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Buffy Sainte-Marie on Her New Album, "Power in the Blood"

74 year-old Cree musician Buffy Sainte-Marie has done a lot since she was 24. She got her Ph.D. She got politically active in the American Indian Movement and the anti-GMO movement. She raised a family. She was even on Sesame Street for five seasons—and was the first woman to breast feed on American television.

But most of us know Buffy Sainte-Marie as an iconic 60s folk singer with such hits as "Universal Soldier" and "It's My Way." And now, some 50 years after her debut album, Buffy has a new one. It’s called “Power in the Blood.” This new CD proves that this Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe award-winning woman's career is not over yet.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Nigeria

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her most noted novel is called “Half of a Yellow Sun.”

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Arika Okrent on "In the Land of Invented Languages"

Arika Okrent is a linguist and the author of "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Logian Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language."

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Ellen Handler-Spitz on "The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood"

Ellen Handler-Spitz talks with Jim Fleming about the how imagination develops in childhood.

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Barbara King on Being With Animals

Human and animal history is so intertwined it's hard to imagine one species without the other.

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Ever Wonder About the Sounds a Building Makes?

Sound engineer Ryan Schimmenti put it best, "every space has a sound, every sound tells a story." Using high-end equipment he documents and records the "voices" of buildings.

There are a lot of those sounds in this piece. But if you want more . . .

 

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Christopher Noxon on Personal Coaching

Journalist Christopher Noxon explains what happened when he formed a personal posse of life coaches in Los Angeles.

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David Maraniss on Barack Obama - UNCUT

How accurate is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father?  In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with acclaimed biographer David Maraniss about Obama’s real coming-of-age story, his struggle with racial identity and his early political ambitions.

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