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JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 2008

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from Wisconsin Public Radio

July 2008
07/06 07/13 06/20 07/27

07/06/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-07-06-A

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ORWELL & THE WAR ON TERROR
Abu Ghraib - Philip Gourevitch
"The Unknown Terrorist" - Richard Flanagan
Counter-Terrorist Agent - Fred Burton
Orwell's "1984" - Tim Robbins
"The Silenced" - Jim DeVita

Hour 2

 

08-07-06-B

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HOW WE REMEMBER
New Memory Research - Sue Halpern
Woman Who Can't Forget - Jill Price
Memorizing Beethoven - Christopher Taylor
Memory Studies in History - Guy Beiner

07/13/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-07-13-A

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ANIMAL MINDS
Inside Animal Minds - Virginia Morell
Elephant Painting - David Ferriss
Dogs & Boys - David Wroblewski
Animal Dialogues - Craig Childs
Bird Literature - Graeme Gibson

Hour 2

 

08-07-13-B
(was 07-07-15-A)

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HEROES, ANTI-HEROES, & REGULAR FOLKS
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman
Reading Comics - Douglas Wolk
New Comic Generation - Ulli Lust
Naughty Bits - Roberta Gregory
Strangers in Paradise - Terry Moore

07/20/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-07-20-A

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REMIX - CULTURE
Re-Mix Culture - DJ Spooky (Paul Miller)
The Mash-Up - World Famous Audio Hacker (Derek Chilcote Bacco)
The Creative Commons - Lawrence Lessig
Cassette From My Ex - Jason Bittner

Hour 2

 

08-07-20-B

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LIFE AS ENTERTAINMENT
The "Up" Series - Nick Hitchon
Personal Blogs - Emily Gould
Virtual Anthropology - Tom Bellstorf
Reality Television - Laurie Oulette
Flash Mobs - Bill Wasik

07/27/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-07-27-A

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SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCKSTAR
Sticky Fingers - Steven Kurutz
Elliott Smith - Christopher O'Riley
Sloan Alone - Doug Gordon
Street Musician - Steve Lopez
Indie Folk-Rocker - Josh Ritter

Hour 2

 

08-07-27-B
(was 07-11-04-A)

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EAST MEETS WEST PART ONE:
CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?
Mohsin Hamid
is a Reluctant Fundamentalist
Sasha Abramsky, Lee Harris, & -Ziauddin Sardar engage in a Clash of Civilizations Round-Up

Salman Ahmad is a Pakistani Rock Star
Margaret MacMillan talks about Nixon in China

August 2008
08/03 08/10 08/17 08/24 08/31

08/03/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-08-03-A

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POST-POSTMODERNISM: ARE WE THERE YET?
Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Postmodernism - Amy J. Elias
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
Monkey Bowl - Robert Ellis Orrall

Hour 2

08-08-03-B
(was 07-11-11-A)

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EAST MEETS WEST PART TWO:
DHARMA DAYS, YOGA NIGHTS
Elizabeth Gilbert talks about Seeking Spirituality
Bob Spitz
discusses Beatles in India

Lama Surya Das, Sharon Salzberg, Tara Brach & Jon Kabat-Zinn are American Buddhists
Robert Bly has translated the Poet-Saint Kabir

08/10/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-08-10-A

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COLLABORATIONS
Father of Wiki - Ward Cunningham
Coleridge & Wordsworth - Steve Paulson with Adam Sisman
Ten Canoes - Rolf De Heer
The Trinity Session - The Cowboy Junkies

Hour 2

08-08-10-B
(was 07-11-18-A)

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EAST MEETS WEST PART THREE:
THE NEW SILK ROAD
Colin Thubron
revisits the Silk Road
Yo-Yo Ma
talks about his Silk Road Project
Marian Salzman & Robyn Meredith on
Rise of "Chindia"
Susan Friedman
has e-mail with Iraq
Josh Rushing
joins Al Jazeera in America

08/17/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

08-08-17-A
(was 07-07-22-A

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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE?
Defining Crisis - Fred Pearce
Swimming Pools - Jeff Wiltse
Coral Reef Fragility - Julia Whitty
Leatherback Turtle - Carl Safina
Sushi Economy - Sasha Issenberg

Hour 2

08-08-17-B
(was 07-11-25-A)

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EAST MEETS WEST PART FOUR:
CULTURE IN THE CROSSROADS
Kumail Nanjiani questions Faith
Rachel DeWoskin is a Foreign Babe in Beijing
Eddy Moretti & Suroosh Alvi
on Muslim Heavy Metal
David Kalat
talks about J-Horror Films
Anne Allison
discusses Japanese Toys
Mira Nair
is an Indian filmmaker -

08/24/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1
08-08-24-A

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RETHINKING THE SIXTIES
60's Activist - Tom Hayden
Return to Vietnam - Gil Halsted
Remembering Dylan - Suze Rotolo
Against the Boomers - Charles Monroe-Kane
Rise of Conservatives - Rick Perlstein

Hour 2

08-08-24-B
(was 07-12-02-A)

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EAST MEETS WEST: PART FIVE
ENCOUNTERING ISLAM
Tariq Ramadan knows about Muslims in Europe
Azhar Usman
is a Muslim Comic -
Lupe Fiasco
is a Muslim Hip Hop Artist -
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a critic of Islam
Ausma Khan publishes Muslim Girl Magazine

08/31/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

08-08-31-A
(was 07-07-01-A)

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LEADERSHIP IN WAR
The War Tapes - Deborah Scranton
Winston Churchill - Martin Gilbert
How Much to Know? - James Bradley
Shakespeare's Leaders - Martin Greenblatt
Native American Warriors - Patty Loew

Hour 2

08-08-31-B
(was 07-08-05-A

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THE MALLEABLE MIND
Brain Plasticity - Norman Doidge
Mind on Psychedelics - Daniel Pinchbeck
Motherhood Makes You Smarter - Katherine Ellison
Computers & Consciousness - Marvin Minsky

 

September2008
09/07 09/14 09/21 09/28

09/07/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-09-07-A

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DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
Deja Vu & Memory - Chris Moulin
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence - Lawrence Hatab
Viewing Vertigo - Wendy Lesser
Atmospheric Disturbances - Rivka Galchen

Hour 2

 

08-09-07-B
(was 07-08-19-B)

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LEARNING SCIENCE
Newton's Law in Schools - FMA Live!
Keeping NOVA Current - Paula Apsell
Albert Einstein - Walter Isaacson
Making Science Accessible - Robert Krulwich

09/14/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-09-14-A

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BOOMER BACKLASH
GenX & Boomer Backlash - Jeff Gordinier
Boomer Booster - Leonard Steinhorn
Anti-Boomer Rant Letters segment
Generational Economics - Lisa Chamberlain

Hour 2

 

0809-14-B
(was 07-09-02-A)

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THE BESTIARY
Mythic Creatures Exhibit - Laurel Kendall
Cryptozoologist - Loren Coleman
EDGE of Existence - Jonathan Baillie
Archaea - Tim Friend
The Bestiary - Nicholas Christopher

09/21/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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08-09-21-A

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MIND AND MEANING
Stroke of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
Microphone in Brain - Coyle & Sharpe
Spiritual Evolution - George Vaillant
Musical Brain - Daniel Levitin
Really Hard Problem - Owen Flanagan

Hour 1

 

08-09-21-B
(was 07-09-09-A)

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THE BEATS GO ON
Lessons from Kerouac - John Leland
A Beat Memoir - Joyce Johnson
Allen Ginsberg - Jerry Aronson
Merge (Jazz & Poetry)

- Cassandra Cleghorn & Erik Lawrence

09/28/2008 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

08-09-28-A

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LIBRARIES
The Reading Brain - Maryanne Wolfe
Decline of Reading - Ursula Le Guin
Sarajevo Haggadah - Geraldine Brooks
Library at Night - Albert Manguel
Children's Books - Susan Hirschman

Hour 2

 

08-09-28-B

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THE HORROR, THE HORROR
An Inferno for our time - Andrew Davidson
Terror on the Air - Richard Hand
Zombie Movies - Glenn Kay
Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link
     


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