Neuro-psychologist Brian Butterworth tells Jim Fleming about his work with people who’ve lost their number sense. Butterworth thinks we’re all hard-wired to recognize and manipulate numbers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
Chuck Taggart talks about New Orleans’ rich musical history, and we hear many examples.
Journalist Naomi Klein is in Paris covering the Climate Summit. She says if we're serious about climate change, we need to confront capitalism itself.
Our final interview in today’s show has nothing to do with collecting – unless you consider winning two presidential campaigns a collection of two wins. David Axelrod was the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and recently stopped by our studio to talk about the art of running for office.
Charles McGrath thinks comic books or graphic novels are becoming a legitimate art form that will probably continue to evolve.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Eric Steel tells Steve Paulson that his crew filmed The Golden Gate Bridge every daylight minute for one year, and thus witnessed many suicides and even more attempts.
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