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If we think of cities as organisms, their DNA is the hodgepodge of rules that shape development. Urban planner Emily Talen talks about how city zoning, coding and laws got started, and how they need to be changed to help us build more livable cities.

Take a look at a visual archive of city plans.

 

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Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.

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When Nikka Costa was ten, she was a pop sensation in Europe. Later, she was Britney Spear’s opening act. But she’s left pop music behind and now she’s performing songs by some of the musicians she’s known, including Prince and Frank Sinatra.

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A variation of karaoke where you sing along with a live band.

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Carl Honore tells Jim Fleming that several countries have societies which promote a slower, more relaxed approach to life.

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Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.

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Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self.  But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.

You can also listen to the EXTENDED interview, and read the extended transcript.

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Renowned religious historian Elaine Pagels says the Book of Revelation is the Bible's most controversial book and she explains its enduring appeal.

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