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Title: Charlie Rose: Lee Kuan Yew, March 28, 2011

Author: Charlie Rose

Narrator: Charlie Rose

Format: Original Recording

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-11

Publisher: Charlie Rose Show

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

A conversation Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades. By the time he chose to step down to enable a stable leadership renewal, he had become the worlds longest-serving Prime Minister. [Broadcast Date: March 28, 2011]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Michael Lewis, February 1, 2011

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-11

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Bob talks with Michael Lewis about his book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Its a look at the mortgage crisis and the few visionaries who saw it coming and made a fortune. His book is now available in paperback. [Broadcast Date: February 1, 2011]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Procrastination

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-11

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

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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In this hour, we explore the painful costs and unexpected benefits of procrastination. Piers Steel describes himself as a semi-reformed procrastinator. He is an authority on the science of motivation and teaches at the University of Calgary. He's the author of The Procrastination Equation and tells Jim Fleming getting past procrastination is not as easy as it sounds.

Then, Patrician Person is an award-winning Canadian novelist and journalist, whose books include A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine. In her audio essay she also confesses she is a procrastinator.

Next, Jennifer Baker is a philosopher at the College of Chrleston and the author of a recent essay called Procrastination as Vice. She tells Steve Paulson how a philosopher became interested in procrastination.

After that, Chrisoula Andreou is a philosopher at the University of Utah who also contributed an essay to The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Prorcastination, of which she is co-editor. She talked with Anne Strainchamps about coping with procrastination.

Following that, Geoff Dyer is the author of Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence. We hear Jim Fleming read a passage about schemes for avoiding the writing of it.

And finally, Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page. He talks with Steve Paulson about a chapter on procrastination from his book Catch and Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life. [Broadcast Date: January 26, 2011]

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Title: Science and the Search for Meaning - Part Three: Does the "Soul" Still Matter?

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-10

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

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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In this hour, Keith Ward is a prominent theologian and philosopher at Oxford University and the University of London. His books include In Defense of the Soul and The Big Questions in Science and Religion. Ward talks about the soul with Steve Paulson.

Next, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano tells Steve Paulson that our ideas about spirits and the soul can be entirely explained by new insights from brain science. Graziano's book is God, Soul, Mind, Brain.

Then, Anne Strainchamps asks Columbia College philosopher Stephen Asma what his colleagues make of the soul these days.

After that, we hear a story from Elna Baker, author of The New York Regional, Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. And, Parker Palmer tells Jim Fleming why the soul still matters in an age of science. Palmer is an author, educator and founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal. His books include Teaching with Heart and Soul.

Following that, some ordinary people give us their takes on the soul, then Nancey Murphy talks with Steve Paulson. Murphy is a professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary. She tells Steve Paulson Christians would be better off without the soul.

And finally, novelist Marilynne Robinson talks with Anne Strainchamps about the role of the soul in the age of modern science. Robinson's novels include Gilead and Home. [Broadcast Date: December 8, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Science and the Search for Meaning - Part Two: What Does Evolution Want?

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-10

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

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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In this hour, is there some design intention behind the apparently random choices made by the evolutionary process? That's the intriguing question explored this hour. Steve Paulson visits with renowned British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris in his office at Cambridge University in England to talk about Morris's radical idea that humans, or something like them, were the inevitable outcome of the appearance of life on earth.

Next, historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards tells Steve Paulson that Charles Darwin himself believed evolution marches inevitably toward greater complexity.

Then, Ruth Padel is an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendent of Charles Darwin. She's now written Darwin: A Life in Poems, having grown up hearing stories about her famous ancestor. She talks about it with Jim Fleming, and reads some of her poems.

After that, John Haught is a Roman Catholic theologian at Georgetown University, and the author of God After Darwin and God and the New Atheism. Haught talks with Steve Paulson about his theology of evolution.

And finally, paleo-anthropologist John Hawks shows Anne Strainchamps around his lab at the University o Wisconsin and they talk about how human beings have evolved since their cave man days, and how the process is continuing. [Broadcast Date: December 1, 2010]

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Title: Charlie Rose: Eric Kandel, Stephen Warren, Kay Redfield Jamison, Elyn Saks, and Helen Mayberg, September 2, 2010

Author: Charlie Rose

Narrator: Charlie Rose

Format: Original Recording

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-10

Publisher: Charlie Rose Show

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

A Rebroadcast of Charlie Rose's Brain Series, Episode Nine, with Eric Kandel, Stephen Warren, Kay Redfield Jamison, Elyn Saks, Jeffrey Lieberman, and Helen Mayberg. [Broadcast Date: September 2, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Anxiety

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-10

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

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

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We look at anxiety and mental illness, and the globalization of the American psyche. Patricia Pearson is the author of A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine. She tells Anne Strainchamps why she thinks Americans are so anxious.

Ethan Watters has just written a book called Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. He argues that American versions of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders are spreading around the world. He tells Steve Paulson that America has a big influence on how people perceive mental illness. Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis. He tells Steve Paulson about his book Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry A Doctor's Revelations about a Profession in Crisis.

Brian Kane teaches Music Theory at Yale and is fascinated by the role that sound plays in Franz Kafka's fiction. He tells Jim Fleming about a presentation he gave last year at Columbia. It was all about "acousmatic sound". [Broadcast Date: July 9, 2010]

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Dancing About Architecture: Arts Criticism

Author: Jim Fleming

Format: Original Recording

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-10

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

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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In this hour, Manohla Dargis is co-chief film critic for the New York Times. She talks with Steve Paulson about the role of film criticism in contemporary society.

Next, Robert Palmer was a music critic and musician. Yoko Ono said she, Palmer and John Lennon "touched each other's spirit." Palmer's fellow critic, Anthony DeCurtis, has edited a new book called Blues and Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer.

Then, Palmer's daughter, Augusta Palmer, recently made a documentary about her father called The Hand of Fatima. In a rare joint interview, DeCurtis and Palmer talk with Steve Paulson about Robert Palmer and his work.

After that, Geeta Dayal is the author of Another Green World. It's a short book about Brian Eno's 1975 album of the same name. Eno used a deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards to create the album. He created these cards with his friend, the late artist Peter Schmidt. The cards contain phrases like "Honor thy error as a hidden intention." Dayal also used them to help write her book and talks about it with Jim Fleming.

Finally, in the early 1970s, John Mendelsohn wrote for Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times and recorded for Warner Brothers Records as a member of the band Christopher Milk. Now he has a new CD called Sorry We're Open. Mendelsohn talks with Anne Strainchamps and we hear what he's up to now musically. [Broadcast Date: April 23, 2010]

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Title: Lloyd Pye: Where Did We Come From?

Author: Lloyd Pye

Narrator: Theo Chalmers

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-10

Publisher: Reality Entertainment

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Did man really evolve from apes? Where is all the missing data? We have only dozens of bones to work with, and yet our entire evolutionary theory is based upon them. Is there another answer to the emergence of the amazing species we call man? Could we have been genetically manipulated by an alien race many thousands of years ago? Are we some kind of strange galactic experiment?

These questions and many more are put to the test by Lloyd Pye, an expert in evolutionary theory from alien genetic manipulation. Pye has spoken across the world and written several books on the subject. His work is highly influential in the genre. Now you can hear from him in this film and learn about his insights.

Discover that the world is stranger than any X-Files plot! Meet Lloyd Pye and the origin of our species.

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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge

Subtitle: The Wonder of Physics

Author: Jim Fleming

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-10

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

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In this hour, physicist Richard Muller has written a book called Physics for Future Presidents. He tells Jim Fleming that the President shouldn't rely on his science advisors to explain what a dirty bomb is or why clean coal is important. Muller says only the President understands the broader context within which scientific policy decision must be made.

Next, Robert Laughlin tells Steve Paulson that physicists are an eccentric bunch. He should know. Laughlin is a Nobel Prize winning physicist at Stanford and the author of A Different Universe andThe Crime of Reason, and the Closing of the Scientific Mind.

Then, Steve Paulson introduces us to Mark Oliver Everett, better known as "E" - lead singer of the Eels, and son of Hugh Everett, the man who came up with the theory of parallel worlds. Mark never really knew his father, but served as the narrator for a documentary about him (Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives) produced by the BBC for release in the U.S. by PBS in the WGBH NOVA series. We hear Mark's music, excerpts from the film, and Mark's reflections on his father's life and what they share. Mark is also the author of a memoir, Things the Grandchildren Should Know.

After that, Rebecca Stott lives in Cambridge, England, and made it the setting of her novel, Ghostwalk. The book is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy. Stott reads an excerpt for Anne Strainchamps and talks with her about aspects of the quantum world and its possible effects on ours.

Finally, A. Van Jordan has put together a collection of poems about physics. Quantum Lyrics touches on the lives of famous physicists like Einstein and Richard Feynman, and uses comic book heroes like The Green Lantern and The Flash. The poet reads some of his work, and talks about it with Steve Paulson. [Broadcast Date: January 29, 2010]