Next Wednesday, at 9 pm, respected journalist Bill Moyers will return to PBS and air a 90-minute presentation called Buying the War.

Contrary to popular belief, there are a few professors out there who actually have their own accounts on FaceBook, much to the horror of their students. Now you can hear their take on new media and the university in a biweekly podcast, Digital Campus.
The series features a panel of new media scholars at George Mason University discussing how Web 2.

When you think Broadway, you don’t necessarily think first about plays that make science its point of focus. Or at least
you didn’t before Copenhagen hit the stage in 1998 and dramatically told the story of Niels Bohr’s shadowy meeting with Werner Heisenberg back in 1941. Since then, science plays have been going strong.

Here’s the list in Letters, Drama and Music (see full list here):

FICTION –The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
DRAMA — Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
HISTORY — The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the proliferation of audio podcasts has been a boon for book lovers and writers. Looking around the digital landscape, you’ll discover a number of podcasts that enhance the experience of reading good old fashioned books. Let’s quickly have a look at the lay of the land.

Here’s a quick heads up: TUAW.com (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) posted a nice feature that offers a new slant on what we often do here at Open Culture. They scanned the different international iTunes stores and identified free music, video, and audio books available to users in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Britain and New Zealand.

A faithful reader sent in lyrics that seemed quite apropos to Ed’s piece yesterday on free music in the subway. Let’s post them. (Thanks John.

Recently a Washington Post staff writer, Gene Weingarten, decided to conduct an usual experiment about high culture. He talked one of the world’s finest violinists, Joshua Bell, into taking his multimillion dollar fiddle to the Washington D.C. metro and playing incognito for commuters during the morning rush hour.

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The narrative of Albert Einstein’s life provides hope to every underachiever out there. Einstein was slow to start speaking. His teachers predicted early on that he’d never amount to much. When he completed his graduate work, he was the only student in his cohort who couldn’t land a university position.