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OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2010

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from Wisconsin Public Radio

October 2010
10/03 10/10 10/17 10/24 10/31

10/03/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-10-03-A

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SOUNDTRACK TO WAR AND PEACE
Black Nature - Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars
Dwight Reynolds - Music at Al-Andalus
Angelique Kidjo - The Sounds of Benin
Beveryly Lapp - Mennonites & National Anthem
Harvey Sachs - Politics of Beethoven's 9th

Hour 1

 

10-10-03-B

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MYSTERIES OF CHILDHOOD
Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz
Imagination - Ellen Handler Spitz
Kids and Creativity - Michael Chabon
Little Rebels - Julia Mickenberg

10/10/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-10-10-A
(was 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 1

 

10-10-10-B
(was 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

10/17/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-10-17-A

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ
Hamlet's Blackberry - William Powers
War Memoir - Patrick Hennessey
Hitler's Library - Timothy Ryback
Asian English - Amitav Ghosh

Hour 1

 

10-10-17-A
(was 09-12-13-A)

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LOVE/HATE
Hating Tennis - Andre Agassi
Soldiers in Iraq - David Finkel
Sex & Death - Tyler Volk & Dorion Sagan
Husband's Suicide - Laura Waterman

10/24/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-10-24-A

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CULTURAL COMMONS
Intellectual Property - Lewis Hyde
Configurable Culture - Aram Sinnreich
Good Ideas - Steven Johnson
Remixing Moby Dick - Ricardo Pitts-Wiley

Hour 1

 

10-10-24-B

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RED TOOTH, RED CLAW
The Tiger - John Vailiant
Giant Waves - Susan Casey
Dangerous Animals - Gordon Grice
Kayaking in Alaska - David Abram

10/31/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-10-31-A
(was 09-12-20-A)

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MAGIC
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Parapsychology - Stephen Braude
Math & Magic - Persi Diaconis
Wicca - Anne Strainchmaps, Caryl Owen, Margot Adler
Occult America - Mitch Horowitz

Hour 1

 

10-10-31-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

November 2010
11/07 11/14 11/21 11/28

11/07/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-11-07-A

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TELLING THE DIFFICULT STORY
Memoir of Terror - Jessica Stern
Hiroshima - Rahna Riko Rizzuto
Human Resilience - Ingird Betancourt
StoryCorps - David Isay

Hour 1

 

10-11-07-B
(was 10-01-10-B)

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REALITY
Chronic City - Jonathan Leethem
Unabomber Philosophy - Chuck Klosterman
JG Ballard's World - V. Vale
The Simulated Universe - Brent Silby

11/14/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-11-14-A

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INTEGRATION STORIES
Hidden Racial Past - Michelle Norris
Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
Class Differences - Toni Morrison
The Bid Whist Ladies
Hip-Hop Culture - Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hour 1

 

10-11-14-B

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MY MUSICAL LIFE
Musical Legacy- Rosanne Cash
Musical Van Gogh - Diederick Van Eck
Devo - Gerald Casale
Duran Duran - Rob Sheffield

11/21/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-11-21-A

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SCIENCE & THE SEARCH FOR MEANING:
5 QUESTIONS

PART ONE - WHAT IS LIFE?

Schrodinger on "What is Life?" - Ken Miller, James Watson, Harold Varmus, Craig Venter
Non-life to Life - Nita Sahai
Gaia - James Lovelock
Evolving Technology - Kevin Kelly
Second Life - Tom Boellstorff
Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Paul Davies

Hour 1

 

10-11-21-B

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UPCYCLING
Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard
TerraCycle - Tom Szaky
Makers Upcycling - Mark Frauenfelder
Found Filmmaker Bruce Conner - David Sterritt

11/28/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
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10-11-28-A

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SCIENCE & THE SEARCH FOR MEANING:
5 QUESTIONS

PART TWO: WHAT DOES EVOLUTION WANT?

Human Inevitability - Simon Conway Morris
Darwin on Progress - Robert Richards
Darwin Poems - Ruth Padel
Theology of Evolution - John Haught
Human Evolution Speeding Up - John Hawks

Hour 1

 

10-11-28-B
(was 09-11-29-A)

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LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET: CONSUMERISM
Branding - Rob Walker
Mad Men - Chuck Klosterman
Discount Culture - Ellen Ruppel Shell
Scroogenomics - Joel Waldfogel
Andy Warhol - David Dalton

December 2010
12/05 12/12 12/19 12/26

12/05/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-12-05-A

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SCIENCE & THE SEARCH FOR MEANING:
5 QUESTIONS
PART THREE: DOES THE SOUL STILL MATTER?
Soul as Mind - Keith Ward
Neuroscience - Michael Graziano
Skeptics on the Soul - Stephen Asma
Mormon Storyteller - Elna Baker
Soul Matters - Parker Palmer
Forget Soul - Nancey Murphy
Novelist on Soul - Marilynne Robinson

Hour 1

 

10-12-05-B

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FAMILY LIFE DECISIONS
Fetal Origins - Annie Murphy Paul
Daughter's Anorexia - Harriet Brown
How We Decide - Johnah Lehrer
In Praise of Adoption - Scott Simon

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

 

10-12-12-A

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SCIENCE & THE SEARCH FOR MEANING:
5 QUESTIONS

PART FOUR: CAN ISLAM AND SCIENCE COEXIST?
Scholar Roundup with Steve Paulson -
Taner Edis, Ziauddin Sarder, Nidhal Guessoum
Iranian in Space - Anousheh Ansari
Muslim Creationist - Harum Yahya
Rumi - Coleman Barks

Hour 1

 

10-12-12-B

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WHY DO WE LOVE SAD SONGS?
Barber's Adagio - Thomas Larson
Minor Third - Meagan Curtis
Sad Country - Bill Malone
Bach's Cello - Eric Siblin

12/19/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-12-19-A

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SCIENCE & THE SEARCH FOR MEANING:
5 QUESTIONS

Part 5: Can Science Be Sacred?
Round-up of Scientists
Global Forest - Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Sacred Physics - Arthur Zajonc
Orangutans - Birute Galdikas
Becoming Animal - David Abram

Hour 1

 

10-12-19-B

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USES OF ENCHANTMENT
Faery Tale - Signe Pike
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Luka & the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt

12/26/2010 Program # TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1

 

10-12-26-A
(was 10-01-03-B)

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THE COURSE OF TIME
Organic Time - Brian Swimme
Astronomical Legends - Thebe Medupe
End Time - Jim Crace
Time Travel - Ron Mallett
Time Poet - Fleda Brown

Hour 1

 

10-12-26-B
(was 10-01-03-A)

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CHANGE OVER TIME
Slow Down - Carl Honore
Aging Gracefully - Amy Gorman
Centering Prayer - Father Thomas Keating
Autobiography - Lera Auerbach
Thomas Hardy - Claire Tomalin
Reflections - Diana Athill

 

     


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