Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Eric Idle is a former member of the Monty Python comedy group and is now touring solo across America. When his tour stopped in Madison, he talked about death and comedy with Doug Gordon.
Sociologist Doug Maynard talks with Anne Strainchamps about the different styles of sharing bad news and how sometimes the speaker’s style can undermine the content of the message.
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
LaNiyah Bailey didn't like being bullied in school. When she was 6 years old she decided to do something about it. She wrote a book.
In this UNCUT interview, Nobel laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks with Steve Paulson about his latest book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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