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Buffy Sainte-Marie on Her New Album, "Power in the Blood"

74 year-old Cree musician Buffy Sainte-Marie has done a lot since she was 24. She got her Ph.D. She got politically active in the American Indian Movement and the anti-GMO movement. She raised a family. She was even on Sesame Street for five seasons—and was the first woman to breast feed on American television.

But most of us know Buffy Sainte-Marie as an iconic 60s folk singer with such hits as "Universal Soldier" and "It's My Way." And now, some 50 years after her debut album, Buffy has a new one. It’s called “Power in the Blood.” This new CD proves that this Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe award-winning woman's career is not over yet.

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Elizabeth Little on "Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic"

Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor who collects languages. She tells Jim Fleming about the perils of learning tonal languages.

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Christopher Caldwell on Muslim Immigration

Christopher Caldwell talks with Steve Paulson about the European discomfort with the rising tide of Muslim immigration.

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Eugene Mirman on being a High School Nerd

Eugene Mirman is an indie comic and the author of an outlandish self-help send-up called "The Will to Whatevs." He tells Jim Fleming that school was horrible for him and gave rise to his nerd humor.

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David Rothenberg on Birdsong

Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg plays duets with birds all over the world.  He’s searching for an answer to the question “Why Birds Sing.”

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Culture Clash

Cultural scientist Alana Conner believes we all navigate different identities, and not just along racial or ethnic lines. She finds many cultural conflicts boil down to two competing types of selves.

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Coleman Barks on the Sufi Poet Rumi

After all the debates about the Muslim world, it’s refreshing to look back at one of the world’s great mystics - the Sufi poet Rumi.

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Dennis McFarland on Fictional Grief

Novelist Dennis McFarland deals with the consequences of violence in his book “Singing Boy.” McFarland talks about the effects of grief on the deceased’s survivors.

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