What's the premise of Karaoke Capitalism?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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French chemist Pierre Laszlo tells Steve Paulson that our bodies need salt to prevent dehydration and that removing the salt from seawater isn’t that hard, but it’s very expensive.
When Noelle Howey was a teenager, her dad realized he was a trans-sexual and began the process of undergoing a sex change. Now, they’re better friends than ever.
One of the most amazing things about National Parks is what you can hear. Or as acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton would put it, NOT hear. He's is the founder of the organization One Square Inch of Silence. The once square inch is an actual place located in the Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park. The exact location is marked by a small red-colored stone placed on top of a moss-covered log. And after you hear (or don't hear) this piece you will want to go. So, here's a map.
Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.
Orhan Pamuk is Turkey’s most famous writer and a cultural ambassador for Turkey around the world.
Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis talks about the possibility of upgrading our brains with computer chips.
M.G. Lord is the author of “Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science.” Her father worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena in the early days of the space program.
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