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Chris Hardman decided to redesign the calendar, representing time and the seasons the way we experience them in the natural world.

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Dorie Greenspan talks about Paris desserts with Jim Fleming. Her latest book is “Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City’s Best Pastry Shops.”

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When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a professional, someone like Caitlin Doughty. She's a licensed mortician, death activist, and creator of the popular webseries "Ask A Mortician". In this interview, she talks about what happens when a body is prepared for burial.

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Frans de Waal talks with Jim Fleming about chimps, who can be aggressive and violent, and bonobos, who are mama's boys and like sex.

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Bart Kosko is a professor of electrical engineering at USC and the author of "Noise." He explains the science of noise. And we hear lots of examples.

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Edmund White recommends Henry Green's 1950 novel, "Nothing."

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Bill Moyers has won 9 Peabody Awards and 30 Emmys, and now hosts a show on PBS.  His particular niche is exploring big ideas on television, as he did in his memorable series with myth-maker Joseph Campbell.

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Brian Jones is an actor portraying Karl Marx in "Marx in Soho."  Jones tells Judith Strasser some of the details about Marx that helped him nail the character.

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