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• Underwriters Laboratories Monday June 13, 2005 - For more than 100 years, Americans have relied on Underwriters Laboratories to safety test products that are used daily in their homes and offices. Hear about the history of this unique nonprofit, and how its effected changes in the development of everything from hair dryers to bullet proof glass.
• Art Loss Register - When a famous piece of art goes missing, the Art Loss Register normally gets the first call. A conversation with this organization that combines the expertise and attention to detail of the insurance, art and law enforcement industries.
• Is Bill Cosby Right - Michael Eric Dyson, author, Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Bill Cosby ignited a firestorm last year when he turned a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of 'Brown v. Board of Education' into a sharply critical lamentation of the parenting skills and values of some in the African American community.

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• Art Loss Register - When a famous piece of art goes missing, the Art Loss Register normally gets the first call. A conversation with this organization that combines the expertise and attention to detail of the insurance, art and law enforcement industries.
• Human Computers Tuesday July 19, 2005 - But not long ago, a "computer" was a person who did scientific calculations by hand. Tech Tuesday looks at an unknown slice of history, and explores the stories of people who performed the computational labor that made technological achievements possible. David Alan Grier, mathematician, and Professor at Eliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University; and author of "When Computers Were Human"
• Is Bill Cosby Right - Michael Eric Dyson, author, Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Bill Cosby ignited a firestorm last year when he turned a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of 'Brown v. Board of Education' into a sharply critical lamentation of the parenting skills and values of some in the African American community.
• Underwriters Laboratories Monday June 13, 2005 - For more than 100 years, Americans have relied on Underwriters Laboratories to safety test products that are used daily in their homes and offices. Hear about the history of this unique nonprofit, and how its effected changes in the development of everything from hair dryers to bullet proof glass.