Dwight Reynolds talks with Steve Paulson about the history of religious tolerance in Al-Andalus and how it was reflected in the music of Moorish Spain.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Christopher Miller's debut novel "Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects" takes the form of liner notes for a box set by a fictional musician.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea? We need to reclaim time.
"The Angriest Man in the World", also known as "The Winnebago Man".
Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He’s the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decemberists.
Nature writer David Quammen has written a book called “Monster of God.” It’s about man-eating predators. Quammen says that such beasts have often been worshiped but the habitats are being encroached on by development.
“Advances in resuscitation science are beginning to challenge our understanding of what death really is,” says Sam Parnia. He's the director of cardiopulmonary resuscitation research at SUNY NY. Parnia says it's now possible to bring people back to life much longer after cardiac arrest than medicine had previously thought.
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