French chemist Pierre Laszlo tells Steve Paulson that our bodies need salt to prevent dehydration and that removing the salt from seawater isn’t that hard, but it’s very expensive.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann's Dangerous Idea? To be better adjusted, change the way you think about thinking.
A ghost story from listener Jonathan Blyth, called "You Are What You Eat."
Richard Ranft has collected underwater sounds of mating haddock, snapping shrimp, walruses and other sea creatures.
Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
Can you learn to be more creative? You can if you go to Lynda Barry's workshop on "writing the unthinkable." In this EXTENDED interview, she tells Anne Strainchamps how to unleash our hidden muse.
Jeff Bursey is a Canadian author and reviewer whose new book is called "Verbatim: A Novel."
Michael Reilly recorded an extraordinary CD called "Como Now: The Voices of Panola County, Mississippi."
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