Jazz musician Ben Sidran talks with Jim Fleming about the tremendous influence Jewish immigrant composers and songwriters had on American popular music.
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It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like? Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.
Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.
Erik Prince defends Edward Snowden. He says the US should drastically cut military spending. He believes the US War of Terror has gone too far. His biggest regret in life? Working for the State Department. And that's just the tip of the iceberg from this uncut Steve Paulson interview with the founder of Blackwater - a group many say was the leading mercenary organization in the world.
Psychologist Dean Simonton tells Jim Fleming why startling discoveries are often made by young scientists. He says you can jump start your creativity by changing careers.
Christie Watson's latest novel, "Where Women Are Kings," tells the story of a couple who adopt a seven-year old Nigerian boy named Elijah. The young child has a history of child abuse and violent behavior, and also believes he's possessed by a wizard.
Diederick Van Eck talks about Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as his inspiration for his album "Van Gogh by Van Eck".
Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
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