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Lone Frank on the Neuroscience of Advertising

Coke consistently outsells Pepsi, though Pepsi routinely wins blind taste tests. Why is one of the mysteries of advertising.

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Justin Taylor on "The Apocalypse Reader"

Jim Fleming talks with Justin Taylor, editor of "The Apocalypse Reader," a collection of 34 short stories about the end of the world.

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Keith Ward in Defense of the Soul

Keith Ward talks about the nature of the soul.

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Maggie Nelson on "Close to the Knives"

Maggie Nelson recommends "Close to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz.

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Marilynne Robinson on Poetry and the Soul

Novelist Marilynne Robinson talks with Anne Strainchamps about the role of the soul in the age of modern science.

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Jim Reads Garland

Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."

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Noam Chomsky on Speaking Out

Noam Chomsky may be America's most prominent radical intellectual.  An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, he says the mainstream media simply won't acknowledge his political perspective.

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On Our Minds: Hip Hop, Free Speech and Violence in France [Playlist]

Hisham Aidi—an expert on globalization and social movements—discusses the role of hip hop in the French-Muslim community and the recent debates about the genre.

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