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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Music critic Bill Friskics-Warren is the author of “I’ll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence.” He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the spiritual aide of popular music.
Daniel Alarcon is from Peru and the author of “Lost City Radio,” a fable about a nameless country broken in the aftermath of war and the woman who does a radio program for the families of the disappeared.
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.
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.
Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the queen of canopy research,” in part because of her personal philosophy to bring together two groups - the trees and the general public. She does this by collaborating with dancers, rappers, artists, and prisoners, just to name only a few. She created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers around the world to store the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.
Chuck Klosterman talks about "Through a Glass, Blindly," the essay about voyeurism in his book, "Eating the Dinosaur."
Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.
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