The Election in Iraq; SBC Communications Acquires AT&T; Teens and Sex on the Internet; Michael Shermer
The Election in Iraq
Larry talks with a variety of guests about Sunday’s Iraq election. How many people went to the polls? How much violence was there? And what is the short- and long-term significance of the election? Joining him is Michael Weiskopf, Senior Correspondent for Time magazine; Joe Cirincione, director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Michael Rubin, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute, and Alyssa Rubin, co-bureau chief of the Baghdad Bureau for the Los Angeles Times.
SBC Communications Acquires AT&T
SBC Communications is expected to acquire long-distance carrier AT&T, creating the largest telecommunications company in the United States. Larry Mantle talks with Steve Rosenbush of Business Week online, about how the merger would affect the telecommunications industry and consumers.
Teens and Sex on the Internet
According to with Patricia Greenfield, Director of UCLA’s Children’s Digital Media Center, American children are exposed to a tremendous amount of pornography and other adult sexual media. Larry talks with the UCLA Psychology Professor about her research of what she calls “today’s all-pervasive sexualized media environment” and the influence it has on teens.
Michael Shermer
Larry Mantle talks with Skeptic magazine’s Michael Shermer about his new book Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown (Owl Books). The book examines how scientists operate under pressure, during controversies and on the precipice of the unknown, turning a skeptical lens onto science itself. Shermer is a columnist for Scientific American, and he’s founder and director of the international Skeptics Society.