MD and best-selling novelist Michael Crichton talks with Jim Fleming about the ethical problems he envisions with permitting patents on human DNA.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jeff Price founded TuneCore, where artists pay a one time flat fee to use his service and then all sales revenue belongs to them and they retain all rights to their music.
We share the mysterious story of the listener who sent us postcards in response to our show about handwriting.
Charles Yu on quantum parenting, time travel and other science fictional paradoxes. Yu is the author of the acclaimed novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
Politicians love to stump about the middle class and the American Dream. But the struggle to make a decent living in the United States isn’t just politics… it’s personal. Here’s a story from Arturo Camelot, a student at Tucson’s City High School.
Richard Dawkins, a prominent biologist and outspoken atheist, talks with Steve Paulson. Dawkins is the author of "The God Delusion" and a frequent foil for the intelligent design movement.
Madelon Sprengnether tells Jim Fleming that going to the movies became a form of therapy for her and helped her sort out her own life experiences.
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