ThoughtCast

27/12/2023

https://thoughtcast.org/charles-simics-the-choice-at-san-franciscos-dog-eared-books/

Sadly, since this interview was recorded, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has died at the age of 84. Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin, Texas. Kate Rosenberger is one of those rare people who collects independent book stores in San Francisco t...

10/10/2023

https://thoughtcast.org/womens-work-at-the-bronx-museum-of-the-arts/

Women's Work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

19/07/2023

https://thoughtcast.org/the-history-of-the-new-england-forest/

THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE NEW ENGLAND FOREST

10/01/2023

Does this archival story have anything to teach us about the American media -- and the American public -- in 2023?

International News Coverage in America and the public's attention span

20/10/2022

Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. On ThoughtCast!

The End of our Universe on ThoughtCast

22/07/2022

https://thoughtcast.org/the-mau-mau-rebellion-a-revisionist-history/
NOTE: Caroline Elkins is in the news again, with a new book called Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.

NOTE: Caroline Elkins is in the news again, with a new book called Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. In it she continues her searing research into first world abuse and torture of numberless Africans under their colonial control. How does history get rewritten? How do victimizers....

22/06/2022

Natalie Goldberg, the well-known painter, writer and writing teacher, who wrote the best-seller on how to write called Writing Down the Bones, is also a Zen practitioner, who applies the lessons of Zen Buddhism to her writing, and her life.

https://thoughtcast.org/natalie-goldberg/

09/03/2022

I had the pleasure of meeting Ron Brown and his dancers when I was covering the arts for WNYC TV in the 1990s. In this past Sunday’s New York Times, there was his face, dominating the page. He’s recovering from a stroke and taking small steps, the story says, to discover new ways to express his art. I look forward to whatever he comes up with next.
https://thoughtcast.org/dancer-choreographer-ron-brown/

A work in progress with his dance troupe Evidence.

11/01/2022

https://thoughtcast.org/the-north-atlantic-right-whale-our-urban-leviathan/

The endangered urban right whale.

04/08/2021

https://thoughtcast.org/the-peabody-sisters/

Author Megan Marshall has written well-received biographies of Elizabeth Bishop and Margaret Fuller. But before these books, she wrote about the three Peabody sisters – Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia – who were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the early to mid 19th century.

The three Peabody sisters, Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia, were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the 19th century.

17/05/2021

Back when I worked for WNYC TV, I went to Bridgehampton, Long Island to cover an art opening at the Dan Flavin Art Institute, overseen by Dia Center for the Arts. It's a haunting place, filled with the florescent tubes that made Flavin famous. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

https://thoughtcast.org/the-dan-flavin-art-institute/

The Dan Flavin Art Institute, overseen by Dia Center for the Arts, is filled with the florescent tubes that made Flavin famous.

25/11/2020

THE DINOSAURS ARE BACK!

Back when I was working as a reporter for WNYC TV, a public TV station in Manhattan, I covered the return of the dinosaurs to the American Museum of Natural History, after a three year absence. The updated exhibition focused on the link between dinosaurs and birds. Though it's hard to imagine a connection between the tiny city sparrow and the Tyrannosaurus Rex, there apparently is one!

https://thoughtcast.org/dinosaurs-on-thoughtcast/

The dinosaurs return to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

22/09/2020

SOMETHING TO ENJOY IN THESE TRYING TIMES...

24/08/2020

Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible – the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer – in his “Life of David.”

Note: The WGBH sister stations WCAI and WNAN broadcast this interview, and it also received a 5 star review on PRX! Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible – the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer – in his “Life of David.” Is David a legend? A real, flesh and bl...

18/04/2020

Buffalo Dance: A Poem for NPR’s Poetry Month

Buffalo Dance a poem for NPR's Poetry Month by ThoughtCast's Jenny Attiyeh

13/03/2020

On a beautiful spring day in the mid 1990s, I meander the streets of Red Hook, when it's still a rundown Brooklyn neighborhood. I meet its first art gallery owner, and the two longshoremen who venture inside. This is one of my favorite stories for WNYC TV, the PBS station I worked for in Manhattan. (This station too is now history.) Let me know what you think! Click here (2:30 minutes) to listen!
https://thoughtcast.org/red-hook-brooklyn-before-the-gentrification/

On a beautiful spring day in the mid 1990s, I meander the streets of Red Hook, when it's still a rundown Brooklyn neighborhood.

01/02/2020

Alan Dershowitz is back in the spotlight, but he's been here before, on ThoughtCast!

The controversial Emeritus Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer talks about his book "Preemption" as well as his views on the Israeli-Palestinian-Hezbollah conflict, torture and human rights.

https://thoughtcast.org/alan-dershowitz-on-preemption-and-the-hezbollah/

Alan Dershowitz, the controversial lawyer and author, talks with ThoughtCast about his book "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways", as well as his views on the Israeli-Palestinian-Hezbollah conflict, torture, human rights and our 'war on terror.'