Researchers opened the chimpanzee genome in 2005, raising a number of fascinating questions. Chief among them: if we share most of our DNA with chimpanzees, what is it that makes us different?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maggie Nelson recommends "Close to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz.
Hisham Aidi—an expert on globalization and social movements—discusses the role of hip hop in the French-Muslim community and the recent debates about the genre.
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.
Lincoln Hall is an Australian mountain climber. He tells Jim Fleming about his fatal adventure on Mt. Everest, the subject of his book "Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest."
Anthropoligst Anne Allison talks about our love affair with Japanese pop culture.
Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author of "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend." But he tells Steve Paulson he doesn't really think the creature exists.
Novelist Marilynne Robinson talks with Anne Strainchamps about the role of the soul in the age of modern science.
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