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English journalist Jason Elliot tells Steve Paulson that Afghans are proud and pious people who still suffer from the aftermath of a decade of war.

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 Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad. 

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Historian Jeremy Black talks with Steve Paulson about James Bond as an agent of the British Empire. He says Bond’s adventures are often set in former British colonies.

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Poderopedia's goal is to make those connections more transparent.  It’s a crowd-sourced map of business and political power in Chile.

 

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO IN ENGLISH EXPLAINING PODEROPEDIA.

HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA VER UN VIDEO EN ESPANOL QUE EXPLICA PODEROPEDIA.
 

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Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of “The Tipping Point.”  He talks about how successful marketing works and gives some examples.

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Black, white and Jewish: Rebecca Walker talks with Steve Paulson about her unconventional upbringing and how having a child of her own changed her feelings about it.

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Is there a science of rap?  Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.

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Joshua Clover explains the subtitle of his book, “1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About.”

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