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Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:00:29 -0400

Averroes was a 12th century Islamic scholar who devoted his life to defending philosophy against the precepts of faith and in writing a commentary on Aristotle so influential that St Thomas Aquinas referred to him simply as 'The Commentator'. But why did an Islamic philosopher achieve such esteem in the mind of a Christian Saint, how did Averroes seek to reconcile Greek philosophy with Islamic theology and can he really be said to have sown the seeds of the Renaissance in Europe?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: The Diet of Worms: 12 Oct 06

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:58:44 -0400

In 1521 Martin Luther came to the town of Worms, in Germany, to explain his attacks on the Catholic Church to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, and the gathered dignitaries of the German lands. What happened at that meeting, called the Diet of Worms, tore countries apart, set nation against nation, felled kings and plunged dynasties into suicidal bouts of infighting. But why did Martin Luther risk execution to go to the Diet, what was at stake for the big players of medieval Europe and how did events at the Diet of Worms irrevocably change the history of Europe?

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: In Our Time: Alexander Von Humboldt: 29 Sept 06

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:43:25 -0400

Darwin described him as 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'. Goethe declared that one learned more from an hour in his company than eight days of studying books and even Napoleon was reputed to be envious of his celebrity. They were talking about the Prussian scientist and explorer Alexander Von Humboldt. If you haven't heard of him you're not alone and yet, at the time of his death in 1859, the year Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Humboldt was probably the most famous scientist in Europe. Add to this shipwrecks, homosexuality and Spanish American revolutionary politics and you have the ingredients for one of the more extraordinary lives lived in Europe (and elsewhere) in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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cpn@gildedfork.com (Foodcasters) — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:41:51 -0400

Food Philosophy #25: A Pumpkin We Will Go

(What on earth happened to Jennifer? Only she and her coffee pot know the intimate details, but there is a Golden Ticket involved.)

Take a trip with me to upstate New York as I search for the elusive perfect pumpkin, because there are recipes that simply must be cooked this week. The kitchen elves make their first appearance on the show, but alas they are wreaking havoc (as usual).

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Music: Beau Hall (www.beaurocks.com).

Food Philosophy is a production of The Gilded Fork (www.gildedfork.com).

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digg.com: Stories / Popular: Digg : Digg : Digg : Chavez Reinvents 'Socialism' in Venezuela

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:13:16 -0400

"Venezuela's iconoclastic leader is fond of saying he's inventing a new sort of economy that won't just forever alter Venezuelan society but will also serve as an egalitarian model for the entire world."

Wired Top Stories: Wired Top Stories: Wired Top Stories: Wired Top Stories: Politics Get Caught in the Web

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:04:04 -0400

The internet gives political campaigns more opportunities to dig up dirt on their opponents, but with the information comes new ethical and legal concerns. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.

Open Source: Open Source: Open Source: Open Source: The Death of Anna Politkovskaya

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:03:44 -0400

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A memorial service for Politkovskaya in Finland [uninen / Flickr]

What did she know about Putin's Russia that we don't? Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow this week, shot on the street. A journalist, she spent the last seven years as a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, covering Chechnya and the oligarchs and the list of official sins that continues to grow in Putin's Russia. She titled collections of her columns Putin's Russia, A Dirty War and A Small Corner of Hell; it's not hard to figure out why she made a lot of people uncomfortable. She had a lot of enemies, they all had motives, and the threat isn't limited to her. Russian journalist Masha Gessen revealed on the phone this afternoon that, given the choice between a lighthearted piece for a Russian paper on the economy or a more sober look at Putin for an American paper, she'd take the economy. Safer that way. Several guests we spoke to this afternoon described Politkovskaya as "passionate"; she opened her 2004 book Putin's Russia with the words "These are my emotional reactions, jotted down in the margins of life as it is lived in Russia today." She established her own credibility; she was asked to help negotiate the hostage crisis in Beslan and then -- she believed -- poisoned on the plane on the way down. After the crisis, when it became illegal to sell a newspaper within a hundred meters of a subway entrance or bus stop, she was one of the few fearless journalists left; The Economist described her in an obit on Sunday as brave beyond belief. And now she's gone. What does this say about Putin's Russia? Was an oligarch -- or a Chechen, or police sergeant exposed for corruption -- angry at what she'd done to his image, or did the Kremlin send a signal? And as we focus our attention on the Middle East, Russia threatens European natural gas supplies and rounds up Georgians as "criminals" for export back to Georgia. Are we completely missing a serious and not-so-new problem?

Masha Gessen

Deputy Editor, Bolshoy Gorod

Raffi Aftandelian

Blogger, Maaskva: Nashimi Glazami Management consultant working in Russia

Vilhelm Konnander

President and Russia expert, Swedish Society for the Study of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia Blogger, Vilhelm Konnander's Blog

Edward Lucas

Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent, The Economist Blogger, Edward Lucas

Extra Credit Reading: Veronica Khokhlova, Anna Politkovskaya's Murder, Global Voices Online, 10/8/06 Veronica Khokhlova, Monday, October 9, 2006, Neeka's Backlog, 10/9/06 Anne Applebaum, A Moscow Murder Story, The Washington Post, 10/9/06 Garry Kasparov, What's Bad for Putin Is Best for Russian, The New York Times, 7/10/06 Vilhelm Konnander, Death & the Kremlin, Vilhelm Konnader's Blog, 10/8/06 W. Shedd, Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya Murdered on the Streets of Moscow, 10/7/06