Robin Wall Kimmerer is a biologist, a writer, and a member of the Potawatomi nation. In her essay collection, "Braiding Sweetgrass," she weaves scientific knowledge and indigenous wisdom into a deeper understanding of the nature of plant life.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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First Amendment lawyer Ron Collins talks with Steve Paulson about the renegade comedian and junkie Lenny Bruce who was repeatedly arrested for obscenity.
Sallie Ann Glassman is a voodoo priestess. She talks about why vodou (or voodoo) is such a misunderstood religion and what spirit possession feels like.
Luke Rhinehart's novel, “The Dice Man", involves a psychiatrist who opens his life to new possibilities by basing his actions on a throw of the diced.
In 2005, New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau wrote a series of articles about the surveillance – without warrants – of some Americans’ international phone calls and e-mails. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting. In 2008, Steve asked Lichtblau about covering the NSA’s warrantless wire-tapping program.
Author of "Farm City" faces a drawback to her urban farm dream in Oakland, then called "the murder capital of the world."
Pierre Ferrari is one of the founders of TeamX, a clothing company with a social conscience. He tells Jim Fleming that the company limits executive salaries to eight times the salary of the lowest paid worker.
Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom offers a cautionary take on artificial intelligence in his new book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. In it, he imagines what could happen if computers were to ever become smarter than humans. He tells Steve Paulson that it could have catastrophic effects, unless we start thinking about it now.
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