For much of her early life, rock critic Jessica Hopper was an ardent fan of punk rock. But despite her passion, she never felt like she quite fit in. That began to change once she started seeing female fronted bands performing onstage. She says the experience convinced her that there was a place for her in music. The discovery set her on a quest to uncover the countless other ways women are excluded from music, which she writes about in her book, "The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic." She spoke to producer Craig Eley about the various forms of sexism she encountered in her decades-long career as a music journalist.
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James Hughes is a practicing Buddhist who believes that the future may present radically new possibilities for death, including a potential end to the end of life.
Einstein hated the idea. He called it "spooky action at a distance." But experiments have confirmed the bizarre property of quantum entanglement, where two particles on opposite sides of the universe can almost magically respond to each other. Journalist George Musser says we've barely begun to grasp the truly radical nature of non-locality.
James Lovelock believes that our planet is a self-regulating system that will carry on without people and that it is too late to reverse global warming.
S. Alexander Reed gives us a crash course on what may be the ultimate protest music -- industrial music.
Jacqueline Novogratz tells Jim Fleming how she combines capitalism and charity to apply business principles to philanthropy in a way that benefits people's lives.
Howard Schwartz talks with Anne Strainchamps about the angel traditions in Judaism, and the many angelic appearances in Hebrew literature.
Ever wonder how we form beliefs in the first place? Journalist Will Storr tried to find out in his book, “The Unpersuadables.” In it, he follows Holocaust deniers, climate change skeptics, and conspiracy theorists to find out how seemingly intelligent people can hold unconventional, even irrational beliefs.
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