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Kim Stanley Robinson - Extended Interview

Here's our extended conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and imagining the future.

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Lone Frank on the Neuroscience of Advertising

Coke consistently outsells Pepsi, though Pepsi routinely wins blind taste tests. Why is one of the mysteries of advertising.

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Neda Ulaby on "Tristram Shandy"

Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."

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Maria Tatar on Childhood Stories

Maria Tatar is the author of "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood." She talks with Steve Paulson about what makes fairy tales so compelling to children.

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Justin Taylor on "The Apocalypse Reader"

Jim Fleming talks with Justin Taylor, editor of "The Apocalypse Reader," a collection of 34 short stories about the end of the world.

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Lawrence Lessig on "Code: Version 2.0"

Breaking the law by singing "Happy Birthday"? That's absurd.

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Nina Simonds on Eating Yin and Yang

Nina Simonds tells Jim Fleming about dining at Singapore's Imperial Herbal restaurant, where the staff herbalist prescribes a meal for you aimed at balancing your yin and yang.

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Reading: Kishwar Desai's "Witness the Night"

Crime fiction from India?  Sample a bit of Kishwar Desai's award-winning novel, Witness the Night.  Read by Marika Suval.

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