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Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm:  small and local.

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Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities.  He says part of the answer might be tree houses and… meat houses. Yes, you heard that right, MEAT houses.

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So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.

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Many things can evoke a memory. Like a smell. Or a touch. When Mamek Khadem wanted to evoke the memory of her native Iran during the Islamic revolution in 1979, she did it with music. 

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Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.

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Karen Levine talks with Anne Strainchamps about “Hana’s Suitcase.” Hana Brady perished as a child in a Nazi death camp.

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Mark Anthony Neal considers himself a feminist and thinks that the traditional stereotypes of the Strong Black Man have contributed to the problems that Black men face today.

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Paul Beatty recommends a novel by German-Jewish Holocaust survivor Edgar Hilsenrath.

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