The Kitchen Sisters (public radio producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) talk with Anne Strainchamps and give her samples of the 2007 season of Hidden Kitchens.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
DBC Pierre won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel, “Vernon God Little.” Pierre reads from the book and talks about it and about his own tangled past.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Christa Parravani talks about her book, "Her," a memoir about the special bond she shares with her identical twin sister.
What if you could take a pill or download netware to supercharge your brain? Physicist Michio Kaku says augmented intelligence and memory playback systems are the future of brain science.
Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.” Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor
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