Guest: Tilar Mazzeo
Book: Back Lane Wineries of NAPA
Date: Sunday May 16
Tilar J. Mazzeo is a cultural historian, biographer, luxury enthusiast, and passionate student of wine and food culture. She divides her time between the California wine country and the East Coast, where she is a professor of English at Colby College. Her latest book is "Back Lane Wineris of NAPA". Tune in this Sunday evening and here the passion in Tilars voice.
Is information, not matter or energy, the real building blocks of the universe? Is the cosmos actually a quantum computer and reality just some form of information processing? Are determinism and randomness actually opposite extremes when defining reality? How does a quantum computer work? These are just some of the complex and thought-provoking topics we will wrestle with tonight when Inquiry talks with VLATKO VEDRAL, Professor of Quantum Information Science at Oxford University and we go where no other interview has gone before: the mechanics of the cosmos and reality. Nothing less. Professor Vedral discusses his latest book DECODING REALITY: THE UNIVERSE AS QUANTUM INFORMATION. Be sure to tune in tonight to finally understand how something can come from nothing.
Inquiry welcomes PETER SULSKI, Artistic Director and KRISTA BUCKLAND REISNER, Development Director of the WORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY. Tonight they talk about the Society’s very unique SUMMER FESTIVAL , a “non-competitive, intensive chamber music program” for strings, woodwinds and pianists ages 12 and up. Held this year on the campus of Anna Maria College, musicians young and old spend five days rehearsing, practicing and learning to perform together. This culminates in a concert for the public. Tune in and learn about this exciting and unique musical program as well as a few of the other concerts and outreach programs that make the Worcester Chamber Music Society one of the cultural treasures of Central Massachusetts. For complete details, go to: http://www.worcesterchambermusic.org
Is there anybody out there? If so, as Enrico Fermi once asked, “Where is everybody?” After 50 years, S.E.T.I. (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has been hopefully listening for narrow-band radio messages from alien civilizations. But are we going about this search for extraterrestrial life in the best possible way? Tonight on Inquiry we have a thought provoking discussion with PAUL DAVIES, physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University. Professor Davies believes that S.E.T.I. is stuck in a rut and should be looking in novel places for otherworldly life. Like here on earth???? Tune in for a lively discussion about whether the universe is teeming with advanced civilizations or the possibility that we might be very much alone. Professor Davies’ book is titled THE EERIE SILENCE: RENEWING OUR SEARCH FOR ALIEN INTELLIGENCE.
On April 13, State Treasurer Tim Cahill, who is also an independent candidate for governor, announced that Massachusetts will withdraw more than $231 million of state funds from a Bank of America account because the lender refuses to cap credit-card interest rates at 18 percent.
Treasurer Cahill’s decision followed a meeting the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization held with Bank of America asking the lender to comply with the state’s usury law, which caps rates at 18 percent.
Michael Gelb is a leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. Michael is the author of the new book "Wine Drinking For inspired Thinking". A pioneer in the fields of creative thinking and innovative leadership, he leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Raytheon and YPO.
Sustainability is no longer a buzzword hyping simple recycling efforts. Every day, companies are doing all they can to decrease their carbon footprint. Celebrating these efforts, Vault released its 2nd Annual Vault Guide to Green Programs. But Earth Day is even more significant because of the economic implications associated with going green.
Our economy was battered last year and the green job market that has been struggling in the past years, is now poised to become the next great job market. And with the President’s stimulus emphasizing energy and renewable investments, the market has become hot like never before.
These green jobs are going to, in huge part, swing us back to a pre-9.7% unemployment rate economy.
On that note, Vault also released its Guide to Environmental Careers, offering job seekers an insider’s edge into entering this burgeoning market.
My guest is Aman Singh, editor of corporate social responsibility for Vault, which is a comprehensive resource for career management and job search information, including insider intelligence on salaries, hiring practices and company cultures.
Drawing on both new and neglected evidence, this book reconstructs Old John Brown’s aborted “war” to free the 3.8 million slaves in the American South before the Civil War. John Brown’s War Against Slavery chronicles how this aged American apostle of violence in behalf of the “downtrodden,” this abolitionist “fanatic” and “terroriser,” ultimately rescued his cause by going to the gallows with resolution and outward calm. By embracing martyrdom, John Brown helped to spread panic in the South and persuaded northern sympathizers that failure can be noble and political violence “righteous.”
The 1950s and early 1960s witnessed the birth of a new kind of comedy in America. Playing at small, intimate clubs like the “hungry i” in San Francisco, comedians like Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart and Mike Nichols and Elaine May redefined what was funny. Their material was topical, satirical and personal and their on-stage style unlike anything like that of the older “Copa and Catskill comedians”. Some brought newspapers on stage and read from them; others sat on a stool while delivering long monologues about politics. Others like Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs changed TV and paved the way for people like David Letterman. Tonight on Inquiry, we welcome back writer and media historian GERALD NACHMAN for the first part of an interview about these rebels. Nachman’s book is titled SERIOUSLY FUNNY: THE REBEL COMEDIANS OF THE 1950S AND 1960S.
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