Svetlana Boym tells Anne Strainchamps that nostalgia was invented in the 17th century and seen as an actual physical condition for the next century of so.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Theresa Maggio tells Steve Paulson about the Mattanza - the ritual capture and killing of these beautiful, massive fish that occurs every spring.
Sounds from the Dane County Farmer’s Market, right here in Madison, Wisconsin. Our farmer’s market is the largest in the country.
Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society and later a State Assemblyman and Senator in California, talks with Steve Paulson.
Anne Strainchamps talks with biologist Tyler Volk and science writer Dorion Sagan, co-authors of "Sex and Death" or "Death and Sex" if you flip the book upside down.
Journalist Ross Gelbspan tells Steve Paulson that the reality of global warming is widely accepted by the international scientific community and cites examples of the effects already being felt.
In 2003, Craig Mullaney led an infantry rifle platoon along the hostile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He recounts the experience in his memoir, "The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education."
Roger Ebert won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and is probably the most famous movie critic in America. He talks with Steve Paulson about the movie genre known as film noir.
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