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All the "Ithaca" News That Isn't - June 16, 2012

Michael offers up All the "Ithaca" News That Isn't

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Andrew Carroll on "War Letters"

Andrew Carroll talks with Anne Strainchamps about what letters from various wars have in common, and reads excerpts from Civil War and WWII letters.

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A.J. Jacobs on "The Year of Living Biblically"

A.J. Jacobs tried to live Biblically for a year.  He tells Jim Fleming he started by growing a beard, buying a stack of Bibles and before he knew it, he was confronting adulterers in the Park.

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Alan Weisman on "The World Without Us"

What would happen to our planet if all the human beings simply disappeared with all our junk? Basically, nature would waste no time taking over.

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3 Minute Futures Winner: "Social Scene Alert"

The winner of our 3 Minute Futures flash fiction contest:  "Social Scene Alert" by J.M. Perkins, from San Diego.

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Anne Whiston Spirn on Frederick Law Olmsted

Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.

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Amy Stewart on Poisonous Plants

Quick lesson in plants: Don't eat it unless you're sure you know what it is.

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Alfred McCoy on "The Politics of Heroin"

Alfred McCoy explains to Jim Fleming how the CIA made deals with warlords in Asia to help drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan during the Cold War.

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