Kay Redfield Jamison tells Jim Fleming that suicide is epidemic in our society and usually associated with a major mental illness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Matthew Johnson founded Far Possum Records to preserve the Delta and Hill Country blues he loves. Now he produces recordings which feature hip-hop and techno style re-mixes of his classic recordings.
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.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.
Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.
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