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FORA.tv's Program of the Week podcast delivers full-length weekly downloads of some of our most popular programming, available in either video or audio-only format.
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Vintage Tomorrows: Inside the Steampunk Documentary | What can playing with the past tell us about the future? VINTAGE TOMORROWS, a book/documentary about the steampunk movement, seeks to answer this question. Join the makers as they share excerpts from the film. | 6/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Protecting Content and Promoting Information | In the wake of the uproar among the technology and entertainment industries over the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA), the search for common ground and a way forward is more urgent than ever. | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obesity is the Government's Business | With 33% of adults and 17% of children obese, the U.S. is facing an obesity epidemic. Should government intervene, or is this a matter of individual rights and personal responsibility? | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Evening with Bill Keller | Bill Keller, op-ed columnist and former executive editor of The New York Times, speaks with Prof. Peter Beinart, senior political writer for the Daily Beast who teaches Political Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stem Cells: Not What They Used to Be | In this presentation, Gladstone Investigator Dr. Bruce Conklin explains the surprising past, present, and future of stem cells. | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cognitive Robotics and Artificial Intelligence | Join an audience at swissnex San Francisco as scientists from Switzerland and the US discuss their research on humanoid robots, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It | Lawrence Lessig takes on the problem of Congressional corruption in this dazzlingly incisive presentation. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rise and Fall of Wall Street: Paul O'Neill, Ron Suskind, and Jesse LaGreca | Ron Suskind, Paul O’Neill, and Jesse LaGreca meet for a high-voltage conversation about the rise, fall and bailout of Wall Street. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Debate: The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion | Does religion breed intolerance, violence, and the promotion of medieval ideas? Or should we concede that overall, it has been a source for good? | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge | Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, discusses his wide-ranging vision for the storage, organization and access of all human knowlege. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking Out GE's Trash: A New Model for Commercial Recycling | Tom Szaky and Jeff Fulgham discuss how their companies are working to create new models for commercial waste disposal and reuse. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Kahneman In Conversation with David Brooks | New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks with Nobel Laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman about the latter’s new book: Thinking, Fast and Slow. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will We Ever Understand the Brain? | Is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists discuss this question and more as we look into the neurology of the brain. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reinventing the Leaf: Future Sources of Fuel | Nate Lewis, professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, discusses the future of energy technology at the 2011 Compass Summit. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Elsen on Microbes: The 'Dark Matter' of Biology | Biologist Jonathan Elsen presents "The 'Dark Matter' of Biology." | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Moore: Here Comes Trouble | Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore talks politics and reads from his new book, Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow: War of the Worldviews | Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow discuss their book, War of the Worldviews: Science vs Spirituality. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alain de Botton - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work | Rebroadcast: This program originally aired on May 29, 2009. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Debunking 2012 Myths with NASA's David Morrison | Rebroadcast: This podcast originally aired on May 14, 2010. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Hodgman: Are Magic Tricks Really Magic? | Humorist and Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman presents information on the secrets of famous magic tricks, from his forthcoming book That Is All. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Khan Academy's YouTube Revolution: A New Way to Teach Everything | Khan Academy founder Salman Khan explains the concepts driving his wildly popular (and free) YouTube-based lecture series. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony Bourdain and A. A. Gill: Food Fighters | Restaurant critic AA Gill goes 50 minutes with “No Reservations” host Anthony Bourdain on food pretensions, culinary icons and vegans. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geoffrey West: Why Cities Grow, Corporations Die, and Life Gets Faster | Physicist Geoffrey West presents "Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster." | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christopher Hitchens: God Is Not Great | In this classic FORA.tv program from May 2007, noted atheist Christopher Hitchens discusses his bestselling book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fatima Bhutto: Pakistan's Nervous Breakdown | Fatima Bhutto, scion of the Pakistani political dynasty, addresses the current state of her country. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wendy Kopp and Diane Ravitch: What Does Real Education Reform Require? | Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp and NYU research professor Diane Ravitch ponder the realities of comprehensive reform for America's public education system. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carl Zimmer: A Planet of Viruses | "Scientists are discovering viruses faster than they can make sense of them," says science writer Carl Zimmer of the most rapidly-evolving organism on the planet. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Gates on Energy Innovation: Technologies to Replace Oil and Coal | Microsoft chairman Bill Gates considers which developing energy technologies may present the best long-term alternatives to oil and coal power plants. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Planet Money's Adam Davidson: Smart Jobs and the Future of Work | NPR's Adam Davidson takes an engaging look at how technology is rapidly changing even the most traditional of American industries. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Jimmy Fallon and Sean Parker | A Conversation with Jimmy Fallon and Sean Parker | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Kelly: The Future of the Digital Media Landscape | Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at WIRED and author of What Technology Wants, discusses the future of the digital media landscape. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Flannery: Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet | Humans now engage the Earth at Gaian scale. How did Earth and humans get to this state? Given how we got here, how should we proceed? | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get Inspired with MythBuster Adam Savage | Taking a break from his role as co-host of Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Adam Savage talks about inspiration with attendees of the 2011 Maker Faire Bay Area. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Psychology of Twitter | A panel of journalists and scientists fess up on their desires, obsessions, and hates of social media and try to unpick the psychology behind our intimate relationship with it. | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Levy: Inside Google | Steven Levy takes a deep dive into Google management, its products and its company culture. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins | Professor Donald Johanson explains how paleoanthropological field work over the last 30 years has established the continent of Africa as the crucible for human evolution. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ian Morris: Why the West Rules -- For Now | Historian Ian Morris lectures on his work, Why the West Rules -- For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Hertsgaard on Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth | Science journalist Mark Hertsgaard talks about his latest book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guy Kawasaki on Enchantment Marketing | Venture capitalist and Twitter guru Guy Kawasaki talks about his book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Krugman In Conversation | Professor and journalist Peter Beinart talks with Paul Krugman, New York Times op-ed columnist and a Nobel Laureate in Economics. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism | Author Matt Ridley takes a long-term view of humanity's past to project a deeply optimistic view of our future. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Former NPR Head Vivian Schiller In Conversation | Vivian Schiller, former President and CEO of NPR, discusses the state of public media in America. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jane McGonigal: How Video Games Can Make a Better World | Can problems like poverty and climate change by fixed through games? Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal thinks they can. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Glenn Wilson: Sex Wars | Acclaimed psychologist Glenn Wilson discusses research on human sexual behavior. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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P. W. Singer on Wired for War: Robotics and 21st Century Conflict | As our battles are increasingly fought at arm's length by unmanned drones and robotic soldiers, how will it change the way we think about conflict? | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Order in Washington: Featuring Gail Collins, Mike Allen, and Peter Beinart | Journalists Gail Collins, Mike Allen and Peter Beinart discuss the current state of Washington politics, and examine outlooks for the 2012 Presidential election. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joel Salatin: War Stories from the Local Food Front | Farmer and local food advocate Joel Salatin gives his take on food politics, after a lifetime of experience in natural and profitable farming. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dambisa Moyo: How the West Was Lost | Acclaimed international economist Dambisa Moyo discusses her latest work, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly -- and the Stark Choices Ahead. | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate? | Just how much separates homo sapiens from our closest relatives in the animal kingdom? | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Ferriss: 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and 'The 4-Hour Body' | Tim Ferriss, bestselling author of "The Four-Hour Workweek," returns with "The Four-Hour Body." | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ken Robinson: Rethinking Educational Paradigms | Celebrated education expert Ken Robinson argues that most "modern" approaches to learning are actually relics of an outdated, industrial-age system. | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Not to Fear Black Holes with Astronomer Ian Morison | Professor Ian Morison explains what Black Holes are, and how we can discover them even through they can't be seen. | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn't? | The Churchill Club and FORA.tv present "WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn't?" | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Brooks: Politics and Culture | New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks examines politics and culture in the age of President Obama. | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lenore Skenazy: Is Freedom Too Dangerous for Kids? | Lenore Skenazy explains how the rise of experts, fear of litigation, and the media have all led to a culture of overly cautious parents. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants | According to Kevin Kelly, technology is not anti-nature -- it's an extension of it. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values? | Atheist author and cultural critic Sam Harris discusses his book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values. | 12/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Decoded: Jay-Z and Cornel West In Conversation | Superstar rap artist Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter talks about his book, Decoded, in a conversation with professor Cornel West and the NYPL's Paul Holdengräber. | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought | Stanford psychologist Lera Boroditsky examines the developing field of cognitive linguistics. | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Krasny's Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest | Award-winning radio host Michael Krasny discusses his book, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest. | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his book, Eating Animals, in a conversation with Raj Patel. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Ellsberg on Howard Zinn's 'The Bomb' | Daniel Ellsberg discusses the late Howard Zinn's final original book, The Bomb. | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Condoleezza Rice: Extraordinary, Ordinary People | Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People. | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From | Acclaimed author Steven Johnson talks about his latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Nichols: The Death and Life of American Journalism | In a time when thousands of newspapers are shedding staff, being closed, sold off or swallowed, John Nichols reasserts the importance of fierce and independent political journalism. | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Gleick - Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water | Tap water is safe almost everywhere in the U.S. Why does the bottled water industry continue to thrive? Scientist and freshwater expert Peter Gleick investigates. | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patil Armenian on Poisons, Venoms and Pills: Toxicology 101 | Patil Armenian, MD of the California Poison Control System, examines all the various toxic substances you can ingest, inject, drink, get stung by, or be bitten with. | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Niall Ferguson - Empires on the Edge of Chaos | Harvard historian Niall Ferguson attempts to give context to America's ongoing debt crisis. | 10/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos | Cosmologist Martin Rees posits the question: What if human success on Earth determines life's success in the universe? | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Megan Stack: An Education in War | L.A. Times war correspondent Megan Stack discusses her memoir, Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War. | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Gates: In Conversation with Walter Isaacson | Philanthropist and former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates addresses a variety of topics, including his ideas on how to improve America's educational system. | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on Lamb Castration, PETA, and American Labor | Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, discusses how modern American culture belittles necessary labor. | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mary Roach: Packing for Mars | Bestselling author Mary Roach talks about her latest work, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse | Game designer Jesse Schell discusses the potential benefits and pitfalls of an increasingly video game-oriented world. | 8/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Boies - Overturning California's Prop 8: The Case for Gay Marriage | In the wake of a successful legal challenge to California's gay marriage ban (Proposition 8), David Boies, co-lead attorney for the plaintiffs, discusses the case's future as it proceeds on a likely course to the U.S. Supreme Court. | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Dreyfuss: Improving Civic Education | Actor Richard Dreyfuss discusses his Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofit group formed to promote civic education in the U.S. | 8/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eugenie Scott - Science and Skepticism | Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, explores the importance of teaching both science and skepticism. | 7/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christopher Hitchens: Some Confessions and Contradictions | Celebrated contrarian Christopher Hitchens discusses his memoir, Hitch-22, in a conversation with Paul Holdengraber. | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Ariely - The Upside of Irrationality | Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely discusses his book, The Upside of Irrationality. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 79 Episodes |
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