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Maurice Sendak has written and narrates a story called "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale."  It's based on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".

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Poderopedia's goal is to make those connections more transparent.  It’s a crowd-sourced map of business and political power in Chile.

 

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO IN ENGLISH EXPLAINING PODEROPEDIA.

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Is there a science of rap?  Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.

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Justine Picardie is a writer for British Vogue and a former editor at London’s Observer. She talks about her efforts to contact her sister Ruth’s spirit in the year after Ruth’s death from breast cancer.

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Jared Diamond has written “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.”  He discusses a few case histories - like Easter Island - with Steve Paulson.

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Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of “The Tipping Point.”  He talks about how successful marketing works and gives some examples.

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

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Philipp Blom tells Anne Strainchamps about some of history's great pack-rats, and what purposes their collections served.

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