Columbia School of Arts Dean Carol Becker speaking with visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat about her work, specifically her recent film "Women Without Men."

9/11 and the Spirit of Volunteerism

Dec 17th, 2010 50m 49s

A three-person panel discusses how 9/11 sparked a greater movement of volunteerism across the United States and led to President Obama's declaration of Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service.

Bodies on the Line: Michael Fitzpatrick and Rabbi Irwin Kula

Dec 15th, 2010 1h 24m

Musician Michael Fitzpatrick calls out for compassion and world peace with his cello. He shares his music and discusses the power of good vibrations with Rabbi Irwin Kula.

Bodies on the Line: Claudia Bernardi and Mark Danner

Dec 6th, 2010 1h 39m

Claudia Bernardi, artist, printmaker and human rights activist presents samples of her work and has a conversation with award winning journalist and author, Mark Danner as part of Anna Deavere Smith's colloquium on borders, Bodies on the Line.

Realizing the 9/11 Memorial

Nov 15th, 2010 34m 14s

9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad details what inspired him to design a national tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the World Trade Center terror attacks.

Jewish as a Second Language, The Frozen Rabbi

Jul 28th, 2010 1h 46m

with Molly Katz and Steve Stern

Pop-Up Particle Physics from the Large Hadron Collider

Jul 7th, 2010 1h 38m

Alan Alda moderates as leading physicists Lisa Randall (Harvard) and Michael Tuts (Columbia), join CERN's Emma Sanders to explain new science coming from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. In particular, they share details of the

Escaping the Taliban

Jun 30th, 2010 50m

David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer prize winning reporter for The New York Times, has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, and other countries. For seven months he was held captive by the Taliban before escaping.

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language

Jun 16th, 2010 58m 20s

Vice Present of Content for WNET.org Stephen Segaller speaks with author and associate editor of Britain's Observor, Robert McCrum. McCrum's new book traces the spread of English as the language of global capitalism.

Where Does Life Begin?

Jun 10th, 2010 1h 2m

Together artist Michael Joaquin Grey and astrobiologist Chris Impey construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed by Grey and inspired by biological and social networks.

Understanding the Enemy: Counterterrorism and al Qaeda

May 26th, 2010 1h

As the FBI program manager and instructor at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, Bill Braniff conducts cutting-edge research in counterterrorism and trains law enforcement on how to "understand the enemy." Braniff's expertise helps officia

Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal, Paul Newman

May 19th, 2010 54m 55s

Paul and Me is an intimate account by the bestselling author A. E. Hotchner of his remarkable, enduring, fifty-three year friendship with Hollywood legend Paul Newman. Hotchner shares their adventures: From travels across the globe to jointly o

Mind Over Money

May 12th, 2010 53m 46s

In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money," an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the Crash of 2008 and why we so often make ir

9/11 and Trials of Terror

May 5th, 2010 1h 1m

A panel offers a dialogue with multiple perspectives on a complex subject - trying terror suspects in civilian courts and military tribunals, with a discussion regarding the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. Panelists include Karen Greenberg, the e

What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?

Apr 21st, 2010 1h 22m

Writer Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan: The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains that makes some of us upend tradition and most of us follow the

Sharing Our Humanity through 9/11 Remembrances

Apr 7th, 2010 44m 54s

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares remembrances by family members of 9/11 victims at The National 9/11 Memorial & Museum preview site.

Worse than War

Mar 31st, 2010 43m 6s

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "Worse than War" and writer of the upcoming PBS series of the same name, presents to members of the U.N. his controversial call for a fast-acting, military-empowered response to threats of genocide and other fo

Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal

Mar 24th, 2010 1h 6m

Journalist and business writer Kirstin Downey celebrates her latest book, a portrait of this devoted public servant, a woman who changed the landscape of American business and society. Frances Perkins was this country's first female cabinet sec

How Do Our Brains Cope with Long-term Stress?

Mar 17th, 2010 1h 22m

Arjia Rinpoche + Bruce S. McEwen. A survivor of the Chinese Cultural Revolution talks to the Rockefeller University neuroendocrinologist about how stress hormones act on the brain and if Buddhist practice has anything to teach us about how we

The Story of India

Mar 10th, 2010 34m 29s

For "The Story of India," Worldfocus news anchor Daljit Dhaliwal interviews three prominent South Asians from the New York community. Issues range from the birth of feminism in India to the importance of the arts during Akbar's rule to the coun

What to Eat: Diet, Nutrition, and Food Politics - An Evening with Marion Nestle

Feb 24th, 2010 1h 28m

Marion Nestle will addresses the science of nutrition, explaining how hard nutrition science is to do and to interpret, and yet how easy it is for food marketers to confuse the science to sell products. She discusses the hot topics of sponsored

Red Book Dialogues: Matthew Weiner

Feb 17th, 2010 1h 30m

In the spirit of RMA's exhibition "The Red Book of C.G. Jung," personalities from many different walks of life will be paired on stage with a psychoanalyst and invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

Feb 10th, 2010 45m 32s

Hannah Pakula presents her work The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China, which tells the epic story of one of the most remarkable and controversial women of the twentieth century, and of the advent of the Asian su