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Audio/Visuals: Darwin's 200th birthday

Undergraduate biologists' birthday bash for Darwin is a zoo.

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Audio/Visuals: Speech, privacy, and the Internet

Lawrence Lessig's keynote address from the Nov. 21–22, 2008, conference
"Speech, Privacy, and the Internet: The University and Beyond"

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Audio/Visuals: Cancer and evolution

Dr. Ezra Cohen, a specialist in head and neck, lung, and esophageal cancers at the University of Chicago Medical Center, explains how Darwinian principles aid the study of cancer.

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Audio/Visuals: Lab's fastest fingers

During a recent computer-science class, a Lab School sixth grader impresses teacher Ruth Hansen, AB'06, and classmates with his 100-plus words per minute typing skills. How quickly and accurately do you type?

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Audio/Visuals: Meet Meresamun

Egyptologist Emily Teeter, PhD'90, and museum director Geoff Emberling discuss highlights from the Oriental Institute's newest exhibition, "The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt."

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Audio/Visuals: MaroonNews podcast

Chicago Maroon editors Mike Lipkin, '11, and Asher Klein, '11, run down the student newspaper's latest reporting.

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Audio/Visuals: In Bloom

Mixing photos with audio from archive.org, an anonymous creative soul reimagines the lectures of former social thought professor Allan Bloom, PhB'49, AM'53, PhD'55.

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Audio/Visuals: Dr. Horrible's sing-along (a cappella) blog

Rhythm and Jews perform "My Freeze Ray (Laundry Day)" from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in University Church before Off-Off Campus's final performance of winter quarter.

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Audio/Visuals: Who's lonelier?

Neuroscientist and psychology professor John Cacioppo answers audience questions at a lecture at Goethe-Institut Los Angeles about who gets lonelier: Americans or Italians? Extroverts or Introverts?

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Audio/Visuals: Two to tango

Award-winning dance instructor Angel Fabian Coria and his partner Paola Bordon perform for members of the Argentine Tango Club at a mid-February workshop in Ida Noyes.

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Audio/Visuals: Spoken word

During a Mandel Hall presentation last month called El Mexorcist 4: An Evening of Spoken Word Roulette, Artspeaks 5 fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña used acid Chicano humor, hybrid literary genres, multilingualism, and activist theory to reflect on identity, race, sexuality, pop culture, and new technologies in the post-9/11 era: "I love to cross the border between low and high art."

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Audio/Visuals: Detecting and treating pancreatic cancer

From the Medical Center's Science Life blog of news and ideas in biomedicine: Irving Waxman, director of the Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, explains why pancreatic cancer is so difficult to detect and treat—and how screening methods may improve soon.

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Audio/Visuals: Bringing a little 007 to 60637

Members of the a cappella group Ransom Notes sing "You Know My Name" from the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale with soloist Ali Ekrem Yeşilkanal, '12, at their 2009 winter concert in McCormick Lounge.

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Audio/Visuals: Leading the way in contemporary art

Renaissance Society director Susanne Ghez describes the importance
of showing cutting-edge work by regional artists.

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Audio/Visuals: A cappella delight

Voices in Your Head performed Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight"
at the International Championship of A Cappella in February.

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Audio/Visuals: Recession impressions

Artist Tiffany Gholar, AB'01, chronicles the economic crisis through her series Recessionism, featuring video (above) and shredded money assemblages.

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Audio/Visuals: Seth Lerer

Seth Lerer, PhD’81, took home this year's National Book Critics Circle award in criticism for his analyses of children's literature from Aesop’s fables to Harry Potter.

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Audio/Visuals: Codex in Crisis

As a part of the Authors@Google program last December, historian Anthony Grafton, AB'71, AM'72, PhD'75, spoke about his book Codex in Crisis.

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Audio/Visuals: International economics

Allen Sanderson, AM'70, talks about how economists think differently from the general public and why they frown when elected officials start talking about international affairs.

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Audio/Visuals: Sounds of faith

Professor emeritus Shakeela Hassan discusses her life-long commitment to promoting peaceful coexistence and understanding among different faith communities in an upcoming PBS documentary preview.

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Audio/Visuals: Music players

Saxophonist and composition graduate student Shawn Allison accompanies pianist and composer Danny Yu, '12, on his Introduction to Music: Materials and Design final-project composition.

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Audio/Visuals: No men, no drag, all singing

The all-female a cappella group Men in Drag perform "My Strongest Suit" from the musical Aida.

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Audio/Visuals: Sereno's surprising encounters with prehistory

Paleontologist Paul Sereno describes the "strange landscapes, scorching heat, and (sometimes) mad crocodiles" that await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius in this TED conference video podcast from earlier this year.

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Audio/Visuals: China climbs the ladder

The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, MBA'01, and James Fallows discuss the industrialization of China.

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Audio/Visuals: Martin Marty on John Calvin

Divinity School professor emeritus Martin Marty, PhD'56, discusses John Calvin and humanism in this preview of the Witherspoon Press documentary John Calvin: His Life & Legacy.


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Audio/Visuals: Private equity

At Chicago Booth's second annual "Working with Private Equity" speaker series last month, Professor Erik Hurst provided his insights into the state of the macroeconomy and the effect of policy choices now being made.

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Audio/Visuals: Astro-repairman

BadAstronomy.com's Phil Plait interviews NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, about the final Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.

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Audio/Visuals: A little (jazzy) night music

Jazz musicians hold a jam session at the Quadrangle Club.

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Audio/Visuals: Winter quarter in 18 seconds

With the help of his laptop and time-lapse portraiture, a 19-year-old undergrad creatively chronicles his changing appearance during winter quarter.

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Audio/Visuals: President Obama on John Hope Franklin

In April 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama talked about the legacy of professor emeritus of history John Hope Franklin.

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Audio/Visuals: Hail the bride

Earlier this month the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company and the Department of Music delighted Mandel Hall guests with "Hail the Bride of Seventeen Summers" from the comic opera Ruddigore: A Supernatural Fairytale.

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Audio/Visuals: Transformed into Van Gogh

Chicago Media Initiatives Group's Dave Pickett, AB'07, morphs into Vincent Van Gogh when his friend Talya Zemach-Bersin adds strategic strokes of paint to his face.

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Audio/Visuals: Civil liberties in America

Cable TV and Internet talk-show host Gregory Mantell, AB'93, interviews Law School professor Geoffrey Stone, JD'71, about the state of civil liberties in America during the most recent Bush administration.

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Audio/Visuals: Experimental documentary video

Students filmed Cities and Memory: The Brown Elephant—part of a larger interpretation of Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities for lecturer Judy Hoffman’s documentary-video class—at the Brown Elephant resale shop in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood.

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Audio/Visuals: "Crescent Venus"

Last month University of Chicago Library systems administrator Dean W. Armstrong, AB'03, captured Venus close to Earth with an orange filter filmed through a six-inch f/15 refractor from Ryerson Observatory.

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Audio/Visuals: Supporting the Olympics in Chicago

"We know how to have an urban celebration for ordinary people," says social-sciences professor and Olympics expert John MacAloon, AM'74, PhD'80. "This would be the greatest Olympics ever from that standpoint."

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Audio/Visuals: Writing Harold and Kumar

Hayden Schlossberg, AB’00, and writing partner Jon Hurwitz share secrets about making the Harold and Kumar films in an interview with Sneak Peek Television.

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Audio/Visuals: Private equity

Steven Kaplan, Chicago Booth professor of entrepreneurship and finance, describes why the California Public Employees’ Retirement System faces weakness in both traditional and alternative investments.

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Audio/Visuals: China’s economic relationship with the U.S.

Joshua Cooper Ramo, AB’92, explains how the new phrase catching on among Chinese bloggers—"leaving the dollar behind"—complicates U.S.–Chinese economic negotiations.

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Audio/Visuals: Talking Tiktaalik

Neil Shubin discusses the star of his best-selling book Your Inner Fish,
Tiktaalik, “the fish that took the first step for mankind.”

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Audio/Visuals: Pencils and the power of the market

In this 1980 clip from the PBS series Free to Choose, U of C economist Milton Friedman, AM’33, tells the story of a how many people it takes to make a pencil in order to explain “why the operation of the free market is so essential. Not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more, to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world.”

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Audio/Visuals: Hubble's Law and the Big Bang

During a Yale astrophysics class this past fall, a cosmology lecturer explains the redshift diagram discovered by astronomer Edwin Hubble, SB’10, PhD’17.

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Audio/Visuals: Come together

Soloist Miranda Meyer, '10, leads Voices in Your Head's winter concert a cappella performance of the Beatles' "Come Together."

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Audio/Visuals: Bike skids

Tyler Ross, '12, cycles through a demonstration of how to have fun on two wheels across the rain-soaked campus.

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Audio/Visuals: Fresh Princes of Hyde Park

The Student Government election voting is under way, and three nominees for the Class of 2012 College Council—David Chen, Ted Gonder, and “CK”—reach out to voters with their spin on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s theme song:

David:
Now this is a story all about how
Three UChicago students from different towns
All came together and sat right there
To be on College Council sitting in big leather chairs
CK:
In Shengzhen, China, born and raised
In the Regenstein was where I spent most of my days
Stressing out, studying, studying in school
And eating some dumplings outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to some good
Started AIF in my neighborhood
I had some noodles and I cut my hair
I said, “These noodles are too hot! I’m running for College Council!”
Ted:
We dance with Bartlett workers day after day
We go to Ratner Center to lift some weights
When you see our names at the top of the ticket,
Check yes, click send, and we might as well kick it!

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Audio/Visuals: "Alone yet together..."

South Asian Students Association members perform at Akela, the group’s 22nd annual cultural show.

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Audio/Visuals: Video killed the radio stars

Student a cappella group Ransom Notes performs Regina Spektor’s “On the Radio” in late March.

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Audio/Visuals: Super-sized me

Jean Twenge, AB’93, AM’93, author of The Narcissism Epidemic, describes the differences between confidence and narcissism in an interview with Meredith Vieira on TODAY.

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Audio/Visuals: Rocket men

STS-125 commander Scott Altman and lead spacewalker John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, discuss their upcoming flight to the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Audio/Visuals: Poetry out loud

As part of her virtual book tour, Shaindel Beers, AM’00, answers questions about her new book, A Brief History of Time; shares her thoughts about print-on-demand versus offset printing; and reads her award-winning poem “Rewind” during a 20-minute interview with the blogger behind What to Wear During an Orange Alert?

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Audio/Visuals: GOP in the Land of Lincoln

Former assistant attorney general under President Reagan, Joe A. Morris, AB’73, JD’76—”the Godfather of Conservative Republican thought in the Midwest”—assesses the state of the Republican party in Illinois on Jeff Berkowitz’s Public Affairs news and politics talk show.

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Audio/Visuals: Debating the economic crisis

Law professor Eric Posner asserts that blaming ordinary people for the the current economic crisis is not useful. Instead, he suggests that we should talk about what the government should do.

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Audio/Visuals: Fewer calories, longer lives

During an interview yesterday with Stephen Colbert to promote his new book The End of Overeating, former FDA commissioner and physician David Kessler, JD’78, explains why he wants to save lives by getting Americans to eat less: “More people die of obesity than die of all infectious diseases and terrorism.”

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Audio/Visuals: The elephant in the room

Pundit and statistician Nate Silver, AB’00, talks about what’s next for the Republican Party during a conversation with Rachel Maddow.

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Audio/Visuals: Networking to shatter glass ceilings

Retired Goldman Sachs & Co. partner Josephine Linden, MBA’83, sees mentoring as everyone’s responsibility, she told a Columbia University panel.

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Audio/Visuals: Out of this world

John M. Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88, says he and the other Hubble spacewalkers are “ready to go.”

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Audio/Visuals: Hot salsa

Members of the University of Chicago Salsa Performance Group dance to “Pura Candela” by Fruko y Sus Tesos.

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Audio/Visuals: Math to a higher power

Divinity School student Matthew Robinson sings of ministry and mathematics for a crowd in Swift Hall.

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Audio/Visuals: Love song for UChicago

Musician William C. White, AB’05, performs a song from his musical about a “sexy young French foreign exchange student. The character has come to the University of Chicago because she’s fed up with French philosophy—so much so that she’s decided to retire her life of amorous liaisons and buckle down and study.”

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Audio/Visuals: Adult baby food

Former FDA commissioner David A. Kessler, JD'78, suggests that the food industry is creating what could be considered adult baby food, because what “we’re eating is pre-digested. It’s pre-fried; it’s bathed in sugar and fat.”

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Audio/Visuals: Fossilized flowers

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“You know we can say a certain amount about plant evolution by studying living plants, but if we really want to calibrate the tempo of evolution, we need to test our ideas from living plants based on what the fossil record tells us, based on the direct evidence from the past,” says Chicago paleobotanist and evolutionary biologist Sir Peter Crane in an 8-minute podcast interview.

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Audio/Visuals: Show starters

Balle Bhangra students (above) open for guest performers SoReal Cru (below)—an award-winning MTV dance team from Houston—during the closing ceremony of the PanAsia Spring Festival held Sunday in Hutch Commons.

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Audio/Visuals: Lucy's lessons in evolution

Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, AM'70, PhD'74, and his colleagues
recall their discovery of "Lucy"—a fossil link between primates and humans—in this segment
from a PBS special about evolution.

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Audio/Visuals: Partisan power

Blogger Ana Marie Cox, AB'94, chats with Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank, AM'89, PhD'94, on the state of the Republican Party.

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Audio/Visuals: “It wasn’t torture.”

Elizabeth Cheney, JD'96, defends interrogation methods—and talks about crashing her dad's car—during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe while debating with Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson about an op-ed he wrote about her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. (via Twitter @UChicagoLaw)

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Audio/Visuals: Organ recital

Professor Neil Shubin describes how new organs arise through evolutionary processes at a University of California lecture earlier this month.

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Audio/Visuals: Conducting appearance

Leon Botstein, AB'67, conducts the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra through a rehearsal performance of a concerto written by a Hungarian composer and Holocaust victim. The concerto had its Israeli premiere earlier this month.

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Audio/Visuals: Politics and Pakistan

"On both fronts—both domestic politics front and foreign national front—the Pakistani regime, the Zardari regime, is facing big legitimacy crises," says South Asian Islam and Pakistan historian Manan Ahmed, PhD'08, who closely follows current events in Pakistan, as well as how they get talked about in the United States.

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Audio/Visuals: Bailamos

Salsa performance group students in color-coordinated outfits—including Magazine intern Shira Tevah, '09, in blue—dance to Sonora Carruseles's Micaela at the University's Ballroom & Latin Dance Association's spring party last Saturday.

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Audio/Visuals: Big bang theorists

Cosmology professor Bruce Winstein discusses the QUIET experiment, an effort to detect remnants of radiation emitted following the big bang, when gravity waves rippled through the very fabric of space-time itself.

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Audio/Visuals: Marine Week Chicago

Marines give women on campus some self-defense training as part of citywide demonstrations and activities held last week during Marine Week Chicago.

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Audio/Visuals: Singin' Gwen Stefani

Members of student a cappella group Men in Drag sing No Doubt's "Just a Girl" for their April fund-raising event.

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Audio/Visuals: Flamenco footsteps

Performers "dance the sevillanas" at the University's Ballroom & Latin Dance Association spring party.

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Audio/Visuals: "All-American girls"

In a digital tribute to Milda, Valerie, Janis, and Kim—new graduates of the Pritzker School of Medicine's internal medicine-pediatrics residency training program—friends sing well-wishes set to Tom Petty's "American Girl" and share original and Photoshopped pictures. Captions like "Santa gave Janis her first doctor kit, and she 'misplaced' the needle for the shot" (0:36) and "Val studied gonadal hormones in rats" (1:36) liven up the scrapbook.

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Audio/Visuals: Piano for two

Stephanie Trick, '09, and College exchange student Elliot Leung perform Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 3 in F Major at a late April concert at International House.

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Audio/Visuals: A choice interview

Chicago Booth professor Richard H. Thaler talks about real people making real choices based on nudges.

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Audio/Visuals: Poetic musing

Through her short documentary film The Original Slam, director Melina Kolb, AB'06, shares the story of how Chicago's legendary Green Mill pub has become a home for poetic expression.

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Audio/Visuals: So derivative

Philip Guziec, MBA'00—a derivatives strategist for Morningstar, Inc.'s individual investor business unit—defines derivatives and explains why they're considered to be the financial instrument at the center of the economic crisis.

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Audio/Visuals: The Age of the Unthinkable

Joshua Cooper Ramo, AB'92, (start watching at 39:57) tells Charlie Rose about the process of writing and putting together his new book, The Age of the Unthinkable.

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Audio/Visuals: Cyber czar

"The government wants to make sure that the key digital infrastructure is secure," says Law School professor Randy Picker, JD'85. "To the extent that there are things that the federal government can do, Obama's making sure those steps are being taken." (Interview: Real Audio format, 15 minutes)

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Audio/Visuals: Buggin' out

Fascinated by bugs, Julia Oldham, MFA'05, creates art by mimicking repetitive movements of insects.

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Audio/Visuals: Spring shenanigans

Scav Hunt might be over, but some students are finding other outlets for their creativity.

Geophysical-sciences professor David Archer's global-warming class stops teaching when a pink godzilla makes a surprise appearance to dance for the class.

A College mischief maker in Flint House gets her flexible friend to squeeze into a suitcase before she makes the rounds in the Max Palevsky dorms with her special package rolling by her side.

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Audio/Visuals: Corporate dream weaver

Entrepreneur Gary Hoover, AB'73, speaks on dreaming up your business ideas, understanding yourself, and turning your passion into reality by finding what customers need.

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Audio/Visuals: Open mic poetry

Shaindel Beers, AM'00, reads her poem "Clean" as part of an open mic at Oregon's Northwest Poets' Concord event.

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Audio/Visuals: Ruth Katz Bowman, AB'64

During Alumni Weekend before the first session of the Community in Bloom tour, Ruth Katz Bowman, AB'64, talked with the Magazine and shared what she learned during her University of Chicago experience and what's different about campus between now and when she attended the College.

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Audio/Visuals: Communal responsibility versus individual responsibility

"The private people still own the businesses but the politicians tell them what to do," says Hoover Institute senior fellow Thomas Sowell, PhD'68, during an interview with Glenn Beck.

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Audio/Visuals: Sing it loud

Mariangela Anzalone, AB’05, doesn't need the lyrics when she sings the alma mater proudly with her friend Deb at Alumni Weekend's awards ceremony last weekend.

In case you want to sing along, here are the lyrics:

Today we gladly sing the praise of her
Whose daughters and whose sons now loyal voices
proudly raise
To bless her with our benisons

Of all fair mothers fairest she
Most wise of all that wisest be
Most true of all the true say we

Is our alma mater

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Audio/Visuals: Monsters of the Midway

The University of Chicago football team plays the University of Michigan Wolverines.

According to the Edison camera operator, this was the first successful filming of a college football game.

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Audio/Visuals: Health-care sacrifice

"Because we've become a country where shared sacrifice is not just politically incorrect, it's politically terminal, we aren't being asked to cut health-care costs in any tangible way," says Peter G. Peterson, MBA'51, cofounder of the Blackstone Group and author of The Education of an American Dreamer. "I would have much preferred that the president say, 'Yes, we need universal health care, but we also need to cut health-care costs, and here's the sacrifice we're going to have to make.'"

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Audio/Visuals: Taking control of the American appetite

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Former FDA commissioner David A. Kessler, JD'78, talks about his new book The End of Overeating.

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Audio/Visuals: Top chef

White House chef Sam Kass, U-High'98, AB'04, talks about eating well and gives Philadelphia Phillie Ryan Howard a tour of President Obama's garden and honeybee hive.

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Audio/Visuals: Guerrilla tango

Last Friday two pairs of dancers took advantage of the nice weather and performed an improv tango in the Law School's reflecting pool.

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Audio/Visuals: Rockin' out to Rihanna

University of Chicago student a cappella group Voices in Your Head performs Rihanna's song "Shut Up and Drive."

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Audio/Visuals: The face only a mummy could love

Chicago-based forensic artist Josh Harker reconstructs the Oriental Institute mummy Meresamun's face using CT scan 3D imagery captured last fall at the Medical Center.

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Audio/Visuals: Martin makes a difference

Areva Martin, AB'84, an attorney and the mother of an autistic son, cofounded the Special Needs Network to help needy families with developmentally disabled children. Since its launch three years ago, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit has helped provide resources and services to more than 15,000 families.

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Audio/Visuals: Orisha Shango

In honor of what would have been her 100th birthday, listen to Katherine Dunham, PhB'36, describe the importance of Orisha Shango, "one of the strongest of the African gods."

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Audio/Visuals: What a gas!

Physics professors Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel demonstrate principles of physics with explosive results.

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Audio/Visuals: Remembering John Callaway

John Callaway, founding director of the University of Chicago's William Benton Fellowship Program in Broadcast Journalism, died Tuesday. To honor his legacy, the Museum of Classic Chicago Television staff compiled this short collection of "outtakes and little pieces made just for fun."

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Audio/Visuals: Saving our parents

Between one and two million Americans over the age of 65 is injured or mistreated by someone they depend on for care. Actor Ed Asner, X'48, speaks out about elder abuse in the documentary Saving Our Parents.

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Audio/Visuals: Whassup with the economy?

Four members of the Chicago Booth faculty chat on the phone like it’s 1999 in this video created for the business school's annual comedy variety show, Chicago Booth Follies.

Jake Grubman, '11

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Audio/Visuals: Lolita in transition

Started in Japan during the 1970s, the Lolita fashion movement has spread its bows, knee socks, and petticoats around the world. Four U of C undergrads document the city of Chicago's Lolita community in their short film Lolita in Transition.

Jake Grubman, '11

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Audio/Visuals: Persepolis tablets

In 1933 University archaeologists working at Persepolis in Iran discovered tens of thousands of clay tablets with texts in numerous scripts and languages. Matthew Stolper, the John A. Wilson professor of Oriental studies at the Oriental Institute, discusses the history and significance of this collection.

Jake Grubman, '11

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Audio/Visuals: A Love Supreme

Watch Kurt Elling, X'92, and the Airmen of Note perform John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." Coltrane died on this day in 1967.

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Audio/Visuals: Lose weight the Saul Bellow way

Actor David Issacson takes us through his strategy to shed the pounds
required to transform himself into Nobel Prize-winning author Saul
Bellow, X'39, for the critically-acclaimed play "Strauss at Midnight,"
now showing at the Chicago DCA Theater through Sunday.

Luke Fiedler, '10

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Audio/Visuals: Auburn's directorial debut

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Auburn, AB'91,
talks at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival about the new challenges
presented in directing his first movie, The Girl In The Park,
starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth.

Luke Fiedler, '10

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Audio/Visuals: From Washington, with an eye on Obama

Founder of the political blog Wonkette and a national correspondent for Air America, Ana Marie Cox, AB'94, discusses how the Obama administration is changing the ways people receive news from and communicate with the White House.

Luke Fiedler, '10

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Audio/Visuals: Bork's new book

Legal scholar Robert Bork, AB'48, JD'53, talks with Eugene Meyer, president of the Federalist Society, about his recently published book A Time to Speak.

Luke Fiedler, '10

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Audio/Visuals: Academic success and family life

Professor James Heckman discusses the importance of family life for the success in the classroom as part of the 2009 Chautauqua Institution Summer Lecture Series.

Jake Grubman, '11

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Audio/Visuals: Balle Bhangra bustin' a move

The University's Balle Bhangra team performs a music and dance routine for the crowd at a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Rays.

Luke Fiedler, '10

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Audio/Visuals: Poetry reading

shaindelbeers.jpg Shaindel Beers, AM’00, reads her poem “HA!” from her first collection of poetry, A Brief History of Time (Salt Modern Poets, 2009). Beers uses a variety of styles in her collection to discuss life in rural America and social justice. >> Watch the video (YouTube)

Jake Grubman, '11

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Audio/Visuals: Touch of Glass

Philip Glass, AB'56, talks about minimalism and “ideology” in music during an informal, hour-long conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page.

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Audio/Visuals: UChicago’s most eligible bachelor?

Raúl Coronado, assistant professor of English, reps Hyde Park on Chicago Magazine’s list of the city of Chicago's top 20 singles. He’s on leave for the academic year, so the fawning will have to wait.

Jake Grubman, ’11

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Audio/Visuals: Mr. Fix-it

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Matthew Crawford, AM’92, PhD’00, sits down with the BBC to discuss his transition from academia to motorcycle-ology, explaining the satisfaction of not being able “weasel your way out” of fixing a Ducati engine.

Jake Grubman, '11

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Audio/Visuals: Visualizing the heartland

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Opening October 1, the Smart Museum's exhibit Heartland offers an idiosyncratic look at the innovative forms of artistic creation taking place in the American heartland. Hear artists Artur Silva, Greely Myatt, and Deb Sokolow talk about their installations and performances.

Click on the image above to go to the Smart's Web site where the video is hosted.


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Audio/Visuals: Sound of science

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Carl Sagan, AB'54, SB'55, SM'56, PhD'60, sings about the universe with the help of Auto-Tune (and creative sound-blending by musician John Boswell).

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Audio/Visuals: Green house

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Environmentalist and recent "alternative Nobel" recipient David Suzuki, AM'93, shares his energy-saving tips.

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Audio/Visuals: Circular logic

Music by Philip Glass, AB'56, accompanies "Geometry of Circles," an animation created thirty years ago for Sesame Street.

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Audio/Visuals: Superfreakonomist

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Economics professor Steven D. Levitt talks about controversial findings in his new book SuperFreakonomics, the followup to Freakonomics.

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Audio/Visuals: Chicago symphony

Listen to "Allegro inquieto" from music professor Easley Blackwood's Symphony no. 5, op. 34, as performed in 1992 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted by James DePreist.

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Audio/Visuals: Influence of immigrants

Public television journalist Ray Suarez, AM'92, talks about immigration as it relates to business, politics, culture and demographic changes in our schools.

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Audio/Visuals: Choice architecture

PBS Nightly Business Report's Susie Gharib interviews Chicago Booth professor Richard Thaler about behavioral finance and its practical implications.

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Audio/Visuals: Humbling experience

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Philip Roth, AM'55, sits down with Tina Brown to talk about writing and his latest novel, The Humbling. Watch one of the six segments from their chat:

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Audio/Visuals: Artists’ rendering

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Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien unveil the design for the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts.

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