08-01-13-A

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THE POLITICS OF AUDACITY
NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr on the history of the presidential lie.
Historian Jean Edward Smith on one of the most audacious moves in political history – the famed FDR Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.
Director Rachel Boynton on her documentary "Our Brand is Crisis. It is a film about the political consultants James Carville and Jeremy Rosner and how they help elect Bolivia's president.
Journalist Matt Taibbi on the privatization of the US military.

08-01-13-B
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BEFRIENDING YOUR BRAIN
Marti Leimbach is an autism activist and the successful author of the novel of Daniel isn't Talking
Kamran Nazeer has autism and wrote Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism.
Dave King's book The Ha-Ha is about a Vietnam Vet with brain damage who has to take care of his girlfriend's son.
Claude Coleman was the drummer for the cult rock group WEEN when he was involved in a car crash that left him brain-damaged.
John Sedgwick was born into the historic and prominent Boston Sedgwick family. He seems to have inherited the family tendency toward mental instability

08-02-03-A

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HILLARY, BARACK & THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM
Drew Westin says Democrats need to speak to voters emotions
Economist Paul Krugman makes an attempt to redefine liberalism
New Yorker Editor Susan Morrison collects multiple visions of Hillary Clinton, including views from writers Lorrie Moore and Daphne Merkin Randall Kennedy writes about what he calls the politics of racial betrayal

08-02-03-B

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TO SPRAWL OR NOT TO SPRAWL
Joel Hirschhorn views sprawl as a danger to society
Robert Bruegmann believes sprawl is inevitable and may even be good for us
Jennifer Baichwal documents Chinese sprawl
Tom Perotta is a novelist who writes about suburbia

08-02-10-A
(was 07-03-11-A)

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IN THE PRESENCE OF EVIL
African Child-Soldier - Ishamel Beah
Kids at Risk Here, Too - Elizabeth George
Klemperer Diaries - George Bartenieff
Stalinist Russia - Martin Amis

08-02-10-B
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08-02-17-A
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FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
Ron Mallett talks about time travel
Fleda Brown discusses the poetry of physics
Leo Duran, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Cassutt explain their enthusiasm for sci-fi tv
Chris Jones talks about space travel
Paul Davies imagines a bio-friendly universe

08-02-17-B

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TALKING PICTURES
Eric Lax is the author of "On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy."
Jeanine Basinger explores the studio star system
J.J. Murphy is Professor of Film in the Department of Communication Arts at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Will Russell, a magician, and artist Scott Shuffitt are the Founding Dudes of Lebowski Fest.

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

08-02-24-B

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A GOOD DEATH?
Ed Wohl reminisces about music and his father's death
Surgeon Pauline Chen reflects on mortality
Susan Sontag is remembered by her son David Rieff
David Shields knows that death is a sure thing

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

08-03-02-B

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CONSCIOUSNESS
Conciousness Debate - Andrew Newberg, Daniel Dennett, Ken Wilber, Roger Penrose, Deepak Chopra
Female Brain - Louann Brizendine
Buddhism & Consciousness - Alan Wallace
Autistic Savant - Daniel Tammet

08-03-09-A

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LEARNING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Jonathan Mooney is president of Project Eye-to-Eye, a nonprofit mentoring and advocacy organization for students with learning disabilities. He's the author of "The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal"
Formerly of the rock band, The Del Fuegos, Dan Zanes is children's singer/songwriter. His latest CD is called "Dan Zanes and Friends." He collaborates with other musicians, such as Natalie Merchant, The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Kronos Quartet.
Matt Hern is an advocate for alternative education. He's the author of "Field Day" and editor of "De-Schooling Our Lives."
Michael Piechowski studies the inner lives of gifted and talented children. His book is called "Mellow Out, They Say. If I Only Could."
Sherman Alexie wrote a book to teach his kids about war.

08-03-09-B
(was 07-02-04-B)

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BOREDOM: The Tedium is the Message
Philosophy of Boredom - Lars Svendsen
Ode to Boredom (Jon Winokur's "Ennui to Go")
A Case of Boredom - Ghita Schwarz
Fascination with Boredom - Augustin De la Pena

08-03-16-A

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LANGUAGE: THE DRESS OFTHOUGHT
Elizabeth Little is a writer and editor living in New York City. She has worked as a literary agent and as a writer and editor for the travel guide, "Let's Go: China," and her writing has appeared in "The New York Times." This is her first book.
Larry Smith is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of SMITH Magazine, an online publication. He most recently was the articles editor of "Mens Journal," has been the executive editor of "Yahoo! Internet Life," senior editor at "ESPN The Magazine, a founding editor of "P.O.V.," and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, "Egg," as well as an editor of "Might" magazine.
Rachel Fershleiser edits SMITH Magazine's "Memoirville" section and the "PopuLIST." She's worked in theatre and book publishing and is now a freelance writer and Housing Works Bookstore staffer.
Derek Bickerton is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of two books on Creole languages, "Dynamics of a Creole System," and "Roots of Language," as well as three on the origin and evolution of language, and four novels.
Rick Moranis is an actor and comedian. He's just released an album of country music

08-03-16-B
(was 07-04-29-A)

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AGING & MEMORY
Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel has spent a lifetime studying memory
Host Jim Fleming talks about his aging father
Claire Tomalin's biography of Thomas Hardy reveals the inspiration he received from his wife's death
Rodney Rothman retired at 28 - sort of
Mary Rose O'Reilly talks about the archaeology of memory

08-03-23-A

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TALKING ACROSS RELIGIONS
Tariq Ali - Culture of Tolerance
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner, The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding
Bruce Chilton - Abraham's Curse - interpretations of the sacrifice of Isaac
Peter Bebergal & Scott Korb - A Jew and a Catholic Search for the Meaning of God

08-03-23-B
(was 07-04-01-A)

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POP MUSIC
Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gayle F. Wald
Pub Rock - Will Birch
Alternative Rock Novel - Jonathan Lethem

08-03-30-A

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THE NEW ABOLITIONISTS
Former Slave - Maria Suarez
International Slave Markets - Benjamin Skinner
Abolitionist History - Adam Hochschild
Slave Trade Legacy - Katrina Browne
Social Capitalism - Muhammad Yunus

08-03-30-B
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FORBIDDEN FOOD
Bizarre Foods - Andrew Zimmern
Gospel of Food - Barry Glassner
Fierce Food - Christa Weil
Chocolate - Mort Rosenblum
Baking at Home - Dorie Greenspan