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Nancy Cartwright on Playing Bart Simpson

Many people don't know that the voice of Bart Simpson is really Nancy Cartwright.  She started doing voices in her early teens, and credits Daws Butler with teaching her to be an actor with her voice.

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Reshaping Gender? - Judith Butler

So, what is gender anyhow? Philosopher Judith Butler has been unpacking our notions of "he," "she" and "we" for the past 20 years. She stopped in to help us take stock of the state of gender in the North America.

Hear the extended interview, here.

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Janet Davis on Animals in the Circus

Janet Davis tells Steve Paulson that controversy has surrounded the use of animals in the American circus since the 1890s.

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Pete Daly on Melanoma

Pete Daly is a melanoma patient who talks about living with cancer.

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Laugh More - Katie West

So maybe you're not going to be the next Richard Pryor. 

Even if you don't get many more laughs, you can laugh more. Katie West tells us how.

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Nicholas Harberd on The Secret Life of Plants

Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that  he found growing in a country churchyard.

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Jem Rolls on Spoken Word

Jem Rolls runs poetry cabarets and poetry slams in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Pierre Laszlo on the Chemistry of Salt

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.

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