Sunday, March 22, 2009

Earshot March 19th

Joined by Lars Johnson, Kevin Satter, and Kate Rhode from the NYU Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. 

Earshot Mar. 19th

 Enjoy the insight into what's been going on around campus to promote animal rights!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Doppler Effect March 17th


(Picture of Scott Hed taken from the Sportsman's Alliance website)


With us today was Scott Hed the director of the Sportsman's Alliance for Alaska. Their main mission is trying to stop the construction of Pebble Mine, which is a proposed mine that could potentially destroy the natural resources that the area has.

Doppler Effect

What I liked about the interview was the portion we spent talking about how the Alaskan's voted. I am constantly surprised by how often people end up being confused at the ballot box, and the serious consequences that this leads to. Discussing the various ways that the corporations skewed the topic also put a bit of a dent in the perceived democracy of the event.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Earshot March 12th

Joined by the NYU College Libertarians. 

Earshot Mar. 12th

Nice contrast from last week's interview with the Young Communists League! 

Friday, March 13, 2009

Citywide March 11th

yay

Doppler Effect March 10th

With us today was Gary Fung, the creator of Isohunt. Isohunt is a Toronto based torrenting site that, like Google, searches other sites for more torrenting links, than if they were a singular entitiy.

Interview

A lot of insight regarding the torrenting business, and what the future of downloading holds. Also, we discussed the different things that are happening with legislation and the current laws that surround torrenting.

Citywide march 4th

Here it is!

Doppler Effect March 3rd

Heya,

We spoke to the creator of Pandora Tim Westergren about the Music Genome Project.

Tim had some interesting ideas about current day copyright laws and the effect of royalty fees on the internet radio business.


Here's the interview


I liked the interivew, some of his answers surprised me, since they seemed to be a lot less conflicting than I thought they would be.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Earshot March 5th

In a discussion about the role of communism in today's politics, Kaity Chiocca and Konrad Cukla, founders of the Young Communist's League at NYU, highlight the importance of expressing ideas that are portrayed as uncommon in the United States. But they note that many of the communist ideals are not so extreme compared to current social shifts and communism may also be rooted in this country's history.  

Earshot Mar. 5th

A particular point of interest toward the end of the conversation was whether socializing health care would cause quality to decline. Kaity disagreed and mentioned how many developed countries have comparable, if not better, health care with socialized systems. 

Hope you enjoy the peek into the far left!

~Alexis

Friday, March 6, 2009

Earshot February 26th

Stern juniors, Danil Subkhankulov and Sagar Vachhani, came in to discuss going into the finance field in the midst of a financial crisis. In fact, Sagar has had a change of heart and is shifting his future plans entirely. Danil, on the other hand is sticking through the turmoil in hopes of a turnaround in the long run.

Earshot Feb. 26th

Both students have reason for their decisions, sometimes rooted in the impression they have from the Stern school, and the debate they spark exemplifies the larger issue of whether the government should step in to aid failing businesses. Hope the discussion sheds some light on the attitudes of those just entering the field.

~Alexis