I WANT MY PBS!

After the last post, I realized we just offered the audience a lot of praise for July '64, but it's not something they can now go watch. Given the digital distribution nature of today's world, the inability to see this terrific film is... well, ridiculous. On every level. First, because it offers no value sitting on a shelf somewhere. Second, because it's so much better than 99% offered on our 500 channel universe. Third because the documentary, itself, is the best of an emerging digital genre that combines cinematic simplicity (the story is generated less by images than the voices... Read more →


Boomers at Work. Old or Wise?

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Human Resource professional Sunny Bates talks with Titus Levi and Jonathan Field about work-place attitudes facing Baby Boomers as they move close to retirement. Stream (click here to play on your computer) Podcast (click here to download to your iPod or another MP3 device) Sunny Bates is the author of How to Earn What You're Worth, and CEO of Sunny Bates Associates. Read more →


Paula Fass on the History of Babyhood

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Guest Paula Fass Jonathan Field talks with historian Paula Fass about "babyhood" in 20th century America. Fass dives into the way changing ideas about babies translated into products, as well as conceptions of citizenship, progress, and what makes a meaningful adult life. Fass is Byrne Professor of History at UC, Berkeley, and the author of several books on childhood, including The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s; Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education; Kidnapped: A History of Child Abduction in the United States, and is the co-editor of the Childhood in America.... Read more →


Age & Work

THREE PARTS

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PART I Marion Asnes talks about the issues America faces as the Baby-Boomers move into their senior years and face retirement with economist Lawrence Kotlikoff and anthropologist Joel Savishinsky. Stream (click here to play on your computer) Podcast (click here to play on an iPod or another MP3 device) Guests Joel S. Savishinsky (author of Breaking The Watch) is a cultural anthropologist with a strong interest in aging. He is professor of anthropology at Ithaca College. Lawrence J. Kotlikoff (co-author of The Coming Storm) is a professor of economics at Boston University, and former chairman... Read more →