A rant/sermon from Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld tells Jim Fleming he's never had a conversation with his brother.
Lynn Peril is the author of “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.” She tells Steve Paulson that an idealized feminine identity was marketed to women to get them to buy all sorts of things, from beauty products to toys.
Michael Shermer explains why he and like-minded scientific people don’t think much of Mark Vicente's film, “What the Bleep Do We Know”.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
Paco Underhill tells Jim Fleming what malls do to get you to buy things.
Is mathematics what's most real in the universe? MIT physicist Max Tegmark thinks so, and he says it's likely we live in one of many parallel universes.
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