About a month ago I started downloading audio lectures and listening to them on my iPod. There’s something absolutely wonderful about being able to browse through lectures by statesmen, Nobel laureates and other top minds of our era — here’re a dozen that I’ve especially liked:
- A Conversation with President Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton & Michael Beschloss (JFK Library And Museum Talks, 5/28/03)
- The U.S. Economy: The Last 50 Years and the Next 50 Years, Franco Modigliani, Paul A. Samuelson & Robert M. Solow (MIT World: Distributed Intelligence, 9/18/02)
- Fortune Favors The Bold, Lester Thurow (MIT World: Distributed Intelligence, 10/23/03)
- Rogue States and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Sandy Berger & Ashton Carter (JFK Library And Museum Talks, 3/11/03)
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker (MIT World: Distributed Intelligence, 10/31/02)
- Defining the Boundaries: Homeland Security and Its Impact on Scientific Research, Jerome Friedman & Phillip Sharp (MIT World: Distributed Intelligence, 9/23/03)
- Innovating Information Technologies to Protect Human Rights, Jim Fruchterman & Tom Parks (World Affairs Council, 02/04/04)
- Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response, John Shattuck & Samantha Power (JFK LIbrary And Museum Talks, 12/9/03)
- Patrick Leahy: U.S. Senator (D-Vt.), Patrick Lehey (National Press Club, 6/25/03)
- The Future of Work, Tom Malone (MIT World: Distributed Intelligence, 7/6/03)
- The Coming Energy Revolution, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran (World Affairs Council, 01/21/04)
- ME++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, William Mitchell (MIT World: Distributed Intelligence, 11/13/03)