Rob Richie is executive director of the Center for Voting and Democracy. He talks about how the system of instant run off voting works and why a lot of people, including John McCain and Howard Dean, think it’s a good idea.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier talks about his new book, "Who Owns the Future?"
Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.
More than 30 million Americans live in small towns. And lots of us will drive through small towns on road trips this summer. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow just completed the first comprehensive study in half a century of small-town living. Here's his conversation with Anne...
Environmentalist Jennifer Jacquet qrecommends "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Jim Gaffigan is an actor and standup comedian, who makes extensive use of his "inner voice."
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
"Shock Doctrine" journalist Naomi Klein's Dangerous Idea? Democratize the world's energy supply.
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