The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
Sixty years after those Avant Garde composers of the 1920s, some Japanese musicians followed in their footsteps, exploring the outer reaches of sound with “noise music.”
Len Fisher talks with Anne Strainchamps about "swarm intelligence" and how it differs from "group think."
Shocking acts of violence are committed in the name of religion, but Karen Armstrong says we're too quick to blame faith for violence and intolerance around the world.
Jim Tucker is a child psychiatrist and director of the University of Virginia's project on children's memories of previous lives.
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