Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, recommends E.O. Wilson's "The Meaning of Human Existence."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
Music journalist Charles R. Cross shares one of his favorite forgotten albums from The Sonics.
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
Pianist Christopher O'Riley agrees with Duke Ellington that there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. He has a thriving career playing both classical music and his own arrangements of Elliot Smith and Radiohead.
Arthur Zajonc tells Jim Fleming that Einstein's idea of god is common to many top scientists.
Dan Barber's organic farm with acres of greenhouses and free range livestock embodies Barber's belief in the imperative to rebuild a sense of connection with where our food comes from.
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