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So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?

But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?

To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.

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"Religion always starts with mysticism," says David Steindl-Rast. Now 89, he's been a Benedictine monk since 1953. Brother David was one of the first Roman Catholics to engage in dialogues between Christians and Buddhists. He tells Steve Paulson about the joys of life in the monastery.

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The asexual movement calls into question everything you thought you knew about love and romance.  We talk with David Jay, founder of AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.

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A cancer patient took some psilocybin to help with the fear and panic about dying. A single dose created a life-changing experience in her final months.

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A few weeks after Dan's funeral, his wife Judy talks about how she's dealing with his absence, and how she wants to remember him.

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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.

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Diamanda Galas is a classically trained pianist, with a vocal range of three and a half octaves whose music is dark and intense.

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Is there anything science won't tackle? The lastest question, "What is beauty?" We talk with two neuroscientists and an art historian about the new field of neuroaesthetics.

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