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JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH 2009

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from Wisconsin Public Radio

January 2009
01/04 01/11 01/18 01/25

01/04/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-01-04-A
(was 08-01-06-A)

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EINSTEIN, GOD & THE UNIVERSE
We have a round-up of views about Einstein and religion from Richard Dawkins, Elaine Pagels, Steven Weinberg, John Haught, & Walter Isaacson.
David Lindorff
is author of "Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds"
David Leavitt's novel is about the Indian mathematician Ramanujan
Father Thomas Keating is a Trappist monk

Hour 2

 

09-01-04-B
(was 08-02-24-A)

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SINGULAR BRAINS
Lizzy Gottlieb has made a film about her brother Nicky
Oliver Sacks explores music & the brain
Howard Dully talks about his lobotomy
John Elder Robison explains Asperger's from the inside

01/11/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-01-11 -A

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MAGICAL THINKING
Pop Mysticisms - Robert M. Price
Dungeons & Dragons - Mark Barrowcliffe
Alternative Realities - Holly Black
C.S. Lewis & Narnia - Laura Miller

Hour 2

 

09-01-11-B
(was 08-03-02-A)

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TOUCHING THE SOUND
Evelyn Glennie
understands percussion differently due to her deafness
Richard Roth explores the sounds of early America
Philip Groning filmed the silence of a Carthusian monastery
Sound artist Doug Quin hears the sounds the rest of us don't consider

01/18/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-01-18-A

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GOOD HUNTING
Hunting & Ecology - Donald Waller
Women & Hunting - Kim Hiss
Bowhunting - Bob Stout
Photographing Wolves - Frank Boll
Hunting Bear - Tina Bertoni
Falcon Fever - Tim Gallagher

Hour 2

 

09-01-18-B
(was 08-03-09-A)

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LEARNING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Short Bus - Jonathan Mooney
Children's Songs - Dan Zanes
Alternative Education - Matt Hern
Gifted Children - Michael Piechows
Teaching Kids About War - Sherman Alexie

01/25/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-01-25-A

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WILD WORLD OF SPORTS
Superbowl - Allen St. John
Athletic Beauty - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Roller Derby - Meliss "Melicious" Joulwan
Sports & Politics - Dave Zirin

Hour 2

 

09-01-25-A
(was 08-02-24-B)

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A GOOD DEATH?
Music & his Father's death - Ed Wohl Reflections on Mortality - Pauline Chen reflects on mortality
Remembering Susan Sontag - David Rieff
Death is a Sure Thing - David Shields

 

February 2009
02/01 02/08 02/15 02/22

02/01/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-02-01-A

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THE DISMAL SCIENCE
How Economists Missed the Crisis - Paul Krugman
How Economics Undermines Community - Stephen Marglin
Hedge Fund Poetry - Katy Lederer
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt
An Insiter's View - Catherine Austin Fitts

Hour 2

09-02-01-B

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ALONE TIME
Science of Loneliness - John Cacioppo
Seeking Solitude - Robert Kull
Music of Loneliness - Bill Friskics-Warren
Loneliness as a Way of Life - Thomas Dumm
Acedia - Kathleen Norris

02/08/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-02-08-A

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THE PRESIDENT FROM ILLINOIS (Lincoln)
Lincoln & Obama - Orville Vernon Burton
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln's Racial Growth - John Stauffer
Civil War Suffering - Drew Gilpin Faust
Assassination - Sarah Vowell

Hour 2

 

09-02-08-B

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THE DARWIN DEBATES
Darwin's Radicalism - Daniel Dennett
Flock of Dodos - Randy Olson
Darwin on Religion - Steve Paulson
Evolutionist - Richard Dawkins
Creationism - Ron Numbers
Consciousness in Evolution - Elisabet Sahtouris

02/15/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-02-15-A

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THE WONDERS OF PHYSICS
Physics for Presidents - Richard Muller
Eccentric Physicists - Robert Laughlin
Hugh Everett & Parallel Universes - Mark Oliver Everett
Isaac Newton Novel - Rebecca Stott
Physics Poetry - A. Van Jordan

Hour 2

 

09-02-15-B
(was 08-04-13-B)

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GENRE BUSTERS
Raymond Chandler - Judith Freeman
Genre Fiction is Great - Michael Chabon
Classics for Pleasure - Michael Dirda
Agatha Christie - M.C. Beaton & Matthew Prichard
Lush Life - Richard Price

02/22/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

09-02-22-A
(was 08-02-17-B)

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TALKING PICTURES
Woody Allen & Comedy - Eric Lax
The Studio Star System - Jeanine Basinger
Independent Screenplays - J.J. Murphy
Lebowski Fest - Will Russell & Scott Shuffitt

Hour 2

 

09-02-22-B
(was 06-06-11-A)

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IS RELIGION DANGEROUS?
Religion IS Dangerous - Sam Harris
Defending Religion - Karen Armstrong
Muslim Comic - Azhar Usman
Carthusian Monks - Nancy Klein Maguire

March 2009
03/01 03/08 03/15 03/22 03/29

03/01/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-03-01-A
(was 05-08-21-A)

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CAN WHITE GUYS BE HIP?
Hip & Race - John Leland
Bing Crosby - Gary Giddins
Rent-a-negro - Nick Hornby & Damali Ayo
Being Cool - Chuck E. Weiss
Race & Authenticity - Greil Marcus & Stanley Crouch

Hour 2

 

09-03-02-B
(was 05-09-25-A)

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ELEMENTARY HOLMES
Beekeeper Holmes Novel - Mitch Cullen
Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes - Laurie King
New Annotated Holmes - Leslie Klinger
Writing Mysteries - P.D. James
Psychic Detective - Victoria Laurie

03/08/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-03-08-A

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TEEN ANGST
Natural History of Teens - David Bainbridge
PostSecret Blog - Frank Warren
Growing Up with Alice Walker - Rebecca Walker
High School Nerd - Eugene Mirman

Hour 2

 

 

09-03-08-B

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LUST FOR LIFE LISTS
The 50 Greatest Things That Just Popped Into My Head - Jack Pendarvis
1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die - Tom Moon
13 Books That Changed America - Jay Parini
1000 Films - David Thomson
World's Most Amazing Birds - Olivia Gentile

03/15/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-03-15-A

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FACING TIME
Clock of the Long Now - Alexander Rose
Physics of Time Travel - David Toomey
Dialogue with Time - Lera Auerbach
Slowness Movement - Carl Honore
Aboriginal Dream Time - Wade Davis
9BeetStretch

Hour 2

 

09-03-15-B

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SHAKESPEARE - WHERE THERE'S A WILL
Shakespeare & Modern Culture - Marjorie Garber
Novel of Sex Drugs & Shakespeare - Jess Winfield
Was Shakespeare Shakespeare?
- Mark Anderson & Stephen Greenblatt
Graphic Novel Shakespeare - Karen Winborn

03/22/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-03-22-A

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Part One: Our Computers
Hundred Dollar Laptops - Nicholas Negroponte
The Hybrid Economy - Lawrence Lessig
Games That Make You Cry - Jason Rohrer
Computers & Human Spirit - Sherry Turkle

Hour 2

 

09-03-22-B
(was 08-04-06-A)

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DUMBING DOWN, SMARTENING UP
Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders
Bear v. Shark - Chris Bachelder
Audio Crawl - Al Franken
Cult of the Amateur - Andrew Keen

03/29/2009 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

09-03-29-A

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Part Two: Our Money
Micro-Lending - Muhammad Yunus
Stop Shopping - Reverend Billy
Susatinable Economics - Jeffrey Sachs
Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
Building Schools in Afghanistan - Greg Mortensen
Visionary Economics - Paul Krugman

Hour 2

 

09-03-29-B

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THE ART OF NOISE
Ambient Addition - Noah Vawter
Noise - Bart Kosko
Noise/Music - Paul Hegarty
Hearing Loss - Caryl Owen
Days of Silence - Anne D. LeClaire

     


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