Grant McCracken talks about his book, "Culturematic." McCracken says that "Culturematics" draw from culture to create culture."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Helen Benedict talks with Anne Strainchamps about the sexual harassment and sexual abuse endured by female soldiers in Iraq which often begins before they leave the United States.
Gayle F. Wald is the author of "Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
Kirk Lynn's debut novel "Rules for Werewolves" is the story of a group of young, homeless, angry kids running from their families and roaming the suburbs of Los Angeles like a pack of wolves. He says the story was partially inspired by his own experience breaking into homes during his wild teenage years.
How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
U.S. Marine Corps Colonel George Fenton tells Anne Strainchamps about the military’s newest “non-lethal” weapon - active denial technology.
Gore Vidal talks about why he greatly admires the founding fathers and why we don’t have politicians like them today.
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