Robert Bruggeman has a positive outlook on sprawl. He says societies have always grown and ours looks the way it does because suburbs represent the way Americans like to live.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.
John Hasse gives Jim Fleming several examples of patriotic music and talks about the various ways they’ve been used. They explore some suggested alternatives to the national anthem.
The 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide is in our minds these days. But instead of looking back, we look forward with Josh Ruxin. He talks to Anne about the role he's played in Rwanda's recovery.
Mike Hoyt talks with Steve Paulson about an e-mail by a Wall Street Journal correspondent that created a furor within the journalistic community about the role and responsibility of embedded reporters.
Does science have inherent limits? Physicist Marcelo Gleiser thinks so, and he says it's liberating to know that science can only give us an incomplete picture of reality.
In this final segment, we take a left turn to punk.
Richard Hell co-founded the band Television in the mid-70s. He also created a look and sound that would eventually be called “punk.”
Louann Brizendine tells Jim Fleming that male brains are fueled by testosterone and female brains are fueled by estrogen and that they are chemically and physically different from each other.
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