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JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 2010

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July 2010
07/04 07/11 07/18 07/25

07/04/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-07-04-A

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NEW EAST, OLD WISDOM
Sacred in New India - William Dalrymple
Tibetan Exiles - Greg Bruno
Sacred Hip Hop - MC Yogi
Rethinking Buddhism - Stephen Batchelor

Hour 1

 

10-07-04-B

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ANXIETY
History of Anxiety - Patricia Pearson
Crazy Like Us - Ethan Watters
Psychiatry Crisis - Daniel Carlat
Acousmatic Sound - Brian Kane

07/11/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-07-11-A

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POETRY OUT LOUD
Poetry Out Loud - Amber Rose Johnson
Leave Your Sleep - Natalie Merchant
Versed - Rae Armantrout
Human Voice - Bobby McFerrin

Hour 2

 

10-07-11-B
(was 09-08-09-A)

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REVIVING CLASSICAL MUSIC
Performing Asian Music- Anne Akiko Myers
Rhythm Rules! - Jade Simmons
Bridgetower not Kreutzer - Rita Dove
Violin Prodigy - Joshua Bell

07/18/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-07-18-A

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SCANDINAVIAN DEATH TRIP
"The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut" - Nora Ephron (read by Jim Fleming)
Stieg Larsson - Charles McGrath
Inspector Wallander - Henning Mankell
Norwegian Crime Queen - Karin Fossum
Icelandic Crime - Arnaldur Indritason
Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Rehn

Hour 2

 

10-07-18-B
(was 09-08-02-A)

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AMAZING MINDS: INSIDE AUTISM
Amazing Minds - Daniel Tammet
Autism the Musical - Tricia Regan
Brother's Memoir - Karl Taro Greenfeld
Aliens & Autism - Ian Hacking
Disordered World - Tyler Cowen

07/25/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-07-25-A

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HERE THERE BE MONSTERS
Favorite Monsters - Lynda Barry
Post-Apocalypse - Justin Cronin
Fear of Monsters - Stephen Asma
Bigfoot - Joshua Blu Buhs
Modern Prometheus - Richard Holmes

Hour 2

 

10-07-25-B
(was 09-08-30-A)

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RELIGION 2.0
Spiritual Non-Religious - Clark Strand
New Wave Buddhism - Brad Warner
Religious Case Against Belief - James Carse
Feeding Your Demons - Tsultrim Allione
Reading Old Testament - David Plotz

August 2010
08/01 08/08 08/15 08/22 08/29

08/01/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-08-01-B
(was 09-10-04-A)

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BACK TO THE FARM
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Tomatoes & Honey - Farmer's Market
Raising Goats - Brad Kessler
Cherries & Cheese - Farmer's Market
Off the Grid - Lynda Barry
Boutique Farming - Michael Perry

Hour 2

 


10-08-01-A
(was 09-10-18-A)

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MAKING WORDS
American English - Patricia O'Conner
Sound & Meaning - Roy Blount, Jr.
Amazon Language - Dan Everett
Invented Languages - Arika Okrent
Parrot Talk- Irene Pepperberg

08/08/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-08-08-A
(was 09-10-25-B)

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ETHICS OF WESTERN AID
Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
Acting to End Poverty - Peter Singer
Philanthropy & Capitalism - Jacqueline Novogratz
Surgery in Africa - Abraham Verghese

Hour 2

 

10-08-08-B
(was09-10-18-B)

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO POP CULTURE
Pop Culture in Muslim World - Richard Poplak
Christian Pop Culture - Daniel Radosh
Dr. Alex Comfort - Pagan Kennedy
Pop Culture Memories - Nathan Rabin

08/15/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-08-15-A
(was 09-11-01-B)

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FONTS
Obama's Font - Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones
Kindle - Nicholson Baker
Verdana - Matthew Carter
Silver Buckle Press - Tracy Honn
Handwriting - Kitty Burns Florey

Hour 2

 

10-08-15-B
(was 09-11-08-B)

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COMING OF AGE THROUGH MUSIC
Music for Girls - Lavinia Greenlaw
Old-Time Mountain Music - Ralph Stanley
Music & Fandom - Nick Hornby
Singer/Songwriter - Geraint Watkins

08/22/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-08-22-A

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WRITERS ON WRITING
Shirley Jackson - Joan Wylie Hall
Richard Yates - Blake Bailey
Upton Sinclair - Chris Bachelder
Philip K. Dick - Jonathan Lethem
Hour 2

 

10-08-22-B

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LOSING RELIGION
Islam Threat - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Atheism - Philip Pullman
Society Without God - Phil Zuckerman
Mennonite Memoir - Rhoda Janzen
Jehovah's Witness - Tony Dushane

08/29/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-08-29-A

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ON RUNNING
Barefoot Running - Christopher McDougal
Running Science - Gretchen Reynolds
Barefoot Marathoner - Jason Robillard
Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Hour 2

 

10-08-29-B
(was 09-09-27-A)

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NATIONAL PARKS
Park History - William Cronon
Buffalo Soldiers - James Mills
Conservation Refugees - Mark Dowie
Alaska's Parks - Richard Nelson

September 2010
09/05 09/12 09/19 09/26

09/05/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-09-05-A

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SUPERHEROES
Physics of Superheroes - James Kakalios
New Wonder Woman - Jim Lee
Her Superpowers - Aimee Mullins
The 99 - Naif Al-Mutawa

Hour 2

 

10-09-05-B
(was 09-09-06-A)

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WELCOME TO THE WORKING WEEK
World as Corporation - Douglas Rushkoff
Value of Work - Matthew Crawford
Coffee Shop Waitresses - Candacy Taylor
Gravedigger's Memoir - Charles Wilkins

09/12/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-09-12-A

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TRICKSTER
Trickster Myths - Lewis Hyde
Wolf & Coyote - Eileen Kane
Carlos Castenada - Robert Marshall
Coen Brothers - Erica Rowell

Hour 2

 

10-09-12-B

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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Generational Writer - Laura Miller
Infinite Jest - DT Max
Oblivion - DFW
Time Remembers - Lev Grossman
Rolling Stone - David Lipsky
The Pale King - Michael Pietsch
Pale King reading - Carrie Coon
I'll Never Do Again - DFW
Sister's Memories - Amy Wallace-Havens
Kenyon Commencement - DFW

09/19/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-09-19-A
(was 09-12-06-A)

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CHANGING CLIMATE CHANGE
Whole Earth Discipline - Stewart Brand
Anti-Nuke Essay - Paxus Calta
Vanishing Face of Gaia - James Lovelock
Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Yes Men Fix the World - Andy Bichlbaum

Hour 2

 

10-09-19-B
(was 09-11-22-B)

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CHANNELING CREATIVITY
Everyone is Artistic - Lynda Barry
Adland - James Othmer
Inspiring Art - Pattie Boyd
Genius - Geoffrey Colvin

09/26/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-09-26-A

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THE UNIVERSE
"The Grand Design" - Leonard Mlodinow
"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" - Charles Yu
"The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics" - James Kakalios
Science and Religion - John Polkinghorne
"Physics of the Impossible"- Michio Kaku

Hour 2

 

10-09-26-B
(was 08-06-01-A)

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NATURE STORIES
Whale Songs - David Rothenberg
Insect Photos - Jennifer Angus
Collecting Butterflies - Anne Fadiman
Nature Writing - David Gessner
Hummingbirds - Christopher Benfey

     


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