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Les derniers Hommes#21. Intelligence Artificielle Générale : enjeux et sécurité. 2030 à l’horizon et nous ne sommes pas prêts.L'AGI est-elle sur le point de révolutionner notre monde ?Comment réagiriez-vous si l'intelligence artificielle générale (AGI) devenait une réalité avant la fin de la décennie ? C'est la question fascinante et quelque peu inquiétante que cet épisode de podcast explore, en se basant sur un rapport de 145 pages publié par DeepMind, un acteur majeur de la recherche en IA soutenu par Google. Ce rapport audacieux prédit l'arrivée imminente de l'AGI et soulève des questions cruciales de sécurité. Pour ceux qui souhaitent comprendre rapidement les enjeux des nouvelles t...2025-04-0514 min
Magic Morning ClubSlik skaper du hverdagsmagi!Jeg er en håpløs romantiker. Jeg elsker livet! Okei, helt ærlig, innimellom synes jeg det er knallhardt også. MEN! Jeg vet hvordan jeg kan snu dårlige tanker og gjøre en dårlig dag til en god dag! Dét skal vi skravle mer om i denne episoden av Magic Morning Club, og jeg har også samlet 35 ideer til hvordan du kan skape hverdagsmagi i ditt liv!
For å snu en dårlig dag til en god, kan vi ta bevisste valg. Fra å velge hvilken kaffekopp du drikker av til å rydde i undertøysskuffen din, små handlinger...2024-09-2323 min
Kulturstreif med Roos & OvlienKulturstreif med Roos & Ovlien - sesong 3 - episode 25 (jubileumsepisode nr. 100)Hilsen fra Stortinget, spennende nyheter om Teater i Glåmdal og en gjesterekke som er en galleforestilling i Rådhuset verdig; utgave nummer 100 av Kulturstreif med Roos & Ovlien er intet mindre enn imponerende. Først får herrene besøk av to unge festningsverter, før Margrete Haarr inntar scenen. Heidi Linde jobber som frivillig på Eventyrfestningen, og derfra kommer både komponist Bjørge Verbaan, heksa Siv aka Kathrine Kolgrov og selveste Krebs i skikkelsen til Tom Styve. Håkon Hauer og Monika Walter som leder demenskoret fremfører Børli – og det gjør jammen Eva Vermundsberget, som i tillegg snakk...2023-06-301h 08
The CENE PodcastA Fireside Chat With André Picard, Award Winning Health Reporter, Columnist and Bestselling Author.André Picard's new book is "Neglected No More," which you can find wherever books are sold. André Picard is a health reporter and columnist for the Globe and Mail where he has been a staff writer since 1987. He is also the author of five bestselling books. André is an eight-time nominee for the National Newspaper Awards, Canada’s top journalism prize, and past winner of a prestigious Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism. He was named Canada’s first "Public Health Hero" by the Canadian Public Health Association, and a "Champion of Mental Health" by the Canadia...2021-05-031h 00
The CENE PodcastInsight from the Cutting Edge of Covid-19 Research in CanadaThanks to everyone who attended the first edition of the Virtual CENE, an online gathering for CENE members and the broader community. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website: https://www.thecene.org/. Dr. Mossman is a Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Mossman leads a team of researchers at McMaster University who have isolated the virus in an effort to gain a better understanding of its biology and evolution and will share her insight from the cutting edge of research on COVID-19. Dr. Mossman is also t...2020-04-0956 min
Shorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastPreserving America's Thought Leader MagazinesMagazines that cover American public affairs, culture, and life have long held an important place in American journalism. But the magazine industry, like the rest of journalism, has struggled in recent years. This special edition of our podcast is an audio version of Heidi Legg's new Shorenstein Center Paper "Preserving America's Thought Leader Magazines." https://shorensteincenter.org/preserving-americas-thought-leader-magazines The paper starts with a brief history of the thought leader magazine with an emphasis on how they built trust, which is key to attracting loyal readers. The discussion then turns to brand affinity, as it relates to...2020-03-251h 32
The CENE PodcastThe CENE Podcast On Tuesday, March 3, 2020, CENE Members were joined at our annual gala by Professor Deb Roy, native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Executive Director of MIT’s Media Lab, along with Heidi Legg, journalist and founder of theeditorial.com. They discussed the evolution and opportunities presented by social media. Special thanks to our True North Partners: McMaster Innovation Park, Business Development Bank of Canada, Nova Scotia Business Inc, and the Consulate General of Canada in Boston. Thanks also to Clark Lau LLC and Latham & Watkins LLP for sponsoring the Gala. 2020-03-1056 min
The EditorialHeidi Legg Interviews Lauren KennedyThe young mom sitting next to me, while sleep-deprived, seemed entirely put together and to the point. She had me at “derailed careers” and explained why she had created Neighborhood Villages to help young mothers and parents of young children thrive in today’s modern economy. Unbeknownst to me until we exchanged cards, I was speaking with Lauren Kennedy, a graduate of Harvard Law and married to U.S. representative from Massachusetts 4th Congressional District and current candidate for Senate Joe Kennedy. Lauren whats to formalize childcare for children ages 0-5 so both parents can thrive in parenting and career2019-11-1538 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastThe Landscape of Local News Models in AmericaLocal journalism is in crisis, off and online. Years of downsizing in the face of digital disruption have weakened regional and local news organizations. But there are a few glimpses of hope in models for local news across the country. In this special edition of our podcast, Heidi Legg, the Shorenstein Center's Director of Special Projects, reads her new landscape study on local news models across America. This landscape study includes over 40 mini case studies on outlets that are making the shift, starting fresh, or experimenting with new ways to survive and thrive. To read...2019-07-091h 28
Captare PodcastNikolas JonNikolas Jon reiser over fjellet fra Bergen og forteller om sin reise som løper.Hvordan være rockemusiker og maratonløper samtidig? Hva er fordelen med å løpe langtur i regn og kuling i Bergen?Dette får du svar på i løpet av en god langtur. Og tilslutt får du en skikkelig knallåt fra bandet han spiller i, Hjerteslag. Nikolas med samboer Heidi står også bak Parkrun i Bergen.Captare er ikke sponset! Men liker du det du hører, så le...2019-03-182h 16Shorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: South Bend Tribune and ProPublica's "Criminal Justice in Elkhart, Indiana"Reporting from the South Bend Tribune and ProPublica revealed deep flaws and abuses of power in the criminal justice system in Elkhart, Indiana – from new revelations in the wrongful convictions of two men, to the promotions of police supervisors with serious disciplinary records, to the mishandling of police misconduct cases. The investigation led to the resignation of the police chief, criminal charges against two officers and plans for an independent investigation of the department, demonstrating the strong, immediate impact that investigative journalism can have at the local level – and its ability to force critical changes in communities. Read...2019-03-1218 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: ProPublica's "Zero Tolerance"ProPublica obtained and published a secret recording from inside a border patrol detention center that captured the sounds of children, recently separated from their families at the Mexican border, sobbing and begging for their parents. The audio clip was played on the floors of Congress, sparking widespread condemnation and having an almost immediate impact, with President Trump signing an executive order to end the family separation policy within 48 hours of its publication. ProPublica reporters then dug deeper into conditions at the detention centers, detailing abuse and assaults on immigrant children, directly countering the administration’s claims that the shelters we...2019-03-1113 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: The Philadelphia Inquirer's "Toxic City: Sick Schools"In "Toxic City: Sick Schools" The Philadelphia Inquirer revealed unsafe conditions in Philadelphia’s rundown public schools, with children forced to learn in buildings rife with mold, asbestos and flaking and peeling lead paint. By scouring maintenance logs and conducting scientific testing inside 19 elementary schools, and engaging teachers and parents in their reporting, the Inquirer built a comprehensive database of the shocking conditions putting children at risk on a daily basis. Read the reporting: http://media.philly.com/storage/special_projects/lead-paint-poison-children-asbestos-mold-schools-philadelphia-toxic-city.html In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to rep...2019-03-0819 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: Frontline and the Investigative Reporting Program's "Trafficked in America"FRONTLINE from PBS and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism produced an investigative documentary on labor trafficking happening today on U.S. soil. Reporters told the story of unaccompanied minors from Central America who were forced to work against their will at an Ohio egg farm, the criminal network that exploited them, the companies that profited, and how U.S. government policies and practices helped to deliver some of the children directly to their traffickers. The investigation uncovered widespread criminal abuse, and will be used as a Department of Justice Anti-Human Trafficking training tool...2019-03-0716 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: The Dallas Morning News' "Pain and Profit"The Dallas Morning News found that thousands of sick and disabled Texans were being denied life-sustaining drugs and treatments by the private health insurance companies hired by the state to manage their care. While these private contractors made billions of dollars from the corporate management of taxpayer-funded Medicaid, some of the most vulnerable Texans were denied critical services, equipment and treatments, often with profoundly life-altering results. As a result of the investigation the Texas legislature pledged millions of dollars to more closely regulate the system, monitor instances of denials of care, and reform the appeals process. Read...2019-03-0618 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: The Alabama Media Group's "Alabama's 'Beach House Sheriff'"Amid threats to his family’s personal safety, reporter Connor Sheets revealed extensive wrongdoing by an Alabama sheriff, including improper use of millions of dollars’ worth of public funds and the mistreatment of inmates in the county jail he runs. Sheets uncovered a history of misconduct that resulted in the ‘Beach House Sheriff’ losing his reelection bid, the launch of investigations into his conduct at the federal, state and local level, and proposed legislation to prevent Alabama sheriffs from pocketing public funds for personal enrichment. Read the reporting: https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2018/03/inside_etowah_county_jail_nigh...2019-03-0513 minShorenstein Center Media and Politics PodcastBehind the Reporting: The Wall Street Journal's "Trump's Hush Money"Starting in 2016, a team from the Wall Street Journal, lead by reporters Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo, uncovered evidence that Donald Trump personally orchestrated a criminal scheme to suppress damaging sexual allegations, despite denials by the president. The coverage sparked a federal criminal investigation into campaign-finance abuses that will soon land the president’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, in prison. In this episode of the Shorenstein Center podcast, Heidi Legg talks to Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo about how the found the story, the lengths they went to uncover evidence, and the expected and unexpected outcomes of thei...2019-02-2717 min
The EditorialDiana YousefGenX entrepreneur and social impact leader Diana Yousef, Founder and CEO of change:Water Labs, is bringing waterless toilets to refugee camps. One of the drivers for this Harvard graduate is that young women are often assaulted in the dark when they need to use the facilities at refugee camps around the globe. I sat down with Yousef to hear more about the waterless toilet she is prototyping this summer, and what she sees as opportunity and barrier in the social entrepreneurship space at this moment in time.2018-04-041h 00
The EditorialJohn PalfreyAs Americans loudly hammer out partisan views on the world stage these days, colleges and universities have been drawn into the fray as campuses, with speakers and their mobile-enabled audiences, become venues for audio and video that has a propensity to go viral. What was once considered healthy student debate can easily become a political inferno with a viral international following. Factions have formed, aligning people into either diversity or free speech advocates. This bifurcation is something John Palfrey sees as mistaken. In his new book, Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces published by MIT Press, Palfrey says diversity an...2018-01-1138 min
The EditorialHillary ChuteHillary Chute is the Author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere and a Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. Her new book focuses on the maturing field of Comics, as she likes to call it, with the popularity of the graphic novel form. In this interview she breaks down the chapters of her book into Why Punk? Why Sex? Why Suburbs, and weighs in on the political power of comics, their cultural place in American history and the power of the drawn line. Heidi Legg dives in with Comics expert, author and Professor Hillary Chute in...2017-12-0739 min
The EditorialJennifer Childs-RoshakHeidi sits down with Dr. Jennifer Childs-Roshak, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, to debunk some of the myths that are being propagated in this country while all other developed nations and allies such as the UK, Canada, Sweden, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Finland, and (even Russia!) fund abortions using taxpayer dollars and see women's right to choose as a private matter between a woman and her doctor.2017-10-2538 min
The EditorialMichelle KuoMichelle Kuo taught English at an alternative school in the Arkansas Delta for two years. After teaching, she attended Harvard Law School as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and worked legal aid at a nonprofit for Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, on a Skadden Fellowship, with a focus on tenants’ and workers’ rights. She has volunteered as a teacher at the Prison University Project and clerked for a federal appeals court judge in the Ninth Circuit. Currently she teaches courses on race, law, and society at the American University in Paris.2017-08-0342 min
The EditorialElizabeth GardnerFor the past seven years, independent documentary filmmaker Elizabeth O'Brien Gardner has been filming a young evangelical church planter, David, and his wife, Betsy, in Boston – a city Gardner says the evangelical movement calls ‘The Preacher’s Graveyard.’ Her 72-minute documentary, The Frozen Chosen, follows the journey of David and Betsy as they build a congregation of fellow millennials looking for salvation. We meet a young ballet dancer who struggles with his homosexuality and looks to the church for guidance, another young man who is a seeker of sorts, baptized by David and born-again in a dramatic scene of speaking i...2017-07-2021 min
The EditorialAbigail BlissAn interview with our new reporter Abigail Bliss.2017-07-1400 min
The EditorialMarieke Van DammeAs we spent time scouring the city for GenX voices bringing us emerging ideas, Marieke Van Damme’s name kept popping up as a change maker. The irony is that she is the Director of a the Cambridge Historical Society, headquartered on fabled Brattle Street, but a few houses away from the poet Henry Longfellow’s house where our first President, George Washington, camped out during the revolution. The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, under her stewardship, where we met for this interview, is a place one might think would be draped in old Cambridge. Aesthetically speaking, it is – I swear...2017-07-1423 min
The EditorialJessica ShattuckMeet our first subject in our 20-part Generation X series where we hope to discover emerging ideas around us from the generation author Douglas Coupland called "Fantastical Creators and Heartfelt Storytellers" in his sleeper novel, GenerationX: Tales for an Accelerated Culture – those born between 1965 to 1980. You know, that tiny but mighty band of irreverent, anti-hero makers and doers hovering around their forties. These, the ones suffocating between the Boomers and their Millennial offspring, who absorb most of everything. At this moment in time, we think GenX idealism – grounded in a reality that bites – may just save us. Jess Shat...2017-07-0726 min
The EditorialRon SullivanRon Sullivan is a Harvard Clinical Professor of Law, the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, and a Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project. His ideas around bias and the destruction of our black and brown men's lives fold into his thinking for how we move forward from the past, how we work to think collectively as “We” in our nation. He says that what has played out in the past few weeks demonstrates that our democracy was built to survive one person. He also cautions that this requires everyone to participate, to be open to conversation regardless of our...2017-05-2339 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialIan Bremmer #95
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American Political Scientist and AuthorPresident and Founder of Eurasia GroupIt would always be a good thing to lead with humility and discretion but it is particularly important now because America's negotiating position in the rest of the world is weakening. And Trump has neither. He needs experts.
By Heidi LeggI heard Ian Bremmer speak this past fall at a BNY Mellon event and was taken by his candid views and breadth of knowledge on the geopolitics of our times. I t...2016-12-1400 min
The EditorialIan BremmerIan Bremmer is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. He is a prolific thought leader and author, regularly expressing his views on political issues in public speeches, television appearances, and top publications, including Time magazine, where he is the foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large. Once dubbed the “rising guru” in the field of political risk by The Economist, he teaches classes on the discipline as global research professor at New York University. His latest book is the national bestseller “Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World.”2016-12-1447 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialMatty in The Morning: Matt Siegel #94
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Morning Radio Host KISS 108ComedianMatty In The MorningiHeart Radio Get the guy who owns Shorty's and a college Harvard professor arm in arm and bring them out and say, 'Well, we survived.' Of course, it's the other side of the Charles but it's not really that big river. - Matt Siegel on our suggestion we take Boston on tour across the nation.
by Heidi LeggIn the...2016-12-0800 min
The EditorialMatty In The MorningFor over thirty years, Matt Siegel has been making Massachusetts residents laugh their way into their mornings. Matty In The Morning reaches people in a way our current election and media have not. He bridges the divide, even if many NPR listeners may hide the fact they listen in when things are going badly in their days and need a reprieve. I ask Matty about reality TV starts as authorities, entertainment as news, about his craft, and how we might export his humor across the country to bridge the coasts with the middle, post election.2016-12-0831 minCURRENT - TheEditorialMichael Puett #93
Harvard's Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese HistoryC0-Author, The Path In a revolutionary historical shift, The Bronze Age aristocratic societies that had dominated Eurasia for two thousand years, passing power and wealth down exclusively through hereditary bloodlines, began to crumble. As these states collapsed, new forms of political and experimentation arose – from radical democracy in Greece to centralized bureaucracies and legal systems in China.”
By Heidi LeggOn the Friday before the election, I sat down with the Walter C. Klein Harvard Professor of Chinese History and Commit...2016-11-2300 min
The EditorialMichael PuettHeidi talks with Michael Puett, a Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard. 2016-11-0856 min
The EditorialMariana IbanezBorn and educated in Buenos Aires, Mariana Ibañez has been teaching at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) for 10 years after working closely in London with globally-celebrated Zaha Hadid, her mentor, who passed away this winter leaving the world her iconic structures. Today, Ibañez and her partner Simon Kim have their own closely watched firm called Ibañez Kim where they experiment each year in a different city with a construct that explores the relationship between urbanism and how we move through the city. They also have a lab called Immersive Kinematics where they do much of th...2016-09-3041 min
The EditorialDavid TingIn a digital age of healthcare, the security of patient files seems obvious. But in 2002? Not so much. Entrepreneurs are often said to be soothsayers and in 2002, David Ting founded Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company focused on keeping medical files private and locked online, allowing doctor’s offices and hospital physicians to more easily sign in to secure networks, whether text messaging platforms, electronic medical records, or prescribing databases. In June 2014, a decade later, Ting took his Lexington-based startup public, raising $66.3 million through its IPO. This July, Imprivata announced they were being taken private again, having be...2016-09-3037 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialDavid Ting #86
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Founder, ImprivataTech Darling "What's the thing that allows a startup to succeed? It’s your instincts to survive. You prioritize really quickly. If you're a small company you say, 'I only have this much time and I only have this much money and resources.' The need to prioritize what you need to do next is really crystal clear or it should be or you're going to be out on the street."
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The EditorialDean BragonierTwo years ago, Dean Bragonier founded NoticeAbility in an effort to change student curriculum for dyslexic kids before his own son hits middle school. Why? Dean and his wife Sally Taylor are both dyslexic. What struck me most was when Dean explained that the invention of the Gutenberg printing press and text-based learning meant 20% of our population was left. This fall Martha’s Vineyard public schools will adopt his curriculum district-wide, he will pilot with Citizens Schools and offer his curriculum at three private schools. His interview offers a fascinating insight into the brain, how we learn and why we ca...2016-07-2037 min
The EditorialThierry WeissenburgerThierry Weissenburger is the Senior Trade Commissioner for Canada in Boston. In the past few months we have heard Trump declare that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was, possibly, the worst trade deal in the history of the U.S., watched BREXIT unfold, and are facing the inward looking momentum of nationalist campaigns in many countries, including our own. We thought we would sit down with one of the most active consulates around innovation to discuss why some nations are doubling-down in trade and entrepreneurship in Cambridge.2016-07-0141 min
The EditorialTim EricsonNotice the bike paths these days? There is bike traffic at stoplights and they seem ubiquitous in any big city allowing tourists and local alike to hop on and off whenever they need, today. Paris and Montreal were early to the game of community bikes where you buy a card or membership and now more and more American cities and campuses are adopting what has long been the norm in Beijing and Amsterdam. Is this the Millennialization of the way we live and work? Tim Ericson, Co-Founder and CEO of Zagster, one of the largest bike sharing...2016-06-1628 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialMariana Ibañez #84
Portrait by Alan Savenor in front of the "Trays", an iconic venue at the Harvard GSD
ArchitectIbañez KimHarvard Graduate School of Design"We have crazy ideas all the time as architects… couldn't we have these shelters that are packed really tight and you hydrate them and then they blow up and suddenly they become some type of tent?"
by Heidi LeggBorn and educated in Buenos Aires, Mariana Ibañez has been teaching at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design...2016-06-1500 min
The EditorialNick RoyIf you’re not a drone junkie, you may still have heard that the US dronies” are waiting for the FAA to rule on who can own a drone and where they can fly it, you may have heard that a Hoverboard or Drone are on the top of every tech-head and 10-year old kid’s Santa list, but do you know how pervasive drones will be in your lifetime? When your coffee shop, bike path and grocery line collides with MIT and Harvard, you hear these things. Heidi sits down with drone expert Nick Roy, Associate Professor of Aeronaut...2016-05-2632 min
The EditorialGeorge ChurchGeorge Church, The Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical, has the largest research lab at Harvard and wants to build a culture in the field of genomics based on sharing and transparency in an effort to bring us all into the discovery.2016-05-1238 min
The EditorialDavid RoseDavid Rose, CEO of Ditto Labs and author of Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things.2016-04-2825 min
The EditorialDavid EdwardsHeidi talks with David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire Paris, Le Lab & Café, and ArtScience Cambridge. David now teaches at Harvard University and practices inside his labs in Paris and Cambridge. Today he is quickly becoming a leading thinker on scent integration into the digital experience, and his ArtScience Prize has been applied in schools and labs across the country. When one walks into his Café ArtScience in Kendall Square, it’s hard not to think you are tinkering in a Willy Wonka Factory.2016-03-2929 min
The EditorialArthur GansonHeidi talks with Arthur Ganson, a renowned kinetic sculptor and mechanical artist. Ganson has long been the hero of a cult following of technologists and artists. With more permanent work than any other artist or innovator inside the hallowed halls of the MIT Museum, Machine with Paper and Machine with Grease are quiet, complex kinetic sculptures that mesmerize the viewer and pull on both the mind and the emotion. Ganson’s playful, wry humor was captured in Randall Okita’s award winning film “Machine with Wishbone.”2016-03-2932 min
The EditorialRebecca EatonHeidi talks with Rebecca Eaton, The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS’s Masterpiece. Eaton has brought American audiences Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, the recent hits Sherlock, Poldark and Downton Abbey — the most-watched drama in PBS history — as well as high-profile titles such as Mr Selfridge, Endeavour, Wallander, Prime Suspect, Cranford, Little Dorrit, Inspector Lewis, and The Complete Jane Austen.2016-03-2923 min
The EditorialBen MezrichHeidi talks with Ben Mezrich, author of best-sellers like Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires. His latest book is Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs.2016-03-2928 min
The EditorialBen Bradlee Jr.Heidi talks with Ben Bradlee Jr, former editor of The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team and author of The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams.2016-03-2327 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialRebecca Eaton #77
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Executive ProducerPBS MasterpieceDownton Abbey, Sherlock, Wolf Hall OBEJulian Fellowes created the world of Downton Abbey and twenty major characters and their storylines. He was ready to tell this story. He knew the world. He loved the world and that's when you can have magic: when you have a creative person who finds their subject.
Interview by Heidi LeggRebecca Eaton, The Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS’s Masterpiece, has brought us many beloved television ser...2016-03-0300 minCURRENT - TheEditorialBen Bradlee Jr. #76
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American JournalistFormer Editor, The Boston Globe, Spotlight TeamAuthor, The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams"The Spotlight story had incredible impact way beyond what we ever could have imagined. You think you can have a great story in journalism, but you never know until it runs and you see the impact. This one took off like a rocket ship."
by Heidi LeggOn Saturday I watched the 1976 film All The Presidents Men, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman pla...2016-02-2500 minCURRENT - TheEditorialDavid Edwards #65
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Harvard ProfessorLe Laboratoire ParisLe Lab & Café ArtScience CambridgeArtScience PrizeThere's a lot of interest today in the importance of sensorial delivery, particularly scent, but also taste and touch to our health. Not having those experiences in our digital existence, whether we want that digital existence or not, is hurting us and that's becoming clear in lots of different ways.
The Scent of a Cyborgby Heidi LeggDavid Edwards, after gra...2015-09-3000 minCURRENT - TheEditorialArthur Ganson #61
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Kinetic SculptorMachinist, ArtistPermanent Collection at MIT Museum It's in the integration of the innocent, naive child and the thinking adult that the machines happen. It’s in that space. – Arthur Ganson
Arthur Ganson has groupies. It is the first time that I set off to do a profile interview where friends, naturally RISD grads, asked if they could sit in and they did. Why?Ganson has long been the hero of a c...2015-06-2400 minCURRENT - TheEditorialBen Mezrich #60
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AuthorBringing Down the HouseThe Accidental Billionaires (The Social Network)Once Upon a Time in RussiaThere were maybe a thousand businessmen murdered in the '90s in Russia. These guys built their wealth, and essentially built Putin along the way. It was one of those things from which you can't turn away.
Why did you write about Russian oligarchs? I had no knowledge or intention of writing bout Russia. I had done a project with film director Brett Ra...2015-06-0200 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialGeorge Church #54
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The Robert Winthrop Professor of GeneticsHarvard Medical Eventually, Galileo was completely accepted by the same religion that rejected him. And in science we often reject things until we can prove they are right. Until then, there's more heat than light.This Interview was first published in the print Business section of the Boston Globe
Interview by Heidi LeggGeorge Church, The Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical has the largest research la...2015-04-0100 min
CURRENT - TheEditorialThe Voice of Siri #52
SiriakaSusan Bennett In this digital age, one of the important things to a voice talent is anonymity. It took me a really long time to decide to reveal myself as Siri. You can read or listen to our interview with Susan Bennett below
Opening music by Sol Rosenthal and Zara GoundenThis interview first appeared on the Boston Globe's BetaBoston.com Have you ever wondered about the voice that seems to hang out in our pocke...2015-03-0414 min