Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The massive protests in Ferguson, Missouri are on our minds this week. We explore the racial conflict and police violence with sociologist Alice Goffman.
Ralph Stanley is one of the founding fathers of bluegrass or old-time mountain music. He talks with Steve Paulson about his family, his music and his concern with death, and we hear lots of his music.
Robert Marshall says that the late Carlos Castaneda was a literary trickster who invented most of the teachings of Don Juan which made him famous in the sixties.
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."
Margaret Atwood says it's a mistake to think about debt as simply a matter of money. Debt is embedded in our psyche and rife in our literary and religious history.
Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
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