Alastair Bonnett's Dangerous Idea? Let's change our cities to promote urban biodiversity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ted Gioia was in high school when he first visited a jazz club and he realized instantly, "This is it! This is what I've been looking for." The experience changed his life and since then he's become a noted jazz critic and historian. Gioia's new book is "How to Listen to Jazz." He tells Anne Strainchamps that new collaborations with rappers and rockers are revitalizing today's jazz.
"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
Arturo Marcano tells Steve Paulson about the exploitative system of player development in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic that fuels the American major leagues.
In his book "Back to Our Future" David Sirota says the proof is in the staying power of 80s pop culture.
DEVO co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his new visual art exhibition, "Myopia."
Franz Lidz is the author of "Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders."
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