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Brave New World? The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University recently held a panel discussion on The New Biology and the Self , an apt topic for the likes of Steven Pinker, the Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University,  Noga Arikha, a historian of ideas and the author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, and the  Melvin Konner, a professor of anthropology and assoc. professor of psychiatry and neurology at Emory University. The panel was moderated by Tufts professor Kevin Dunn.

Henry David Thoreau is justly famous for his book Walden, which tells the story of the two years he spent living by the pond, in the Concord woods. But he also wrote a journal, which he started at age 20 in 1837, and kept up until 1861, shortly before he died. This diary of Thoreau s daily thoughts and experiences will be published later this month by New York Review Books Classics, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this autumn. Edwin Frank, the editor of the series, speaks with ThoughtCast at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Henry David Thoreau is justly famous for his book Walden, which tells the story of the two years he spent living by the pond, in the Concord woods. But he also wrote a journal, which he started at age 20 in 1837, and kept up until 1861, shortly before he died. This diary of Thoreau s daily thoughts and experiences will be published later this month by New York Review Books Classics, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this autumn. Edwin Frank, the editor of the series, speaks with ThoughtCast at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Henry David Thoreau is justly famous for his book "Walden," which tells the story of the two years he spent living by the pond, in the Concord woods. But he also wrote a journal, which he started at age 20 in 1837, and kept up until 1861, shortly before he died. This diary of Thoreau's daily thoughts and experiences will be published shortly by New York Review Books Classics. Edwin Frank, the editor of the series, speaks with ThoughtCast at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Milking Time at Lovejoy Brook Farm About 40 years ago, farms were thick on the ground in Andover, a rural town in southern Vermont. Today, 75-year-old Lydia Ratcliff’s Lovejoy Brook Farm is the last working farm still in operation. But can it survive much longer? ThoughtCast s Jenny Attiyeh grew up visiting Lydia each summer, listening to her tales, eating fresh corn and carrots from her garden, and watching the animals give birth, and grow old. On her last visit to see Lydia, Jenny brought along her microphone … Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She s farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she s now come down with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, she still climbs on top of that tractor in hay season. Does she offer a lesson for the rest of us? Does she represent the future of farming in Vermont, or is she the last of a dying breed? Click here to listen (9 minutes.)

Great advice from people who did open video already. visionOntv's 1st report from the Open Video Conference in New York 19-20 June. http://visionon.tv http://openvideoconference.org

Great advice from people who did open video already. visionOntv's 1st report from the Open Video Conference in New York 19-20 June. http://visionon.tv http://openvideoconference.org

The term network neutrality was the brainchild of Tim Wu of Columbia Law School. So what does this term mean, and what power does it have politically? ThoughtCast spoke with Tim Wu at the "Future of the Internet" conference, held at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.