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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Rita Golden Gelman tells Anne Strainchamps how she became a professional nomad, and recounts some stories from her travels in Bali and rural Mexico.
Environmentalist Bill McKibben believes it's time for a new environmental paradigm: small and local.
We’re introduced to the concept of culture jamming, and Kalle Lasn tells Steve Paulson what led him to found his magazine “Adbusters.”
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.
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.
Robert Thurman tells Anne Strainchamps about the Buddhist concept of self and why it leads to compassion and understanding.
Kelly Lambert tells Anne Strainchamps about her brain research into how using both hands on crafts projects can be as beneficial to the body as taking psychoactive medication.
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