Amy Ray and Emily Saliers - The Indigo Girls - have been a mainstay of the music festival circuit for years. They just released their 14th studio album, "One Lost Day." They stopped by our studio to reflect on women, the music industry, coming out, and the decline of women's music festivals.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Film critic Jake Horsley talks with Steve Paulson about the legitimate uses of violence in movies. He thinks it can be cathartic.
Atheist and humanist A.C. Grayling says we don't need religion for inspiration or morality, and he believes religion has done more harm than good. Grayling talks about two of his latest books: a humanist bible and a humanist manifesto.
Psychiatrist Hans Breiter tells Steve Paulson that men’s brains may be hard-wired to appreciate female beauty and explains some of the science that makes him think so.
How important is this discovery of hominin fossils in the Rising Star Cave? Paleoanthropologist John Hawks says it overturns many of our assumptions about human prehistory, and also raises profound questions about what these human-like creatures thought about death and ritual.
Greg Mortensen is the author of "Three Cups of Tea." The book explains how a failed attempt to climb K2 led to a program to build schools in the heart of Taliban country in Pakistan and Afghanistan with local people and donated money.
Geoffrey Colvin says that great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.
Writer Gina Nahai grew up in Iran under the Shah and watched the growing strength of Islamic fundamentalism. Her latest novel is set in Tennessee, among a community of Appalachian Holy Rollers.
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