Neurologist Dave Soldier collaborated with scientist Richard Lair to teach elephants to play music. They’ve released the results of the Thai Elephant Orchestra.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Fred Burton says we're right to fear the insidious threat of terrorism. Burton was one of the first three agents to serve in the U.S. government's elite Counter-Terrorism Division and is the author of "Ghost: Confessions of a Counter-terrorism Agent."
Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.
Photographer Sarah Sudhoff has been intrigued by mortality for almost as long as she can remember. She's made art out of out of disease, hospitals, funeral homes. In her series, At The Hour of Our Death, she's taking an close look at death.
David Hughes is the author of “The Complete Lynch,” a comprehensive study of film-maker David Lynch’s work. Hughes talks about meeting Lynch in Prague, and they talk about Lynch’s use of sound.
TTBOOK producer Doug Gordon attempts to interview Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland of the Halifax Indie band Sloan.
Belquis Ahmadi is Afghan, Sameena Nazir is Pakistani. They tell Steve Paulson why Afghans welcomed the Taliban at first, what happened when they revealed their hidden agenda of oppressing women and controlling education.
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.
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