Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Francis M. Nevins is an authority on suspense writer Cornell Woolrich and wrote the introduction for a new anthology called “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich.”
Don Gurnett has been working with NASA, recording audio from space for years. He plays some of his favorite space sounds for Jim Fleming and explains where they come from.
Why has America stopped inventing? Americans invent less than half of what we did a century ago. Half. Why? Are we less creative then we were 100 years ago?
David Schmader thinks "Showgirls" is the most brilliant bad movie ever made. He did a commentary for the new DVD edition and tells Steve Paulson why it's so hilarious.
Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
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