If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Monkees, the pop group with a hit TV show. Michael Nesmith wore the green stocking cap. Since then, he’s reinvented his career several times over. He (sort of) invented country rock. And the music video.
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Carole Angier is the author of “”The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography.” Levi was a brilliant chemist who mined the world of chemistry for metaphors to help him process his experiences as a Holocaust survivor
Clay Shirky is an internet expert and author of "Here Comes Everybody." He tells Steve Paulson how wide acceptance of social networking sites has dramatically changed our expectations of the media and even the role of journalism.
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
“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.
Charlotte Hays is co-author of "Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral."
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley take on the mainstream media and the political establishment.
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