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Making Democracy Fun

Correction: This interview refers to a survey finding that only 22% of Americans trust government at all levels. The actual survey was limited to trust in the federal government, and found that 22% of Americans trusted the government in Washington "almost always or most of the time".

We all know it's important to be involved in local government, but can political participation also be fun? Josh Lerner thinks so. He believes local governments could boost the fun factor in the political process by borrowing a few ideas from game design.

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Kelly Lambert on the Healing Power of Craft

Kelly Lambert tells Anne Strainchamps about her brain research into how using both hands on crafts projects can be as beneficial to the body as taking psychoactive medication.

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Linda Kauffman on Sensational Art

Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art.  She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.

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Mario Vargas Llosa on the dictator Trujillo

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010.  He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru.  Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.

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New Environmental Paradigm - Bill McKibben

Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm:  small and local.

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Love 2.0

So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.

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Patricia Smith on "Blood Dazzler"

Patricia Smith is an African American who's the four-time champion of the National Poetry Slam.

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Jason Zinoman on "Shock Value"

Jason Zinoman talks to Jim Fleming about his book, "Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror."

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