Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bennett Alan Weinberg talks with Anne Strainchamps about how little we actually know about the vegetable alkaloid we know as caffeine.
Catherine Austin Fitts was the Federal Housing Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of Housing under the first Bush administration. She managed a Wall Street investment firm and is now president of Solari, Inc.
Why do we sleep? No-one really knows, but neuro-scientist Bob Stickgold tells Jim Fleming about his ideas concerning sleep and why it’s important.
Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talks about her traditional Indian childhood and the Bengali dream-tellers she met while researching "Queen of Dreams."
Nature writer David Quammen has written a book called “Monster of God.” It’s about man-eating predators. Quammen says that such beasts have often been worshiped but the habitats are being encroached on by development.
Cynthia True is the author of “American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story.” She tells Jim Fleming that Hicks was an important social satirist, remarkable for his bravery and honesty. He battled TV executives over his belief that audiences could handle provocative ideas.
Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
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