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Buffy Sainte-Marie on Her New Album, "Power in the Blood"

74 year-old Cree musician Buffy Sainte-Marie has done a lot since she was 24. She got her Ph.D. She got politically active in the American Indian Movement and the anti-GMO movement. She raised a family. She was even on Sesame Street for five seasons—and was the first woman to breast feed on American television.

But most of us know Buffy Sainte-Marie as an iconic 60s folk singer with such hits as "Universal Soldier" and "It's My Way." And now, some 50 years after her debut album, Buffy has a new one. It’s called “Power in the Blood.” This new CD proves that this Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe award-winning woman's career is not over yet.

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Elizabeth Little on "Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic"

Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor who collects languages. She tells Jim Fleming about the perils of learning tonal languages.

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Arika Okrent on "In the Land of Invented Languages"

Arika Okrent is a linguist and the author of "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Logian Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language."

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Daniel Kahneman on "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

Nobel Laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks to Steve Paulson about the two basic systems that drive the way we think.  Kahneman is the author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow.'

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Betsy Israel on the History of Single Women

Betsy Israel tells Jim Fleming our society has always been suspicious of unmarried women and talks about examples from Louisa Mat Alcott to Ally McBeal.

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Eugene Mirman on being a High School Nerd

Eugene Mirman is an indie comic and the author of an outlandish self-help send-up called "The Will to Whatevs." He tells Jim Fleming that school was horrible for him and gave rise to his nerd humor.

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Barbara King on Being With Animals

Human and animal history is so intertwined it's hard to imagine one species without the other.

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David Rothenberg on Birdsong

Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg plays duets with birds all over the world.  He’s searching for an answer to the question “Why Birds Sing.”

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