The massive protests in Ferguson, Missouri are on our minds this week. We explore the racial conflict and police violence with sociologist Alice Goffman.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham says the big question is WHEN did we become human? He tells Steve Paulson it's clearly when we started cooking.
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
Robert Price thinks people would be better off if they stuck to mainstream religion rather than what he considers the "dumbed down" versions.
As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry?
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