Charles Bukowski reads his poem, "The Poetry Reading." Then, Kristen Asbjornsen speaks with Jim Fleming from her home in Norway and explains how she set Bukowski's poems to music. And we hear the results.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
Jason Cohen (with Steve Okazaki) made the wrenching documentary “Black Tar Heroin.” The film follows the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco.
Noam Chomsky may be America's most prominent radical intellectual. An outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, he says the mainstream media simply won't acknowledge his political perspective.
Lee Smolin tells Steve Paulson about the debate in the blogosphere about string theory's failure to advance the field of physics beyond the accepted model.
Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule. It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.
Here's our final poem to share for this National Poetry Month, Jim reading Max Garland's "A Lesson in Love."
How close are we to electing a woman as president? Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close."
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