Amir Aczel tells Jim Fleming that your odds on a coin toss are always 50/50, no matter how many times you do it.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Karyn Bosnak is the author of “Save Karyn: One Shopaholic’s Journey to Debt and Back.” Bosnak tells Anne Strainchamps how she got herself into thousands of dollars of credit card debt, and how she got out.
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action.
Annie Murphy Paul talks with Jim Fleming about her research into the field of fetal development. As if pregnancy wasn’t scary enough!
Frances Moore Lappé has working toward sustainability and biodiversity for more than 40 years. But one day, in the middle of a conference about climate change, she started to wonder if people were telling the story all wrong.
You can also listen to our interview with Wangari Maathai about reforesting Africa.
Journalist Adam Hochschild says the anti-slavery movement in Britain 200 years ago invented many of the political tools and tactics today's protesters still use.
Alexander Stille tells Steve Paulson how poetry became a political weapon in Somalia’s revolution.
Ana Castillo talks with Jim Fleming about her own Mexican-American heritage and how she uses it in her novel about a flamenco dancer with polio.
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