Jeff Schechtman's "Talk Cocktail"

"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Secrets of the Grown-Up Brain

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As we enter middle age one of the things we fear most is loosing some of our cognitive powers, as we forget names, forget where we put the k...

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Murdoch, The Journal and the future of newspapers

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While many argue that newspapers are in their twilight, one of the most dramatic corporate battles of recent years involves one of our natio...

Paradise Beneath Her Feet

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Much of the debate and conflict in the Middle East today is cast as the battle between tradition and modernity; what's still refereed to...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Power Crazy

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We all want "green energy." However separating the rhetoric from the reality is not so simple. In his new book Power Hungry: The...

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Black Swans: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb has redefined how we see the world. An options trader and scholar turned philosopher, he is one of the very people w...

Monday, May 24, 2010

Rumour of War

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And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. Sometim...

Friday, May 21, 2010

The Other Wes Moore

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Every day we make choices. Sometimes those choices; the friends, the mentors and the teachers, shape our lives in ways we may not realize f...

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr.

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The assassination forty-two years ago of Martin Luther King Jr., marked the second in a trip-tic of political assassinations and tragedies t...

Monday, May 17, 2010

Listening to Van Morrison

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Intense, idiosyncratic, diverse, elusive. These are just a few of the words that have been used to describe singer/songwriter Van Morrison....

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Wrong Stuff

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Ours is a materialistic culture with an insatiable appetite for stuff, but at what point does that appetite cross the line and reach unhealt...

Monday, May 10, 2010

Social Entrepreneurship

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Enormous benefits are gained when when social ventures are teamed with business principles. The results are efforts like the Grameen Bank a...

Thursday, May 6, 2010

The things we fear most

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John Lennon said that "life is what happens while were busy making other plans." History tells us that things are the way they are...

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The Great Reset

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As Michael Lewis explained to us yesterday, there is no question we've just been through the worst economic crises since the great depr...

Monday, May 3, 2010

Climate Change and energy policy explained correctly

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There was time when we looked to and trusted science to provide answers to the most pressing questions facing mankind. Today, science like ...

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Who really influences writers?

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Usually we look at how great writers influence our language and culture. Emily Dickenson turned this notion upside down. It was in fact he...

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Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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