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Title: Studio 360: Björks Biophilia and Creative Savants

Author: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-11

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

This week, Bjork releases an album too advanced for a CD: each track is also an interactive app. Kurt heads down to Wall Street with an architecture critic to see how protestors have created the space theyre occupying. And our reporter seeks a shortcut to creative ability, talking to scientists who study how savants do what they do. [Broadcast Date: October 15, 2011]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Universe

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-11

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, Stephen Hawking is shaking the universe again with his new book, The Grand Design, which says that you can explain the existence of everything without requiring God. Steve Paulson talks with Hawking's co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow about how they wrote the book and what it really says, and doesn't say.

Then, Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Charles Yu is one of the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award winners. He talks about his book with Anne Strainchamps.

Next, James Kakalios tracked down some astonishing (but true!) examples in his book, The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics. He told Jim Fleming that without quantum physics, we wouldn't have ipods or CD players or laptops, and that some of the early quantum physicists were inspired by science fiction.

After that, John Polkinghorne is a former quantum physicist professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge University. He's also an ordained Anglican priest, Canon Theologian at Liverpool Cathedral in England, and author of many books on the subject of bridging the gap between science and religion.

And finally, Michio Kaku is the author of many books, most recently - "Physics of the Impossible: a Scientific Exploration Into the world of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel." Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer. [Broadcast Date: October 14, 2011]

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Title: Charlie Rose: Al Hunt, Mark Halperin, Martin Smith, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Billy Crudup, May 23, 2011

Author: Charlie Rose

Narrator: Charlie Rose

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-11

Publisher: Charlie Rose Show

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

A look at the 2012 Presidential Race with Al Hunt, Thomas DeFrank, and Mark Halperin. Next, a look at Frontline's WikiSecrets" with Martin Smith. And a conversation about the film Too Big to Fail with Andrew Ross Sorkin, James Woods and Billy Crudup. [Broadcast Date: May 23, 2011]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Other Worlds

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-11

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, when you're fed up with our world, take a mental holiday. We do. There are other worlds you can visit, like the one Patrick Rothfuss created and turned into a best-selling phenomenon. His first novel The Name of the Wind climbed its way to the top of the list. His second novel The Wise Man's Fear, started there. He tells Jim Fleming how the world came into being.

Then, another world you might try is the past. In Connie Willis' world historians can actually go there to study. In two new novels, Blackout and All Clear Willis takes us to World War II. She tells Anne Strainchamps why the past is a natural subject for a science fiction writer.

Next, the past is a fascinating place to visit, especially when you consider how little it would take to make it an entirely different place. Political analyst Jeff Greenfield has lived through fifty years of world history, and knows first hand how small things matter. He tells Jim Fleming about his novel Then Everything Changed.

Finally, are alternative universes purely the stuff of make believe? Or could they actually exist? Recent discoveries in physics and cosmology have led many scientists to consider the possibility that our world is one among many. Certainly physicist Brian Greene thinks so. He makes the case in his new book The Hidden Reality Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. Steve Paulson finds it all a little puzzling. [Broadcast Date: May 4, 2011]

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Title: Studio 360: The Battle of Dixie & Robbie Robertson

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-11

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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One hundred fifty years after the start of the Civil War, a musical revolution continues to divide America: why are we still fighting over the song Dixie? Robbie Robertson tells Kurt Andersen about another revolution going electric with Dylan. And Kurt asks a documentary filmmaker about the arrest of the artist Ai Weiwei. Chinas most famous artist internationally, Ai has found clever, headline-grabbing ways to critique the Chinese regime, and now the government is striking back. [Broadcast Date: April 16, 2011]

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Title: Studio 360: Salman Rushdie & Jimi Hendrix

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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When it came to writing his new children's book, Luka and the Fire of Life, the novelist Salman Rushdie stuck with his attraction to moody themes. "I've always liked writing that slightly writes against the grain of what it's supposed to be doing," he tells Kurt. "So if it's a kind of dark thing you try to make it black comedy."

Next, Marc Branch works at NASA as an aerospace engineer testing instruments used on outer-space telescopes. When he's off the clock, Branch is one of the most sought after hip-hop DJs around the country. Leading a double life as "DJ Scientific" he hopes to attract young hip-hop fans to math and science.

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix's performance of the national anthem at Woodstock hit like a shock wave; with its distortion and chaos, it sounded like a rupture in something sacred. Two music scholars and two rock guitarists put together the pieces. [Broadcast Date: November 20, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Singular Brains

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-10

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, Lizzie Gottlieb has a younger brother with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. She made a film, Today's Man, about his abortive efforts to get a job and move out of his parents' brownstone in New York. Both Lizzie and Nicky Gottlieb talk with Steve Paulson about the film and the problems of adult Aspergians. And we hear a clip from the film, which has aired on the PBS series, Independent Lens.

Next, John Elder Robison, whose younger brother is the writer Augusten Burroughs, did not get his diagnosis of Asperger's until he was in his 40s. He tells Anne Strainchamps how he manages to function in society, and what he remembers from the household chronicled in his brother's book, Running with Scissors. John Elder Robison's memoir is called Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's.

Then, Howard Dully was twelve when he underwent a trans-orbital lobotomy. He tells his story in a book called My Lobotomy: A Memoir, which he has written with Charles Fleming. He talks with Jim Fleming about why he had the operation and how he has come to terms with it in the years since. We also hear excerpts from the 1995 Sound Portraits documentary heard on NPR.

And finally, Oliver Sacks talks with Steve Paulson about some of the case studies in his latest book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. He concludes that despite how much we learn, we may never understand how the brain works. [Broadcast Date: November 5, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Challenge Climate Change

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-10

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, says it's time to get pragmatic about managing climate change. He tells Anne Strainchamps why he no longer opposes nuclear power and they discuss other aspects of his new philosophy. His new book is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.

Next, many in the environmental movement disagree with Brand. Paxus Calta is one. He's been an anti-nuclear activist for over 30 years. He gives his reasons for his position. Calta is Chair of the board of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, an umbrella organization of some 300 grass-roots organizations.

Then, James Lovelock created the Gaia Theory. His latest book is The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. Lovelock tells Steve Paulson that our planet is a self-regulating system that will carry on without people and that it is too late to reverse global warming. Humanity will just have to live with the consequences, if it can.

After that, novelist Margaret Atwood talks about her latest book, The Year of the Flood, with Steve Paulson. The book posits a new religion formed after most life on Earth has been obliterated.

And finally, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action. A collection of these actions comprise the documentary film The Yes Men Fix the World. Jim Fleming talks with Andy Bichlbaum and we hear excerpts from the film. [Broadcast Date: September 22, 2010]

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Title: Studio 360: Stewart Copeland & Zee Avi

Author: Kurt Andersen

Narrator: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Sting may have been the front man, but drummer Stewart Copeland was the heartbeat of The Police. In his memoir Strange Things Happen Copeland talks about how the bands creative friction helped sell over 50 million records. And he blows the cover on his father, who raised the young Copeland in Beirut while spying for the CIA.

Then, a year after releasing her critically-acclaimed debut album, Malaysian singer-songwriter Zee Avi has a new EP. Perhaps the only Borneo-born ukulele player to get a major record deal through YouTube, Zee Avi talks with Kurt about her music and performs live in the studio.

Finally, for over twenty years the Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital stored the cremated remains of patients in copper containers. Photographer David Maisel found them, and shows the beautiful and bizarre chemical reactions that took place as the canisters corroded in his exhibit "Library of Dust," currently at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. Produced by Sarah Lilley. [Broadcast Date: September 4, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: National Parks

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-10

Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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In this hour, William Cronon directs the University of Wisconsin's Center for Culture, History and the Environment. He tells Steve Paulson that national parks intended for the masses are a 19th century invention and a distinctly American one. Also, the early national parks were patrolled and protected by the American Cavalry. Ken Burns explains their role in a brief excerpt from his latest PBS series, then, independent producer James Mills follows up on Ken Burns' remarks about the Buffalo Soldiers and looks into the issue of why so few African-Americans visit the national Parks today.

Next, Journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Conservation Refugees: The Hundred Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. Dowie tells Steve Paulson about a recent confrontation between a Masai leader and several thousand environmentalists gathered for a conference. He also provides examples of conservation projects involving native peoples that actually work.

Then, Anthropologist and naturalist Richard Nelson lives in Alaska and is the host of a public radio program called Encounters. Nelson hikes through the Alaskan wilderness recording sounds you can't hear anywhere else, and he plays excerpt during this conversation with Anne Strainchamps. There's a link to his radio show at ttbook.org.

And finally, Nevada Barr has written 15 mystery novels featuring Park Ranger Anna Pigeon. She tells Jim Fleming that despite Anna's fictional adventures, the National Parks are safe places, and wildly different from each other. Barr's latest book is 13 . [Broadcast Date: September 3, 2010]