Featured October 11, 2006 on NPR/WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show In a post 9/11 world where a few ruthless men and women can use modern technology to create powerful webs of conspiracy, the public voice of radio is needed more than ever. Computers trap us in the blue glow of their virtual reality. Cell phones connect us, but what do we have to say to each other and especially to the poor that will impact their lives? Radio attempts to answer this question. Radio listening groups helped Tanzania create a new democracy in the aftermath of colonialism. Radio taught young children in Kenya to speak...
Featured October 11, 2006 on NPR/WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi Show In a post 9/11 world where a few ruthless men and women can use modern technology to create p...
Conversations With Marcel, the novella at the source of our drama, is the sustained conversation of two young men in 1970s Europe. From cafe to cafe and from love to love the two friends try to sort out a set of values and commitments for a fully modern life. The story of the abandoned wife Anna with her two sons growing up, superimposes itself upon the Conversations... a short novella found within the story of a family left without a father. Our story begins when the abandoned wife discovers the now popular novella and asks the publisher about the whereabouts of the author, her missing...
Conversations With Marcel, the novella at the source of our drama, is the sustained conversation of two young men in 1970s Europe. From cafe to cafe a...
A Zen treatment of one of the most fundamental aspects of life that of "building" and "dwelling," the Deck Builder reflects on the mindfulness that one can bring to his or her daily life through philosophy and our relationship to the natural sciences; with an essay on science, its triumphs and relativity to the human spirit and an accompanying essay on the use of language for philosophy and science.
A Zen treatment of one of the most fundamental aspects of life that of "building" and "dwelling," the Deck Builder reflects on the mindfulness that on...
The story of how imminent biological changes allow cells to be refreshed and our lives to go on forever. But will we remain the same person we once were as our memories fail and their refreshment only leads us to forget entirely who we were? Meet Y2K, R2Z, Honored Teacher, Father, the autistic Kyle and see how they cope with problems of post-technological society knowing they will never die.
The story of how imminent biological changes allow cells to be refreshed and our lives to go on forever. But will we remain the same person we once we...
Modern Times was the last of the silent films by the great director and pantomime Charlie Chaplin. As the giant machinery of the industrial society that was coming to dominate the agricultural plains of America and the workshops of Europe begins to grind the hapless "little tramp." There are differences, of course. Chaplin's times, especially those of Modern Times in the midst of the Great Depression, rising nationalism, racism and ultimately war, were a particularly bleak period for the West. But if Chaplin's art can rise above it and make us laugh and hope, after all love and the "tramp's"...
Modern Times was the last of the silent films by the great director and pantomime Charlie Chaplin. As the giant machinery of the industrial society th...
