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Jeff Ferrell gave up life as a tenured professor and became a dumpster diver. His new book is "Empire of Scrounge."

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Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder”  was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years. 

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Poderopedia's goal is to make those connections more transparent.  It’s a crowd-sourced map of business and political power in Chile.

 

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO IN ENGLISH EXPLAINING PODEROPEDIA.

HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA VER UN VIDEO EN ESPANOL QUE EXPLICA PODEROPEDIA.
 

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Rachel Cohen tells Steve Paulson that Ulysses S. Grant owed his publishing success to Mark Twain, and many other unlikely connection stories.

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Matthew Klamm, Thisbe Nissen, and Emma Richler talk with Steve Paulson about the lives of young writers and how their attitudes differ from those of their parents’ generation.

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Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano tells Steve Paulson that our ideas about spirits and the soul can be entirely explained by new insights from brain science.

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Maggie Nelson talks to Steve Paulson about her new book, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."

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Graphic war photos can be very powerful, but they often elicit complicated and unforeseen reactions among viewers.

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