Music historian Will Friedwald is the author of “Stardust Melodies.” He talks with Steve Paulson about the history of the song “My Funny Valentine” and we hear lots of different interpretations.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steven Johnson is the author of several books including "Mind Wide Open" and "The Invention of Air." His new one is "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation."
Psychologist Alison Gopnik is changing the way we think about babies. Her lab at UC-Berkeley has found evidence of empathy and scientific thinking in children as young as 14 months.
Susan Krieger tells Jim Fleming how much she can actually see and what sight and vision have come to mean to her.
Shaun Alexander tells Steve Paulson what chess does for him and why he thinks it’s good for inner city youth.
Filmmakers Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel talk about their documentary "Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?"
Psychologist Stanley Coren tells Jim Fleming how the modern dog developed and why they have such an important place in people's lives.
Some of the greatest trips give us that feeling of traveling back in time. Last summer, Aubrey Ralph did nearly that, when he spent nine days sailing aboard a 200 year old tall ship, across two Great Lakes. He was with the reconstructed U.S. Brig Niagara as she shoved off from her home port in Erie, PA.
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