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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.
Journalist Ann Louise Bardach is the author of “Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana.”
How do we prevent baby boomers from bankrupting Social Security? Satirist Christopher Buckley has an idea - get the boomers to commit voluntary suicide...for tax incentives.
From Mandeville, LA, listener Sophia Derbes sent us this ghost story, called "The Lake."
Journalist Andrea Rock says that we still don’t know very much about what the mind’s up to when it’s dreaming although we’ve always had theories.
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.
Neil Gaiman is famous for his mythic fiction - from old gods haunting American back roads to children raised by ghosts. He talks about how our lives are shaped and scarred by childhood experiences.
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