Naomi Klein discusses how countries impose "disaster capitalism" on countries to get otherwise unpopular policies accepted.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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MiRi Park is the defending 2004 U.S. and World air guitar champion. She performs for us and tells Steve Paulson what made her the champ.
Nicholas Ostler talks to Jim Fleming about how languages spread and the similarities and differences between Chinese and English.
Marc Maron resurrected his life and career with the hit comedy podcast WTF.
Jane Juska was 67 when she placed a personal ad in the NY Review of Books looking for good sex with a man she liked.
Ecologist Mark Hunter talks with Jim Fleming about the destructive capacity of alien insects.
Richard Reynolds tells Anne Strainchamps about his adventures as a guerrilla gardener, that is, someone who tends someone else's land for harvest.
Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar edited an anthology of verse called “Urban Nature.” She talks about it with Jim Fleming and reads some of her favorites.
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