Lars Svendsen talks with Anne Strainchamps about boredom's long, long history. Or maybe it just seems that way.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The State Department used jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World. Louis Armstrong, Dizy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubek were among the so-called "jazz ambassadors."
Lynne Cox is a long distance swimmer who specializes in the impossible. She tells Steve Paulson how she trained, and how she’s able to do survive in such cold water.
John Hasse gives Jim Fleming several examples of patriotic music and talks about the various ways they’ve been used. They explore some suggested alternatives to the national anthem.
Master gardener Michael Pollan talks about his youthful experiment with growing marijuana and explains how the war on drugs spurred growers into developing a stronger, hardier plant.
Mark Helprin reads from his new book, “The Pacific and Other Stories,” and talks with Jim Fleming about what really matters in life: courage, integrity, compassion.
Maude Barlow is the co-author (with Tony Clark) of “Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Theft of the World’s Water.” She tells Jim Fleming that corporations are taking over the world’s water, often with the assistance of governments who privatize municipal water systems.
Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia. His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.
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