Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reporter Benson Gardner chronicles the ethical dilemmas posed by advanced veterinary care. How much should you do for an ailing pet? Where do you draw the line, and why?
Producer Sara Nics on the story behind this show... how she's tried to come to terms with our narrative selves.
Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Dangerous Idea? Open source currency as the next money model.
Daniel Wolff tells Anne Strainchamps that most Americans learn what they really need to know outside of school and that, as a society, we believe contradictory things about the value of public education.
I dunno, but it seems kind of extreme, not to mention risky, to bio-engineer a mass mosquito die-off. So Steve Paulson tracked down the world’s greatest living entomologist to see what he has to say. E. O Wilson is sometimes called “the ant man” – that’s the insect he studied most – but he’s best known as the evolutionary biologist and a champion of biodiversity. He’s 86 years old now, and has just finished what is probably his last book – called “Half Earth”. It’s a passionate plea to save humanity by dedicating half the planet to nature. You’d assume that Wilson would be happy to let mosquitos live in that half… but that’s not what he told Steve.
According to Cesar Millan, dogs need exercise, discipline and affection, in that order.
Ellen Handler-Spitz talks with Jim Fleming about the how imagination develops in childhood.
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