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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Library books at The Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, Pa. (CCAC North Library/Flickr)

The future of the library in the digital age.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The Senate immigration bill includes a provision that favors temporary work visas for computer specialists. (Bill Selak/Flickr)

The high-tech end of immigration reform. Silicon Valley is buying a lot of access on Capitol Hill. They want more to welcome more foreign engineers. We’ll look at why.

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Thursday, April 18, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Author Pico Iyer. (AP)

Enough with the “always on” digital world. Pico Iyer is unplugging. He’s with us.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Texting (Steve Rhodes/Flickr)

Letters are dead. E-mail outdated. Text messages so passé. What’s going on with how we communicate?

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Thursday, March 21, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Douglas Rushkoff (Photo by Johannes Kroemer)

Never mind future shock. Douglas Rushkoff says we’re suffering “present shock.” The tyranny of the digital, always-on “now.”

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A Parrot AR Drone 2.0 is seen flying during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Las Vegas. The drone has a built in camera and can be controlled with a smart phone. (AP)

Drones on top of drones. New, commercial drones take off. Some say our skies will be dark with privately-owned drones.

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Thursday, February 28, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Google co-rounder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an announcement for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at Genentech Hall on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. (AP)

Technology you will wear. Google’s glasses. Apple’s iWatch. And “augmented reality” on its way.

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Monday, February 25, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A workman monitors a robotic ladle moving molten zinc at ArcelorMittal Steel's hot dip galvanizing line in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. (Mark Duncan/AP)

The call for federal investment in new manufacturing innovation hubs across the country. Would they make the U.S. more competitive? Should we spend the money? Where?

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | 11:00 AM
The Pentagon, seen from Air Force One. (AP)

New alarms about the risk of cyber attack as the Pentagon calls for more cyber warriors.

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Monday, January 28, 2013 | 11:00 AM
(flickr/kid-josh)

When cyberbullying turns into sexual shaming, with one teen who decided to tell her peers it’s got to stop.

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May 17, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

May 17, 2013
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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

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May 16, 2013
U.S. pianist , composer and music producer Burt Bacharach performs during a concert at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy, Wedneday, July 6, 2011. (AP)

The wizard of pop. From “Raindrops” to “Walk On By.” Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.

 
May 16, 2013
Graduates from various institutions take part in the Toss Your Caps: Philly Graduates College photo opportunity on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Friday, May 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP)

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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