Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live. He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Paul Miller is the unofficial spokesman for remix culture in his persona as DJ Spooky.
Martyn Stewart is one of audio engineers who went to Alaska in 2006 as part of the Arctic Soundscape Project to record the sounds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Developmental psychologist Peter Gray says play helps children make sense of the world, and teaches them the social and emotional skills they'll need as a adults. He's the author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Studsents for Life.
Healing democracy, one living room at a time. Joan Blades and Parker Palmer introduce us to a grassroots movement that brings small groups of people together across bitter political divisions, to help them find common ground.
Merge is a quartet that combines poetry with jazz music. Cassandra Cleghorn and Erik Lawrence talk with Jim Fleming about their art and how much they have in common with the Beats.
K.C. Cole is working on a book about her friend Frank Oppenheimer. Frank was barred from practicing physics during the McCarthy era, and was deeply troubled by the devastation of the bomb.
So romance is about sex, right? By definition?
Not so, says David Jay. He founded the Asexual Visibility & Education Network.
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