Neurosurgeon Charles Limb and jazz bassist Mike Pope talk about some groundbreaking brain imaging studies of jazz musicians while they improvise.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Biologist Bill Streever is a cryophile – someone who loves the cold.
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Brian Palmer has been a staff writer at Fortune magazine, Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report and a correspondent for CNN. He tells Anne Strainchamps that none of that prepared him for Iraq where he was embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines.
Esperanza Spalding is one of the brightest young stars in jazz - except she resists being labeled a "jazz musician." In fact, her new album "Emily's D+ Evolution" sounds more like rock than jazz. When she sat down in our studio with Steve Paulson, she talked about her childhood roots in classical music before her momentous discovery of jazz improvisation.
Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a famous critic of Islam. She talks with Steve Paulson about why she believes Islam is inherently incompatible with Western values.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
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