Q & A With Malcolm Gladwell

Author Malcolm Gladwell talks about his new book, “What the Dog Saw,” a compilation of his stories appearing in “The New Yorker” magazine.

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Book Review: How We Decide

In How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer dissects and explains how the brain decides; when it uses reason to arrive at the right decision and when it is better served by relying on intuition and emotion.

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Forrester Research's Bobby Tulsiani On Online Video

Forrester’s Bobby Tulsiani discusses his company’s recent report about online video providers but, more importantly, provides some insight into how online video is being used: Video is now an essential video tool for businesses, and the Forrester report is a guide of representative companies, he says.

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Jay Smooth On The Fall of Mass Media Reductionism

Jay Smooth is the creator of the Hip-Hop Music Blog, and video blogging site IllDoctrine. In 1991, he founded what has become New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad. Here he talks about the decline of mass media’s influence on the perception of cultures generally and on the perception of young black men, specifically.

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