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Virtually Speaking

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Live & lively. Informal & informed conversations about politics, policy, economics, media, science and more. Sundays feature a panel of prominent members of the liberal blogosphere. Wednesdays dedicated to science, authors and practitioners with hosts Alan Boyle, Tom Levenson and Jennifer Ouelette. Thursdays, Jay Ackroyd talks public affairs, mostly with authors, mostly about progressive issues. , presented simultaneously through the 3-D Second Life communications platform.
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David Brin explores transparency, security, privacy & openness in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Winner of the Freedom of Speech Award of the... more
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Stuart & Jay consider meanings of political language, centrism, political parties and implications for public policy.
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From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Gaius Publius & David Waldman compare notes and observations from the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal.Follow... more
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Militarization of the police. A former Baltimore Police Dept officer Peter Moskos teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center in the Department of Sociology. He is the author of Cop in the Hood: My... more
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Recorded earlier. Jennifer Ouellette hosts Caleb Scharf - Director of Columbia Universitys multidisciplinary Astrobiology Center. They consider observational cosmology, X-ray astronomy, and more recently exoplanetary science. His latest... more
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Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What Theyre Really Saying When Theyre Saying What Theyre Saying" - on the Sunday Talk Shows, then creates the most ridiculous moment for Virtually Speaking... more
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From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Joan McCarter & Cliff Schecter discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. Jay Ackroyd hosts. More at virtualllyspeaking.us.... more
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Excerpted from May 26 Virtually Speaking Sundays, Dave Johnson riffs on Trans Pacific Partnership - what it is and what it isnt . Stuart Zechman connects the dots back to Democrats in power. Links & more at
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SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak talks about aliens and culture with host Alan Bolye (Cosmic Log).Before his involvement with SETI research, Seth used radio telescopes in the USA and the Netherlands, searching for clues... more
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From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol & Marcy Wheeler - discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. This week, the so-called war on the media in light... more
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Marcy Wheeler discusses the implications of Obamas May 2013 national security speech in which he outlined a new direction for the country's national security and counterterrorism efforts, from drone strikes in Pakistan to the prison at... more
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