Akhil Mathew talks about Divest Harvard

Akhil Mathew, spokesperson for Divest Harvard, talks about that group’s efforts to convince Harvard University to divest its holdings in the fossil fuel industry, recorded June 13, 2013.

 

Morgan Fox at MPP on cannabis reform

Morgan Fox, Communications Manager at the Marijuana Policy Project, makes the case for cannabis legalization and provides an update on the latest developments on the path to that goal, predicting legalization in “four or five states” by 2016 and “seven or eight” by 2020.  This interview was recorded from Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2013.

 

Tom Boellstorf talks about “Coming of Age in Second Life”

Tom Boellstorf, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, discusses his participant observation and ethnographic study of the virtual world Second Life, his findings, and their implications for the digital future, recorded from Irvine, California, on June 11, 2013.