John Wesley Harding is a singer/songwriter who regularly draws on his love of literature. So now, he’s turning his song “Miss Fortune” into a novel.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and teaches at Princeton. His latest book is "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008."
A portrait of Kathputli, India's last remaining magician's colony.
Josh Ritter is a folk-rocker who's being called the heir apparent to Dylan and Springsteen. He joins Steve Paulson in the TTBOOK studios in Madison, Wisconsin to perform a few songs and to talk about his music.
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner- a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew- tell Jim Fleming how they came together after 9-11 with the goal of writing a children's book and shared their experiences and religious perspectives.
A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.
Philosopher Alva Noe has a theory about art. He says art is like philosophy, and the best art is disorienting and uncomfortable. It takes you into a space you didn't even know was there.
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness. He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners, and he's developing a new scientific model for studying emotion. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about how his scientific work ended up changing his own life.
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