Why do we sleep? No-one really knows, but neuro-scientist Bob Stickgold tells Jim Fleming about his ideas concerning sleep and why it’s important.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Comic novelist David Lodge takes on the old battle between science and the humanities in his latest book, “Thinks.”
Catherine Austin Fitts was the Federal Housing Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of Housing under the first Bush administration. She managed a Wall Street investment firm and is now president of Solari, Inc.
Hip hop artist DJ Spooky brought a crew to Antarctica and created Sinfonia Antarctica. He tells us how his audio portrait documents the effects of climate change on the continent.
Earlier this year a new show went up at the Milwaukee Art Museum, all about folk art. We stopped by to find the beauty behind folk art.
Entomologist Deborah Gordon tells Steve Paulson that ant colonies run with no one in charge. She’s spent years figuring out how they do it.
Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talks about her traditional Indian childhood and the Bengali dream-tellers she met while researching "Queen of Dreams."
Dwight Reynolds talks with Steve Paulson about the history of religious tolerance in Al-Andalus and how it was reflected in the music of Moorish Spain.
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