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Air Dates:
- June 30, 2018
What if the guiding principle we used in cooking, eating and growing food was love? From an Iranian-American kitchen to the chocolate forests of Ecuador, we explore new ways to express deep flavors and personal identity through food and cooking.Read more
Air Dates:
- June 23, 2018
It creeps into everything: guilt that we're not good enough, fit enough, smart enough. As we peruse Instagram, all we see is the perfection of others reflecting our own failures back at us. Why do we spend so much time feeling guilty? Should we?Read more
Air Dates:
- June 23, 2018
- May 14, 2017
- February 14, 2016
You score a royal flush in poker! Do you credit your skill? Or luck? We talk with a poker champion, a game designer, an investment banker and a choreographer about how to untangle skill from luck.Read more
Air Dates:
- June 16, 2018
- November 11, 2017
There's a new kind of music packing nightclubs with young fans. It's jazz - but not the sound of your grandparents' supper club. Infused with hip hop and other popular musical forms, jazz is being remade.Read more
Air Dates:
- June 16, 2018
- November 04, 2017
We live, work and play in Red and Blue tribal bubbles, filling our social media feeds with news sources that affirm our place in that order, rather than challenging it. What is that isolation doing to us? What can we do to escape it?Read more
Air Dates:
- June 09, 2018
- November 18, 2017
Across professions, half of Americans surveyed say they’re exhausted from work. More and more of us feel scrambled, tired and drained. Are we facing daily lives more prone to burnout? And what can we do about it?Read more
Air Dates:
- January 19, 2019
- June 09, 2018
Where do you go to find models of powerful women? The ancient world was full of them, real and mythic, but today we barely know their names. Why? This week we rediscover the women of ancient myths and legends.Read more
Air Dates:
- June 02, 2018
- January 22, 2017
- October 14, 2017
How do you cope with unpleasant people? We consider the adage “hell is other people.”Read more
Air Dates:
- June 02, 2018
- October 14, 2017
- April 30, 2016
Amidst economic devastation, producer Charles Monroe-Kane asks what it takes to survive in the Rust Belt.Read more
Air Dates:
- May 26, 2018
- August 26, 2017
- May 17, 2015
It doesn't matter whether you grew up going to Coney Island, Six Flags, or Pacific Park — to a kid, all amusement parks are magical. This hour we take a trip to the land of funnel cake, freak shows and fast rides.Read more
Air Dates:
- May 26, 2018
- September 30, 2017
Why do we have schools? To build a workforce? To create democratic citizens? Read more
Air Dates:
- January 05, 2019
- May 19, 2018
If life is a play, what happens during the last act? What’s it like to live knowing you have a limited amount of time left?Read more
Air Dates:
- May 19, 2018
- August 05, 2017
- December 04, 2016
We’re living through a period of mass human migration, with people on the move all over the planet. What does it take to take an unfamiliar place and make it yours?Read more
Air Dates:
- November 03, 2018
- May 12, 2018
All over the world, nation states are splintering. Separatism is on the rise. What causes nation states to erode? And what happens when they do?Read more
Air Dates:
- May 12, 2018
- July 15, 2017
- January 11, 2016
Can science tell you how to "get happy?" This hour, the psychology and history behind the very idea of happiness. Read more
Air Dates:
- May 05, 2018
Milwaukee is a city on water, right on the shore of Lake Michigan, split by the historic Milwaukee River. How did it shape the city's history, politics, culture, and people? We find out in this live broadcast from Turner Hall in Milwaukee.Read more
Air Dates:
- May 05, 2018
- October 07, 2017
For centuries, mathematicians have been looking for the deep design, the mathematical code to explain everything from microorganisms to spacetime. But it’s a dangerous quest.Read more
Air Dates:
- January 19, 2019
- April 28, 2018
- June 24, 2017
Most of us will never know what really happens behind bars. Prisons are generally off limits to the public and press, but several new investigations are drawing attention to the conditions in many of our nation's jails. This hour, what should a prison be?...Read more
Air Dates:
- December 15, 2018
- April 28, 2018
Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly old — the root mass of aspens might live 100,000 years. In this hour, we explore the science and history of trees.Read more
Air Dates:
- April 21, 2018
- September 04, 2016
- December 27, 2015
Some people talk to God and some think God talks to them. Read more
Air Dates:
- April 14, 2018
- November 20, 2016
Hip hop created a sound that changed music, art, fashion, and politics. What's next? Diplomacy? Journalism? Education? Philosophy?Read more
Air Dates:
- April 12, 2018
- November 13, 2016
- January 31, 2016
Reading books isn't always the best way to learn. Some things you need to learn from your elders, and their wisdom has often been passed down through the generations. Read more
Air Dates:
- April 07, 2018
- August 26, 2017
- March 19, 2017
Why do women have to put up with this? And how do they fight back?Read more
Air Dates:
- December 29, 2018
- April 07, 2018
Can we ever get inside the mind of an animal? Can we really know how an octopus or a parrot thinks? Also, the fascinating story of Charles Foster's attempt to act like a badger, when he lived in a hole in the ground and ate worms.Read more
Air Dates:
- December 08, 2018
- March 31, 2018
- September 09, 2017
As terrible as it sounds, most of us will go through something traumatic at some point in our lives. The experience can be deeply isolating and crushing, but it doesn't have to be. Read more
Air Dates:
- March 31, 2018
- October 21, 2017
Home entertainment options have never been richer, but public places like movie theaters and performance spaces are suffering. What do we lose when everyone stays home?Read more
Air Dates:
- April 09, 2017
- September 23, 2017
- March 24, 2018
Maybe it’s nostalgia. Maybe it’s something more. But analog is back in style.Read more
Air Dates:
- November 17, 2018
- March 24, 2018
Modern anti-depressants have saved a lot of minds. And lives. But what have they done to our bodies? And how do we navigate that trade-off between body and mind?Read more