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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Sharon Olds (Brett Hall)

Poems about her divorce just won Sharon Olds a Pulitzer Prize. She joins us.

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Friday, April 26, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Brain Art showcases prizewinners in the 2012 Brain-Art Competition that honors outstanding visualizations of brain research data. The works are by John Van Horn (US), Neda Jahanshad (US), Betty Lee (US), Daniel Margulies (US) and Alexander Schäfer (DE). (Flickr/Ars Electronica)

How humans think. The human brain as an analogy machine.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 | 11:00 AM
North Koreans walk bicycles along a street in Kaesong, North Korea, north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP)

Inside North Korea. We talk with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Orphan Masters Son.

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Isabel Allende

Bestselling author Isabel Allende’s novel of a Chilean grandmother saving a granddaughter who’s down and out in Las Vegas.

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Monday, April 22, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Fred Hiatt (Washington Post)

Washington Post editor Fred Hiatt’s latest novel tells the fictional tale of a girl’s search for her missing father in China. We’ll talk with him and the real woman behind the story.

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Monday, April 15, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Members of the Doors pose for an undated publicity photo. From left; John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison. Morrison died in 1971 at age 27. (AP)

Music philosopher Greil Marcus listens back to The Doors and hears dread and light and Thomas Pynchon.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | 11:00 AM
The Fog Warning, Winslow Homer, 1885

“The Mortal Sea.” A ship’s captain turned scholar tracks our impact on the oceans through time.

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Thursday, April 4, 2013 | 10:00 AM
David Stockman, wunderkind of the Reagan administration and a key architect of the biggest tax cut in U.S. history. (AP)

Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman says crony capitalism has left the U.S. economy in giant trouble. He’s with us.

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Monday, March 25, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Bruce Feiler and his family. (Photo by Kelly Hike)

What happy families do right, from telling the family story to creating healthy relationships across generations.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Douglas Rushkoff (Photo by Johannes Kroemer)

Never mind future shock. Douglas Rushkoff says we’re suffering “present shock.” The tyranny of the digital, always-on “now.”

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May 24, 2013
President Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Oklahoma’s monster tornado. The president on counterterrorism. A vote on gay Boy Scouts.

May 24, 2013
A metal fan crowd surfs in a mosh pit during the heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air in Germany. (Philipp Guelland, DAPD/AP)

The definitive history of heavy metal and what it’s always been about.

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May 23, 2013
In this 2011 photo, U.S. Navy sailors participate in intense 10-minute workout intervals. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael K. McNabb/U.S. Navy)

Rock-hard bodies in a fraction of the time. We’ll look at the 7-minute workout and the promises of high-intensity exercise.

 
May 23, 2013
In this 2010 photo, a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards is seen at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Congress says food stamps are costing the country too much and debating big cuts. One in every seven Americans is using them to eat. What’s going on?

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Summer’s On Its Way: Exercise Questions Answered
Friday, May 24, 2013

Three fitness experts joined us during our hour on high-intensity workouts and offered their tips on being safe and responsible during any type of exercise.

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Is America Coming Undone?
Thursday, May 23, 2013

New Yorker writer George Packer says yes. He reflected on the nation’s core institutions failing the American people.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Henry Fords Of Today
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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