Do banks really have to rule the world? Not if we use alternative currencies. Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne say thousands of these different exchange systems already exist to meet people's real needs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Find out what brain imaging technology can tell us about the experiences of Franciscan nuns and Pentecostalists at prayer.
Adam Gopnik reads excerpts from his book “Paris to the Moon,” set to music by the band Paris Combo.
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.
Sometimes a new neighbor can be like a surprise package from Fate.
How do we prevent baby boomers from bankrupting Social Security? Satirist Christopher Buckley has an idea - get the boomers to commit voluntary suicide...for tax incentives.
From Mandeville, LA, listener Sophia Derbes sent us this ghost story, called "The Lake."
Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”
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