For weeks, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors occupied the State Capitol of Wisconsin. They ate there. They slept there. And they wrote there. Among them was sleep-in activist and blogger, Christie Taylor.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jessica Disu (FM Supreme) talks about using hiphop as a positive force to deliver messages of peace and non-violence.
Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”
We tend not to talk about death much in North America. Maybe we just don’t have the words to contain something so visceral. Maybe images are a better way to explore or express our mortality, and our feelings about it.
In a recent body of work, photographer Sarah Sudhoff helps us take a close look at death. In the NEW and EXTENDED interview, Anne Strainchamps talks with Sarah Sudhoff about ‘At the Hour of Our Death’.
Benjamin Skinner tells the story of how he infiltrated slave markets on five continents from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti and says that in Manhattan, you're five hours away from negotiating the sale of another human being in broad daylight.
Bob Spitz writes about the Beatles time in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his book "The Beatles: The Biography."
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.
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