Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words (and a few bird calls) to her work.
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku tells Steve Paulson about the theory that our universe is the echo from the Big Bang of some other universe.
Nicole Smith pilots an Army Apache AH 64 attack helicopter. She is the only African American female to do so.
Steven Pollock, a legendary figure in the psychedelic underground, was murdered in 1981. Journalist Hamilton Morris investigates this unsolved murder and uncovers the largely forgotten story of Pollock, a brilliant - if renegade - scientist.
Here's Morris' article from Harpers, "Blood Spore"
The documentary film "The Brooklyn Connection" shows how a Brooklyn immigrant raised over 30 million dollars to arm and supply the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Parker Palmer has a solution to the problems of today's politics and it’s right in the title of this book “Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit.”
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