THE MIT PRESS JOURNALS PODCASTS
Episode 6: Sean Lynn-Jones, editor of International Security, interviews author John Schuessler, whose article "The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War" appears in the Spring 2010 issue of the journal. Their conversation tackles the question of whether FDR willfully deceived the American public in order to persuade them to support WWII – and touches on perceptions of warring democracies as well as comparisons to the 2003 Iraq War. The conversation was recorded on May 21, 2010. Check out the article here.
AUDIO COMPANION TO WALKING TOURS OF BOSTON'S MADE LAND
An audio tour of Boston's Central Waterfront, intended as a companion to Nancy Seasholes' book. Listen to the tour.
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| The MIT Press Podcast Series
The MIT Press Podcast series is a monthly audio program spotlighting the authors of The MIT Press. Hosted by Chris Gondek of Heron & Crane Productions.
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| 2011 Interviews
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Episode 38: B. Coleman
Episode 37: Catherine Tumber
Episode 36: Leslie Paul Thiele
Episode 35: Paul Patterson
Episode 34: Richard A. DeMillo
Episode 33: Braden R. Allenby
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| 2010 Interviews
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Episode 32: David Simchi-Levi
Episode 31: Maud Lavin
Episode 30: Paul Wapner
Episode 29: Alexandra Schwartz
Episode 28: David E. Nye
Episode 27: Caleb Kelly
Episode 26: Gary Klein
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| 2009 Interviews
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Episode 25: Charles G. Gross
Episode 24: Mary Flanagan
Episode 23: M. Paloma Pavel & Carl Anthony
Episode 22: Mark Dowie & Benjamin Weiss
Episode 21: Richard D. Roberts & Elizabeth Losh
Episode 20: Graham Pullin & Charlie Hailey
Episode 19: Adrian Parr & Joshua Gans
Episode 18: Stephen H. Axilrod & Ian Bogost
Episode 17: Colin J. Bennett
Older Interviews
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EPISODE 38 (Jan. '11): B. Coleman
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B. Colemanis Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. She is Faculty Director of the C3 Game Culture and Mobile Media initiative.
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EPISODE 37 (DEC. '11): Catherine Tumber
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Catherine Tumber, a journalist and historian, is the author of American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875–1915. She is a Research Affiliate in the Community Innovators Lab in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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EPISODE 36 (NOV. '11): Leslie Paul Thiele
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Leslie Paul Thiele is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution, The Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative, and other books.
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EPISODE 35 (OCT. '11): Paul H. Patterson
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Paul H. Patterson, a developmental neurobiologist, is Anne P. and Benjamin R. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and a Research Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. He is the coauthor (with Alan Brown) of The Origins of Schizophrenia.
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EPISODE 34 (SEPT. '11): Richard A. DeMillo
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Richard A. DeMillo is Distinguished Professor of Computing and Professor of Management, former John P. Imlay Dean of Computing, and Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Institute of Technology. Author of over 100 articles, books, and patents, he has held academic positions at Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Padua. He directed the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science Foundation and was Hewlett-Packard’s first Chief Technology Officer.
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EPISODE 33 (MAY '11): BRADEN R. ALLENBY
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Braden R. Allenby is Founding Director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University. He is the author of Reconstructing Earth: Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans.
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EPISODE 32 (NOV/DEC. '10): DAVID SIMCHI-LEVI
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David Simchi-Levi is Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management. He coauthored the books Managing the Supply Chain, The Logic of Logistics as well as the award-winning Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. He is the founder of LogicTools (now part of IBM), which provides software solutions and professional services for supply chain planning
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EPISODE 31 (SEP/OCT. '10): MAUD LAVIN
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Maud Lavin is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design (MIT Press, 2001) and most recently Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women
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EPISODE 30 (JUL/AUG. '10): PAUL WAPNER
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Paul Wapner is Associate Professor and Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program in the School of International Service at American University. He is the author of Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism (MIT Press, 2010) and Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics (SUNY Press, 1996), which won the 1997 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book on international environmental affairs.
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EPISODE TWENTY-NINE (MAY/JUN. '10): ALEXANDRA SCHWARTZ
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Alexandra Schwartz is the author of Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles (MIT Press, 2010) and editor of a collection of Ed Ruscha's writings, Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages (MIT Press, 2002).
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EPISODE TWENTY-EIGHT (APR. '10): DAVID E. NYE
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David E. Nye is Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark. The winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology, he has published seven titles with the MIT Press, most recently When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (2010).
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EPISODE TWENTY-SEVEN (FEB./MAR. '10): CALEB KELLY
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Caleb Kelly is a lecturer at the Sydney College of Art, the University of Sydney, Australia and is the author of Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction.
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EPISODE TWENTY-SIX (JAN. '10): GARY KLEIN
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Gary Klein is a Senior Scientist at Applied Research Associates. He is the author of Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, and the coauthor of Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis, all published by the MIT Press.
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EPISODE TWENTY-FIVE (NOV./DEC. '09): CHARLES G. GROSS
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Charles G. Gross, a neuroscientist specializing in vision and the functions of the cerebral cortex, is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. He is the author of Vision, Brain, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience and A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience.
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EPISODE TWENTY-FOUR (OCT. '09): MARY FLANAGAN
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Mary Flanagan artist and game designer, is Founder and Director of Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Critical Play: Radical Game Design and coeditor (with Austin Booth) of Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture and re:skin
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EPISODE TWENTY-THREE (JULY/AUG '09): M. PALOMA PAVEL & CARL ANTHONY
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M. Paloma Pavel is editor of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis. Dr. Pavel is Founder and President of Earth House Center in Oakland, California, which is dedicated to building multiracial leadership. She is a psychologist and international educator and the coauthor of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty. |
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Carl Anthony is a contributor to Breakthrough Communities. A Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geography at UC Berkelely, he is Founder of the Earth House Leadership Center and the Urban Habitat program in Oakland, CA.
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EPISODE TWENTY-TWO (JUNE '09): MARK DOWIE & BENJAMIN WEISS
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Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, Losing Ground: Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History, and four other books. |
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Benjamin Weiss is co-author of Obelisk: A History and Manager of Adult Learning Resources at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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EPISODE TWENTY-ONE (MAY '09): RICHARD D. ROBERTS & ELIZABETH LOSH
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Richard D. Roberts is the co-author of What We Know about Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health. Mr. Roberts is Principal Research Scientist at the Center for New Constructs, Educational Testing Service. With Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews, he is also co-author of Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth (MIT Press). |
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Elizabeth Losh is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes. Ms. Losh is Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches courses on digital rhetoric and public communication.
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EPISODE TWENTY (APR. '09): GRAHAM PULLIN & CHARLIE HAILEY
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Graham Pullin is the author of Design Meets Disability. Mr. Pullin is a lecturer in Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee. He has worked as a senior designer at IDEO, one of the world's leading design consultancies, and at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, a prominent rehabilitation engineering center in the United Kingdom. He has received international design awards for design for disability and for mainstream products. |
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Charlie Hailey is the author of Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space and Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place. Mr. Hailey is Assistant Professor in the University of Florida's School of Architecture.
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EPISODE NINETEEN (MAR. '09): ADRIAN PARR & JOSHUA GANS
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Adrian Parr is the author of Hijacking Sustainability. Ms. Parr is Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of Deleuze and Memorial Culture and other books. |
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Joshua Gans is the author of Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting. He is the father of three and Chair of Management at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. Mr. Gans is the author of several economics textbooks and the 2007 recipient of Australia's Young Economist award.
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EPISODE EIGHTEEN (FEB. '09): STEPHEN H. AXILROD & IAN BOGOST
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Stephen H. Axilrod is the author of Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke. Mr. Axilrod worked from 1952 to 1986 at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., rising to Staff Director for Monetary and Financial Policy and Staff Director and Secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's main monetary policy arm. Since 1986 he has worked in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy with foreign monetary authorities. |
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Ian Bogost is the author of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System. Mr. Bogost is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, at Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner, Persuasive Games LLC. He is also the author of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogame Criticism and Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, both published by the MIT Press.
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EPISODE SEVENTEEN (JAN. '09): COLIN J. BENNETT
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Colin Bennett is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance and coauthor (with Charles Raab) of The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (updated paperback edition, MIT Press, 2006).
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