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David Sheppard on Brian Eno's "Music for Airports"
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David Graeber on "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
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James Der Derian on Academics at War
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Building a "Trendy" Time Machine
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Data Mining for True Trends?
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Elizabeth Mahon on Women Scoundrels
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Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Looking Back at Futurecasting
Looking Back at the Future
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Pain Wars
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Tom Hayden on democracy
The Late Vaclav Havel on Art and Politics
What It Is Like To Go To War
Thomas Friedman on How the US Fell Behind
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Steve Paulson on Knowledge
Rev. Ivan Stang on The Church of the SubGenius
Stephen Thompson on "The Onion" and Regionalism
Charles McNair on Literary Criticism
Anthony Shadid on War UNCUT
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William Gibson on "Distrust That Particular Flavor"
John D'Agata and Jim Fingal on "The Lifespan of a Fact"
Noam Chomsky on Speaking Out
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives
Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Change Our Lives
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Butch Vig on Music Industry Trends
Data Mining for True Trends?
Building a "Trendy" Time Machine
PHILOSOPHY
At the Hour of Our Death
Life in Death, Death in Life
William Irvine, Stoic for Life
Death, Experienced
Eben Alexander on Near Death Experience
How Dying Changes Us
Close-up Death
Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine
Robert Glasper on his album "Black Radio"
Darin Gibby on Why America has stopped inventing
Marcus Wohlsen on Biopunks
Anna Dietrich on the flying car
Tom Fate on "Cabin Fever"
Jeffrey Cramer on Historical Thoreau
"Walden" Reading
Christopher Schaberg on "The Textual Life of Airports"
Terry Tempest Williams on Thoreau
Christian Wiman on Writing Life and Death - UNCUT
Melissa Coleman on a Childhood Spent Back to the Land
Cheryl Strayed on Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
James Hessler on "Sickles at Gettysburg"
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Alan Huffman on Opposition Research
Ricardo Lagos on Chile
Taylor and Goldstein Debate Schooling
David Graeber on "Debt: The First 5,000 Years"
Noam Chomsky on Speaking Out
Christopher Hitchens on "Hitch 22"
Shepard Fairey - from Obey to Hope
Ralph Nader on Selling Out
Rep. Joe Walsh (R. IL) on Compromise
Heinz Insu Fenkl on North Korean Comics
Jacob Hacker on Income Inequality
Juliet Schor on Plenitude
Anthony Shadid - After the Violence in Iraq
Ilan Stavans on A Memoir of Language
Penny Von Eschen on the Jazz Ambassadors
Parker Palmer on the Heart of Democracy
Riccardo Orizio on Former Dictators
Tracy Gary on Philanthropy
Ralph Nader on How Billionaires Could Fix the Country
David Graeber on the "Free Gift"
Tom Hayden on democracy
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Eben Alexander on Near Death Experience
Jeffrey Cramer on Historical Thoreau
Adam Frank on spiritual atheism
Anne Rice on leaving Catholicism
Diana Butler Bass on "Christianity after Religion"
Alain de Botton on "Religion for Atheists"
Charles Taylor on the Secular
Rev. Ivan Stang on The Church of the SubGenius
Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick's "The Exegesis"
Forget Your Self
Contemplating Our Selves
Gangaji on the True Self
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Stars in Heaven?
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Zorba Paster on Buddhism and Medicine
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen on "American Nietzsche"
James Moore on Alfred Russel Wallace
Jeremy Narby on "The Cosmic Serpent"
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Sacred Pain with Ariel Glucklich
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