Last summer's sleeper hit was a book by David Wroblewski called "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle." Wroblewski reads from his novel and talks with Jim Fleming about his life in Wisconsin as the child of a family who raised dogs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Harvey Kaye's Dangerous Idea? Re-discovering the true meaning of American Exceptionalism.
Physicist Leonard Mlodinow and spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra debate their conflicting worldviews on science and the origins of consciousness.
NPR's Eric Nuzum reveals his lifelong fear of ghosts in a haunting new memoir, “Giving Up The Ghost” – the story of his troubled teenage years, suicidal fantasies and conviction that he was being stalked by the ghost of a little girl. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about depression, friendship, and what it means to be haunted.
Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist with a twist; he's also a musician and record producer. He says brain imaging is showing how our brains listen to and make music.
Agriculture already shapes the globe. With food insecurity growing around the globe, the unpredictabilities of climate change and population growth booming... what will we eat in the future?
Jonathan Foley heads the Global Landscape Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.
Azar Nafisi tells Steve Paulson about her weekly secret meetings with students to read forbidden Western literature.
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