Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Pulitzer prize-winning journalist - and undocumented immigrant -- Jose Antonio Vargas is in our Crossroads show this week. Want to hear the EXTENDED interview with him? Here it is...
Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
Michael Kimmelman talks with Steve Paulson about making your life a work of art.
Is there a science of rap? Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.
When independent radio producer Karen Michel moved from her apartment in Brooklyn out to the country – near the Hudson River - she wanted to know what her new neighbors really cared about. What, for them, it truly meant to live in a democracy where freedom is taken for granted.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
More stories from you -- about precious bits of handwriting you've saved over the years.
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