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Maybe one way to get people thinking more pro-actively - and more hopefully- about climate change, is to make it fun. Here’s the story of “FutureCoast,” a game about climate change.

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Stephen Kinzer tells Steve Paulson that Turkey is the only Muslim democracy and that the Army is honorable and committed to the ideals of the West.

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Tad Williams is the author of several best-selling fantasy novels.  He talks with Jim Fleming about the fantasy genre and how readers can use it to explore ideas about the real world.

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Tom Wolfe reads the opening to "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and explains why it's his favorite.

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Rudolph Bell tells Jim Fleming that Italian parents of 500 years ago had some very modern ideas about child rearing.  And a few wacky ones about pre-determining the sex of your baby.

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There's money to be made in the future. It's Liz Crawford's job to help big corporations figure out how to prepare for possible futures.

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Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung takes us inside the "connectome":  the audacious project to create a detailed map of the human brain. 

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

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Television is rife with shows about female spies, whether it's Nikita, Covert Affairs, the Americans, or Homeland. It really seems like spy girls are having a moment on TV, but how true to life are these popular depictions? We turned to former CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson to find out.

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