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Thursday, June 13, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Denise Harwood diagnoses an overheated computer processor at Google’s data center in The Dalles, Ore. Google uses these data centers to store email, photos, video, calendar entries and other information shared by its users. (Connie Zhou, Google/AP)

We’ll talk about privacy and liberty in the age of the Internet and big surveillance with big web thinker Jaron Lanier.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Internet Splat Map (Flickr/Steve Jurvetson)

Wiring the physical world. How we’ll live when everything is online.

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, describes a chart showing the global interests of Liberty Reserve, during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (Richard Drew/AP)

Six billion dollars and what might be the biggest money laundering scheme in U.S. history. We’ll investigate.

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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 | 11:00 AM

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

 
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

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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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ONPOINT
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Jun 19, 2013
Border Texas

As the Senate debate over immigration heats up, we go to South Texas, the new front line in the battle over illegal border crossings.

Jun 19, 2013
Sir Ken Robinson. (Photo: Martin Mancha.)

Sir Ken Robinson, who gave the most watched TED Talk ever, tells us how to find what really makes us tick, and get the most out of life and work.

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Jun 18, 2013
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969. (NASA)

In the days of the Space Race, they became overnight celebrities as their husbands shot for the Moon. The Astronaut Wives Club.

 
Jun 18, 2013
Murnaghan Family

Are lab grown blood vessels, hearts and lungs the answer to the nation’s organ donor shortage? We’ll look at the brave new science.

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Questions on Civil Rights Champion Medgar Evers?
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. We’ll be talking about his life and legacy. What are your questions about Evers, about civil rights now?

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What’s Your Question For Mark Bittman?
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013

We’ve got a terrific On Point Live event coming up this Thursday evening. Tom will be interviewing food author and columnist Mark Bittman at the Paramount Theater in Boston.

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Tick Tock: The Secrets To Your Relationship To Time
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Claudia Hammond, author of “Time Warped: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Time Perception,” told us new memories make you feel like there’s more time, whereas routine makes it seem like the weeks and years zip by.

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