Oliver Sacks talks with Jim Fleming about the awesome power of music to enrich lives of patients with Parkinson’s Disease and other neurological disorders.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that Colonial American women showed their patriotism by learning how to weave. Making homespun meant they weren’t buying English cloth.
Jonathan Lethem talks about "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick," the project Dick obsessed over during the last eight years of his life as he tried to come to terms with a series of strange visionary experiences.
Steve Roggenbuck’s no traditional poet. Sure, he writes, but he’s built a following by posting videos of himself to Youtube. And his latest book is subtitled, "poems and selfies."
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 went through the roof after the latest news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications. What would defying state control look like these days? Writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow considered the question in his novel, “Little Brother.”
An alliance between Ralph Nader and Ron Paul? It may sound surprising, but they've found common ground. Nader explains how the Left and Right can come together on key issues.
Ginger Strand, the author of The Brothers Vonnegut, has a dangerous idea. She thinks liberals need to go out and buy a gun!
"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.
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