Sarah Vowell is obsessed by presidential assassinations.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poltergeists, ghosts, telepathy and other psychic phenomena used to be considered legitimate subjects for scientific research. Historian Jeffrey Kripal recounts the intellectual history of the paranormal.
Doug Gordon found Steve Nieve in Chicago and talked with him about his music and his collection of sounds.
You may not know Shepard Fairey but, you probably know his work. In 2008 he created the now-iconic Obama HOPE poster.
Tom Bollestorff is an anthropologist at UC Irvine and author of "Coming of Age in Second Life."
For our 2008 hour on plagiarism and intellectual propriety, we remixed our interview on sampling and remixes with DJ Spooky.
Wendy Doniger says sexual positions are just a small part of the Kamasutra, and that the British taught the Indians to be ashamed of this book, and their bodies.
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