June ‘08 Pop!Cast Premieres
Hi, Pop!Tech blog devotees. In a week of introductions, allow me to add another. I’m Jason Rzepka, and I’ve recently joined on as Pop!Tech’s first-ever communications director. You can learn more about my background here and please — keep those cards and letters coming.
I’ll pop up on here from time-to-time, typically with a Pop!Tech update. Like today, when we’ve just released four new thought-provoking Pop!Cast videos.
- Agricultural impresario Cary Fowler is kind of a latter-day Superman: his mission is to protect life on Earth, and he even operates out of an arctic fortress. While Dr. Fowler can’t fly or leap tall buildings, his work has captured the world’s imagination (1, 2), and he’s safeguarding mankind’s future with a practical solution: seeds.
- A decade of e-mailing, IM’ing and social networking is beginning to undo 40 million years of touching as a primary human modality. Nina Jablonski – acclaimed primatologist, evolutionary biologist and Penn State anthropology department head – explores this change, man’s role as the only “self-decorating ape,” and how our underappreciated skin holds the key to our humanity.
- Watch pioneering marine ecologist and Scripps Institution professor Enric Sala build a time machine to the 16th century – exposing a pristine coral reef few human eyes have ever glimpsed. He also explains how 99.9% of the world’s coral reef research has been flawed and posits tourism as a way to save these endangered, natural wonders.
- With roots in folk and country-blues, Kelly Joe Phelps serves up music the Washington Post says is brimming with “poignancy, passion and spirituality.” Listen in as the distinctive singer-songwriter wows the Pop!Tech audience with plaintive melodies and heartfelt lyrics.
You can also experience more than 70 of the all-time best Pop!Tech presentations – including talks and performances from the likes of Thomas Friedman, John Legend, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson, Brian Eno, Caleb Chung and many more – in our growing Pop!Cast archive at www.poptech.org/popcasts. Every Pop!Cast is available as a free download, and you can also subscribe to RSS or iTunes feeds so you’ll automatically be updated when new editions premiere.
Happy viewing!
Comments
Noodles Aug 23, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Hope things are going well at your new gig. I’m always checking in for new stuff.