Master gardener Michael Pollan talks about his youthful experiment with growing marijuana and explains how the war on drugs spurred growers into developing a stronger, hardier plant.
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Randall Kennedy tells Steve Paulson about some notorious cases where racially mixed children were left in impossible situations by state miscegenation laws.
Michael Lewis joins us to talk about his riveting new account of how high-frequency trading is destroying Wall Street. His new book is "Flash Boys."
Milwaukee computer programmer Mohan Embar describes competing for -- and winning -- the 2012 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence. His chat bot, Chip Vivant, was the most "human computer" of the year. But it still couldn't pass the Turing Test.
Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio been interviewing disgraced exiled dictators for years. He put them together in a book called “Talk of the Devil.”
Joel Hirschorn thinks urban sprawl is a terrible idea and tells Steve Paulson all the reasons why.
Kate Sekules tells Anne Strainchamps how she got into boxing, why she enjoyed getting really strong, and how she coped with her anger during bouts.
Mawi Asgedom fled the civil war in Ethiopia and spent part of his childhood in a refugee camp in Sudan, but ended up giving the commencement address at his Harvard graduation.
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