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Najaf Mazari on "The Honey Thief"

For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”

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Jeffrey Kripal on the Paranormal

.Historian Jeffrey Kripal makes the case for taking paranormal phenomena more seriously.

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Renee Fleming on "The Inner Voice"

Soprano Renee Fleming talks with Anne Strainchamps about the mystery of the human voice, and how she manages her voice, her characters, and her stage fright.

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Meir Shalev on "A Pigeon and A Boy"

Meir Shalev tells Jim Fleming that he thinks the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem reached at the conclusion of that war was a just one and that the parties should return to the 1948 agreement.

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Orhan Pamuk on "Snow"

Orhan Pamuk is Turkey’s most famous writer and a cultural ambassador for Turkey around the world.

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Listener Dangerous Idea on Teaching

Kate La Riviere-Gagner's Dangerous Idea? There should be a reality show to give people a better idea of what a day in the life of a teacher is like.

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Paul Ekman on the Psychology of Lies

Paul Ekman tells Jim Fleming about different kinds of lies, and the physical signs that signal deceit.

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Laura Miller on the Shortcomings of "Twilight"

Laura Miller tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" books are such a phenomenal success with young women, even though the lead female character is so lacking in gifts or accomplishments.

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