Jul 10, 20263 min
The Octagon Tower on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan was the city's first municipal insane asylum. Today it's a proud ruin, having survived partial demolition, fire and abandonment. And in a novel approach, the...
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ThoughtCast®
Hosted by Jenny Attiyeh · society · EN-US
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An online watering hole for ideas
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Who hosts ThoughtCast®?
ThoughtCast® is hosted by Jenny Attiyeh. The show has published 56 episodes to date.
What has ThoughtCast® covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Roosevelt Island’s Octagon Tower: A Proud Ruin" (10 July 2026, 3 minutes), "Spring Fever" (9 April 2026, 3 minutes), and "Garibaldi and Meucci: two friends, two very different lives" (5 March 2026, 4 minutes).
How often does ThoughtCast® publish?
ThoughtCast® publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 19 minutes across 56 episodes.
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Booking probability for ThoughtCast® is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. ThoughtCast® requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. ThoughtCast®'s contact route on record: public web form.
About the host
Jenny Attiyeh hosts ThoughtCast®, a society podcast with 56 episodes published.
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Spring Fever
Apr 9, 20263 minThis time of year, when the relieved earth shrugs off stale dirt and dead leaves, it pauses, recalling. Then, as it lets out a long, low breath, it slowly releases moisture, a glut of color. Everything is growing. But...
- Mar 5, 20264 min
https://youtu.be/WVlh-Ooi_u4?rel=0 A small house on Staten Island tells the tale of the friendship between Guiseppe Garibaldi, the famed Italian revolutionary, and Antonio Meucci, a candle maker who just might have...
- Dec 15, 202554 min
The Blacksmith House Poetry Series at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education has been bringing established and emerging poets to Harvard Square since its founding by Gail Mazur in 1973. The series is named after the...
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The Legendary Steinway Hall in Midtown Manhattan
Nov 23, 2025—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYg2AE4zcs This archival WNYC TV “Cultural Minute” takes a tour of the Steinway Store in Midtown Manhattan — which, unlike so many traditional city landmarks, is still...
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- Aug 9, 20254 min
Note: This interview has been picked up by the public radio stations WGBH , in Boston, its affiliates WCAI and WNAN, and WCVE in Richmond, VA. It was originally broadcast in 2008. In some ways, the Scottish historian...
- May 9, 202542 min
The Blacksmith House Poetry Series at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education has been bringing established and emerging poets to Harvard Square since its founding by Gail Mazur in 1973. The series is named after the...
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The Restoration of the Neptune Fountain
Feb 9, 20252 minhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21byLfOrwpk?rel=0 At the Modern Art Foundry in Astoria Queens, workers restore the Neptune Fountain, which was missing its hands, an arm and a foot. The statue, which spouted water in...
- Feb 2, 202530 min
Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN, and also on KUT, in Austin, Texas! Tom Perrotta , author of the novels Mrs. Fletcher , Little Children , Election, The Abstinence Teacher and The...
- Dec 4, 202454 min
The Blacksmith House Poetry Series at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education has been bringing established and emerging poets to Harvard Square since its founding by Gail Mazur in 1973. The series is named after the...
- Nov 10, 202442 min
Note: Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, who writes the New York Times column, “The Ethicist”, has just won (in the summer of 2024) the Library of Congress’ Kluge Prize. A high honor. This program was...
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Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
Sep 4, 202418 minSadly, Helen Vendler has just died on April 23, 2024, at ninety years of age. I’m so glad I got a chance to meet her. Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN , Prairie Public Radio...
- Aug 9, 202418 min
Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin, Texas. In 1861 in Clonmany, on the Inishowen peninsula in the far north of County Donegal Ireland, Charles McGlinchy was born. His was a...
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Behind the Scenes at Law and Order
May 20, 20243 minhttps://youtu.be/QhGC2VP0ZHg?rel=0 Watch the shooting of the Law and Order episode “Blood Libel” from its 6th season. The famous show featured Sam Waterston as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy, Jerry...
- Oct 30, 202324 min
Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin,Texas. James Joyce was born and raised in Dublin, and it was from Dublin that he fled as a young man, to Trieste, in order to write Ulysses...
- Oct 10, 202311 min
Sadly, since this interview was recorded, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has died at the age of 84 . Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin, Texas. Kate Rosenberger...
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The history and future of the New England Forest
Jul 19, 202310 minNote : an audio version of this interview was broadcast by the WGBH affiliate WCAI , the Cape and Islands NPR station , and by KPIP in Missouri. The forests of New England are, remarkably, a success story. They’ve...
- Apr 16, 202330 min
Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH ‘s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007, and picked up by KPVL, a Pacifica station, on July 2, 2013! Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask...
- Jan 7, 20233 min
I reported this story on the struggle to cover international news in the late 1990s for Freedom Speaks , a TV program on the media run by the Freedom Forum , and I thought with a ground war now raging in Europe and...
- Jul 21, 20227 min
NOTE: Caroline Elkins is in the news again, with a new book called Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire . In it she continues her searing research into first world abuse and torture of numberless Africans...
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