington and Jefferson College and author of Science, Literature and a New Humanities.
Physicist and anthropologist Gregory Cochran on human evolution
February 19, 2009 18:54 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBA conversation with physicist and University of Utah adjunct professor of anthropology Gregory Cochran, co-author with Henry Harpending of The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution.
Science journalist Jonah Lehrer on decisionmaking
February 12, 2009 07:51 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBA conversation about the organic basis of decisionmaking with Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large at Seed magazine and author of How We Decide.
On gardens and broadcasting with Robert Harrison
January 29, 2009 16:48 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBA conversation about what gardens say about human nature, what's missing from mainstream radio and the place of the humanities with Robert Harrison, Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford University and host of KZSU's Entitled Opinions. His latest book is Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition.
Mathematician Keith Devlin on probability
January 15, 2009 07:59 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBA conversation about the genesis of probability theory with mathematician Keith Devlin, author of The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern.
Writer and cultural polymath Clive James
January 06, 2009 07:49 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBA conversation about having fun with poetry, providing an alternative to academia and hosting television programs from one's own home with writer and "cultural polymath" Clive James, author of Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
On the Great Books with Alex Beam
December 18, 2008 03:10 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBA conversation about knowledge, commerce and the Western canon with novelist and journalist Alex Beam, author of A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books.
On David Hume with Simon Blackburn
December 02, 2008 06:24 - 56 minutes - 39 MBA conversation about the greatest British philosopher of all time with Simon Blackburn, professor of philosophy at Cambridge University and the University of North Carolina and author of How to Read Hume. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
On Margaret Thatcher with Claire Berlinski
November 26, 2008 06:13 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBA conversation about Margaret Thatcher, the most controversial British Prime Minister of the 20th century, with Claire Berlinski, author of There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Physicist Alan Sokal
November 18, 2008 03:27 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBA conversation about intellectual rigor and intellectual confusion with New York University physicist Alan Sokal, the man behind the "Sokal Hoax" and author of Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
On art markets with Don Thompson
November 08, 2008 00:14 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBA conversation about art markets with Don Thompson, professor emeritus of marketing at York University's Schulich School of Business and author of The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
On possible futures with David Friedman
October 21, 2008 06:13 - 59 minutes - 41 MBA conversation about what's next for humanity with David Friedman, professor of law at Santa Clara University and author of the classic work of 20th-century political philosophy The Machinery of Freedom. In his new book, Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, Friedman explores the law, the economics and the very sensory experience of a host of possible futures through the technologies likely to shape them, including universal surveillance, e-cash, designer kids, advan...
On Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with auto journalist Mark Richardson
October 16, 2008 04:52 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBA conversation about technology, philosophy and a beloved American motorcycle journey with Mark Richardson, auto and motorcycle editor of the Toronto Star and author of Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Political statistician Andrew Gelman
October 09, 2008 05:43 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBA conversation about demographics, punditry and American voting with Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics at Columbia University and author of Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Wine educator and blogger Tyler "Dr. Vino" Colman
September 23, 2008 06:57 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBA conversation about the red tape of viticulture, huge followings in Japan and Cabernet uprisings in the streets of Indianapolis with wine educator and blogger Tyler Colman, known in the blogosphere as "Dr. Vino", author of Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists and Mobsters Influence the Wines We Drink. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
New Yorker book critic James Wood
September 16, 2008 06:53 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBA conversation about the workings of the novel, the world between journalism and academia and literary versus religious belief with James Wood, book critic for the New Yorker and author of How Fiction Works. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Charles Murray on American education
September 06, 2008 20:06 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBA conversation about what's wrong with American education's priorities and how to fix them with the American Enterprise Institute's Charles Murray, author of Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Mathematical journalist Brian Hayes
August 27, 2008 18:34 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBA conversation about econophysics, generating genuine randomness and the rise of blogs with mathematical journalist and blogger Brian Hayes, author of Group Theory in the Bedroom. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Reading the OED with Ammon Shea
August 22, 2008 16:53 - 56 minutes - 39 MBA conversation about the dictionary-reader's ultimate challenge, all 21,730 pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, with Ammon Shea, author of Reading the OED. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Novelist and former CBC film critic David Gilmour
August 12, 2008 05:56 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBA conversation about one man, one son, and one D.I.Y. film school with novelist and former CBC film critic David Gilmour, author of The Film Club: A Memoir. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Tom McCarthy on Tintin
July 23, 2008 22:17 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBA conversation about art, criticism, literature, philosophy, and a certain Belgian boy reporter with novelist Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and Tintin and the Secret of Literature. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Artscience impresario David Edwards
July 17, 2008 04:09 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBA conversation about science, aesthetics and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries with David Edwards, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard, author of Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation, and founder of Le Laboratoire. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
War Nerd Gary Brecher
July 01, 2008 14:06 - 58 minutes - 40 MBA conversation about asymmetrical warfare, Red Dawn and the Hmong in Fresno with Gary Brecher, “War Nerd” columnist from The eXile. [download show] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Literary blogger Maud Newton
June 23, 2008 04:31 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBA conversation about the rise of cultural blogs, using one’s own life as novel source material and the genius of Rupert Thomson with literary blogger Maud Newton, founder of MaudNewton.com. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux
June 18, 2008 04:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBA conversation about the encyclopedic novel, female creativity and Rush Limbaugh with novelist, essayist and poet Alexander Theroux, author of Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual. [download] [MOI home] [MOI archive]
Kevin Smokler and Dave Weich
June 09, 2008 01:33 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBPart two of our special series on the future of books and reading: conversations with writer, thinker, entrepreneur and maker of mischief Kevin Smokler [site] and Dave Weich, director of marketing and development at Portland, Oregon's Powell's Books.
Graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd
May 30, 2008 05:59 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBA conversation about art school, the Milgram Experient and Andres Serrano photos as bible covers with graphic designer and novelist Chip Kidd, the man responsible for countless bestselling (and some not-quite-bestselling) book jackets. His new novel is The Learners: The Book After The Cheese Monkeys.
Daniel Menaker and Odile Isralson, Titlepage
May 23, 2008 07:42 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBPart one of a special Marketplace of Ideas series on the future of books and reading: conversations with Daniel Menaker and Odile Isralson, host and executive producer of Titlepage, the first book-themed internet TV show.
Arts & Letters Daily's Denis Dutton
May 03, 2008 05:23 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBA conversation about the climate change debate, the evolutionary psychology of art and bad academic writing with Denis Dutton [site], founder of Arts & Letters Daily and editor of Philosophy and Literature.
NPR's Peter Sagal
April 25, 2008 03:02 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBA conversation about swinging, eating, strip clubs, lying, gambling, consumption and pornography with Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me and author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them).
Urban theorist Richard Florida
April 18, 2008 05:04 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBA conversation about personality, innovation and openness in cities and "mega-regions" with urban theorist Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?
Experimental philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah
April 05, 2008 06:25 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBA conversation about experimental philosophy with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and author of Experiments in Ethics.
Japan expert John Nathan (part two)
March 28, 2008 02:32 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBThe second part of a conversation about life in film and literature in Japan and America with translator, filmmaker and Japan expert John Nathan, author of Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere.
Japan expert John Nathan (part one)
March 28, 2008 02:12 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBThe first part of a conversation about life in film and literature in Japan and America with translator, filmmaker and Japan expert John Nathan, author of Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere.
Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak
March 22, 2008 19:55 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBA conversation about the art of engineering, the value of jokes and the nuisance of spam with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and author of iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It.
The Marketplace of Ideas live in Los Angeles
March 22, 2008 19:24 - 31 seconds - 373 KBIt's The Marketplace of Ideas live in Los Angeles! Come bid farewell to Dutton's Brentwood Books and watch a live taping of The Marketplace of Ideas, featuring a conversation with Mark Sarvas, noted Elegant Variation blogger and author of the upcoming novel Harry, Revised. This all happens on Saturday March 29th at 12:00 noon. Dutton's is located at 11975 San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA.
Undercover economist Tim Harford
March 15, 2008 20:42 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBA conversation about speed-dating, the advantages of city life and the fun economists are having with "Undercover Economist" Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World.
Comic artist Peter Bagge
March 07, 2008 03:14 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBA conversation about Generation X, penciling techniques and libertarianism with Peter Bagge, creator of Hate and Apocalypse Nerd.
On globalization with Pietra Rivoli
February 29, 2008 06:43 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBA conversation about Texan cotton-growing, Chinese manufacturing and African entrepreneurship with Pietra Rivoli, Georgetown business professor and author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.
Essayist, film writer, novelist and poet Phillip Lopate
February 22, 2008 05:25 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBA conversation about education, urbanism and Abbas Kiarostami with essayist, novelist, poet and film writer Phillip Lopate.
On book reviewing with Gail Pool
February 16, 2008 02:57 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBA conversation with Gail Pool, author of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America.
Skeptic Michael Shermer
February 08, 2008 00:33 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBA conversation about economics, evolutionary biology and Ayn Rand with Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.
On early modern science and poetry with Angus Fletcher
February 02, 2008 23:22 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBA conversation about the interplay between early modern science and poetry with Angus Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate School and author of Time, Space and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare.
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Deep historian Daniel Lord Smail
January 25, 2008 08:27 - 52 minutes - 36 MBA conversation about bridging the gap between history and prehistory with Daniel Lord Smail, professor of history at Harvard University and author of On Deep History and the Brain.
Economist and blogger Tyler Cowen
January 18, 2008 07:50 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBA conversation about using incentives, eating ethnic food and becoming a cultural billionaire with Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution.
Los Angeles Times Book Review editor David L. Ulin
January 12, 2008 06:05 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBA conversation about publishing, book criticism and LA literary culture with David L. Ulin, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Science journalist Jonah Lehrer
January 03, 2008 22:05 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBA conversation about literature, the human brain and umami with Jonah Lehrer, editor-at-large at Seed magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist.
Novelist Joshua Henkin
December 29, 2007 06:01 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBA conversation about college towns, the importance of story and MFA programs with novelist Joshua Henkin, author of Matrimony.
The Smart Set editor Jason Wilson
December 22, 2007 06:58 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBA conversation about online journalism, travel writing and H.L. Mencken with Jason Wilson, editor of The Smart Set from Drexel University and The Best American Travel Writing series.