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Great Ideas Podcast

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Great Ideas is a monthly podcast featuring Johns Hopkins University researchers and scholars in lively conversations about the most interesting ideas in science and technology, the humanities and the social sciences. Host Elizabeth Tracey asks the questions you'd ask if you could sit down with astronomers, economists, philosophers or historians working on the cutting edge of their disciplines.

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April 2008: Yash Gupta, the first dean of Johns Hopkins' new Carey Business School, says he wants his students to learn that making a difference is more important than maximizing shareholder value.

Time mileposts in this program:
0:14 Newly created Carey Business School
1:02 Education a new kind of leader
2:03 How do we go to where customers reside?
3:07 Making a difference is first
4:14 We see our needs and challenges as immense
5:15 Intellectual flexibility
6:02 We are unique
7:13 We create innovation
8:08 In academia there are never enough resources
10:01 End
For more information:
Carey Business School
Yash Gupta bio

April 2008: Light does a lot more than make it possible to see. Samer Hattar, assistant professor of biology, says exposure to light also affects such functions as mood, ability to learn and ability to sleep.

Time mileposts in this program:
0:22 Light can affect all of your functioning
1:30 Why is this important?
2:10 Allows organism to anticipate light or dark
3:05 Manipulate Circadian rhythm
4:10 Get a lot of light during day
5:10 Lacked an animal model
6:26 What happens to ability of animal to learn?
7:48 Have to allow light environment to be replaced
8:25 Perpetual jet lag like symptoms
9:15 Activated by more blue light
10:40 End
For more information:
Samer Hatter Web site
Hatter's latest research

February 2008: In the second part of a two-part interview, Johns Hopkins University President William R. Brody discusses what can be done to improve U.S. health care and what doctors — and patients — can do to make it happen.

Time mileposts in this program:
0:30 Television program on health care issues
0:49 Focus on chronic diseases
1:35 Incentives in the system are wrong
2:25 Provider side changes
3:15 Evidence-based medicine
4:26 Cost of care in last six months of life
5:10 Create more transparency about quality
6:00 Citizens need to demand transparency
7:13 Acceptable error rate?
7:42 End
For more information:
Bill Brody on health care
The Health Care '08 television series

January 2008: Johns Hopkins University President William R. Brody, who is promoting a fuller and more meaningful discussion of health care reform issues, talks in this special edition of "Great Ideas" about what's missing from the debate in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Time mileposts in this program:
0:27 Healthcare is the number one or two domestic issue
1:02 Big part of problems is Medicare
2:06 For the amount of money we're spending we're not getting the benefit
3:19 Healthcare is a non-system
3:49 Cost and coverage
4:42 Common standard for billing
6:00 We can't do this
6:37 Retirement Living Network program "Health Care '08"
7:04 End
For more information:
Bill Brody on health care
The Health Care '08 television series

January 2008: In a year when a woman is a leading contender for the Democratic nomination, Johns Hopkins communications faculty member Erika Falk discusses what happened to women candidates — and especially how they were covered in the news media — in eight prior presidential elections.

Time mileposts in this program:
0:25 Looked at eight campaigns
1:30 Elizabeth Dole vs. Steve Forbes
2:21 Sexism and sex stereotypes
3:38 Associate traits with men or women
5:00 Manipulate the stereotypes
5:53 Talk more about issues
7:56 Several studies looking at lower level races
8:50 All the evidence suggests that despite bias a woman could run and win
9:20 How does it affect womens' decision to run?
10:43 End
For more information:
News release
Erika Falk bio
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns

November 2007: Johns Hopkins political scientist Kellee Tsai discusses the explosive growth of capitalism in China and its political implications, particularly whether capitalism must inevitably lead to democracy in the world's most populous nation. Tsai recently published Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China.

Time mileposts in this program:
0:10 Capitalism without democracy
1:06 I conducted a formal national survey
2:02 Microentrepeneurs started enterprise
3:01 "collective enterprise"
4:14 Central government reaction
5:12 Certain parts of Chinese economy government owned
6:14 Transition from free market to democracy?
7:13 Poor manufacturing standards
8:12 Localities will get involved
9:23 Didn't demand mainline participation
10:37 End
For more information:
- Kellee Tsai Web Page on the JH Political Science Website
- Kellee Tsai Web page
- Capitalism without Democracy

September 2007: Engineer James West discusses noise in hospitals: why it's so loud, what problems the din causes for patients and staff, and what his research shows can be done about it.

For more information:
- James West Web page
- James West awarded National Medal of Techbology

August 2007: Political scientists Benjamin Ginsberg and Matthew Crenson discuss their latest joint book, Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced; its prequel, Downsizing Democracy; and Ginsberg's newest solo effort, The American Lie.
According to Crenson and Ginsberg, the American presidency is out of control and there may be little hope of restoring the traditional balance of power in Washington.

Publishers' Web Sites for the Three Books
- Downsizing Democracy
- Presidential Power
- The American Lie
News Releases for the Books
- Q&A: Power of U.S. Presidency Is Growing, Poli Sci Profs Say
   [Downsizing Democracy]
- Presidents Gone Wild: Can They Be Tamed?
   [Presidential Power]
- Hate Politics? You're Not Alone, Johns Hopkins Expert Says
   [The American Lie]

July 2007: Dark energy with Adam Riess
It makes the universe grow at an ever-expanding rate. It accounts for as much as 70 percent of the energy/mass total in the universe. But it's only recently been discovered and no one really knows what it is. Astrophysicist Adam Riess discusses "dark energy." Riess led the team that published the first scientific paper on the phenomenon.

For more information:
- Riess Web site at JHU
- Riess Web site at Space Telescope Science Institute
- Dark Energy Discovery Leader, Adam Riess, to Share Gruber Prize
- Riess is co-winner of Shaw Prize

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