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First Aired - 05/17/2012 04:30PM
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On this week's Flash Talks Cash, JoAnn "Flash" Fleming and Andrew Newman are talking about student debt and alternatives to traditional four-year schools. Hear about a new project out of Stanford University called Coursera which offers online courses from reputable professors- with no tuition! Flash and Andrew discuss the pros and cons of this new schooling system. Other topics include the cost of weddings, and the trendiness of same-sex marriage. Later, we've got a Number Nuts- "Where in the world can you get a job?" This episode has been brought to you by Tekserve.
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College Tuiton Revolution (17:57)
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college tuition, healthcare, supply and demand, student revolution, Ohio, Dr. E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University, president compensation package, athletics, college, online courses, University of Phoenix, community college, networking, state university, Stanford, computer science, Coursera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UPenn, Harvard, philosophy, socialization, classroom dynamic,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/05/2012 02:00PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Carmen & Alice explore the history of parks in New York City with John Krawchuk, Director of Historic Preservation of New York Parks & Recreation. Learn about the story of Fort Greene Park (then known as Washington Park), Brooklyn's first park! Find out what renovation plans are in store for this beautiful historic park. This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.
"So many of the great landscape architects worked on Fort Greene Park. It was Brooklyn's first park."
--John Krawchuk, Director of Historic Preservation of New York Parks & Recreation on We Dig Plants
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We Dig Plants: Fort Greene Park (17:32)
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Alice Marcus Krieg, Carmen DeVito, Groundworks Inc., Director of Historic Preservation, New York Parks & Recreation, John Krawchuk, pale male, hawk, Central Park, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, Prospect Park, New York Harbor, Walt Whitman, Washington Park, British Occupation,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 04/05/2009 09:00AM
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This week's Q Report is about beginnings: the roots of the mind, new connectivity in rural America, and reclaiming pre-industrial food systems.
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Verizon Introduces 4G Wireless in Rural America (10:18)
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haves and have nots, roots, quotidian, Mark Marabella, 4G technology, Underground Wireless, Obama: information is power, Introduction, Gomorrah, Elitism,Community in the Brain (9:53)
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moral center hard wired in brain, feelings and brain activity, National Geographic, Trolley Car Experiment, Bill Clinton, Daniel Langleben, Mind Scan, MRI,Brooklyn Monument in Fort Greene Dedicated to Revolutionary War Prisoners (12:14)
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Brooklyn Cyclone, Marty Markowitz, Revolutionary War, Fort Greene, Stanford White, Prisoners of War, Eric Schlosser, Food Inc., Robert Kenner, HBO: Death on a Factory Farm, Brownfield Ag News for America,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
