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Margaret Weis on "Mistress of Dragons"

Margaret Weis tells Steve Paulson all about dragons, and about the dragon world she created for her books.

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Michael Gershon on "The Second Brain"

Michael Gershon talks about the science behind “gut instinct” and says most of the body’s serotonin is in the gut, not the brain.

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Questionable Practices - Eileen Gunn

Eileen Gunn talks about her short-story collection, "Questionable Practices."

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Mark Salzman on "Lying Awake"

In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.

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Lone Frank on the Neuroscience of Advertising

Coke consistently outsells Pepsi, though Pepsi routinely wins blind taste tests. Why is one of the mysteries of advertising.

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Jim Fleming reads Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"

Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."

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Lawrence Lessig on The Hybrid Economy

Lawrence Lessig is the creator of the Creative Commons and says that our current copyright law is far too restrictive and stifles creativity.

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Rebecca Walker on Growing Up with Alice Walker

Black, white and Jewish: Rebecca Walker talks with Steve Paulson about her unconventional upbringing and how having a child of her own changed her feelings about it.

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