Bill Malone is the country’s foremost historian of country music. His new book is called “Don’t Get above Your Raisin’.” He talks about why he loves old-time country music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chuck Klosterman tells Steve Paulson why Phoenix Suns basketball player Steve Nash is associated with Marxism, and how he picks subjects to write about.
Douglas Coupland says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to “get” irony and the rest take everything at face value.
James Dawes interviewed a collection of convicted war criminals from the Second Sino-Japanese War. Today, they are "sweet old men" searching for forgiveness. Do they deserve it?
Dan Shapiro tells the story of his long fight with Hodgkin’s Disease which prompted his mother to cultivate marijuana to help him cope with the nausea of chemotherapy.
Charles Limb is a surgeon and musician who researches the way creativity works in the brain. He puts jazz musicians inside an fMRI to find out what the brain does during musical improvisation.
Watch Charles Limb's TED Talk here
In traditional cultures, magic can be a way of seeing the world. Philosopher and ecologist David Abram has spent a lot of time with traditional shamans. He talks about reclaiming animism.
Frank Drake says SETI gets lots of false alarms and they’re all caused by signals that originate on earth, and that the situation will only get worse. But he’s still optimistic.
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