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In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself. 

That’s one themes that runs through “Children of the Days,” the latest book from the lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano.

You can also listen to the extended version of Steve's conversation with him.

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Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books.  There are five of them now. The latest on is called "The Lost Colony."

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Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.

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Father Thomas Keating is considered by some people one of the world's greatest living mystics.

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Bill McKibben tells Anne Strainchamps that his new Honda Civic electric hybrid car gets over fifty miles to the gallon and is just as comfortable and convenient as his old Civic.

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Chris Ware bookmarks "Society Is Nix" by Peter Maresca.

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Anyone who works in news will tell you that photographs drive attention.  That a great photograph can propel a story or an issue from the sidelines to the center of a public conversation.  Large-scale photographer Edward Burtynsky is making it his life’s work to jump start a global conversation about sustainability – by photographing scarred, damaged industrial landscapes.  He’s a TED prize winner whose work is in more than 50 museum collections.  Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal have worked together on two documentaries.  Steve Paulson talked with her about their first – filmed in China.  It’s called  “Manufactured Landscapes.”

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Jim Fleming interviews Brian Greene before a live audience at Borders Booksellers in Madison, Wisconsin. They talk about the lasting significance of Albert Einstein, and Greene answers questions from the audience.

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