Bob Jacobson attaches no moral value to working. He has a job, but would rather spend his time loafing, and gives some examples of his past jobs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Craig Werner, Afro-American Studies professor at the UW-Madison, tells Jim Fleming why rapper Tupac Shakur is revered today.
One of the most enduring questions about Coke is does it contain cocaine? Or did it used to? Bart Elmore has the answers.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea? Open source currency as the next money model.
One of the enduring ideas – and an everyday saying – is that it’s possible to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” Of course, it’s physically impossible, but producer Sara Nics thought there had to be a way to do it with some engineering know-how and well-built boots.
Producer Sara Nics on the story behind this show... how she's tried to come to terms with our narrative selves.
According to historian Thomas Laqueur, neither sanitation nor the soul fully explain the rang of rituals we've developed for caring for dead bodies. For him, there is a deeper anthropological truth at work: caring for the dead marks the human transition from nature into culture.
Caitlin Matthews is a Celtic scholar and storyteller. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about the various myths of a lost paradise and how we can find it within ourselves.
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