Composers at Cabrillo: Hannah Lash, Missy Mazzoli and Nico Muhly
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music brings together some of the best and brightest...
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Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on “The Look of Silence”
Viewers of Joshua Oppenheimer’s jaw-dropping documentary "The Act of Killing," about the men who...
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The Civil War Isn’t Over: David Blight and Tony Horwitz
I used to think that the Civil War ended at Appomattox. But the next 150 years of conflict –...
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Racial Passing in the USA: Historian Allyson Hobbs
The recent case of Rachel Dolezal – the “black” activist outed as white – may have seemed novel,...
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Sara Solovitch: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright
Sara Solovitch grew up playing classical piano, a dedicated student and aspiring performer. But...
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Astronomer Robert Kirshner: Supernovas, Dark Energy and The Fate of the Universe
Astronomer Robert Kirshner is an expert in supernovae – those spectacular exploding stars that...
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Writer-Illustrator Sydney Padua: Babbage, Lovelace and the First Computer
A century before the first electronic computers, there was the Analytical Engine, a giant,...
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Biophysicist Jeremy England: A New Theory of Evolution
We know life is made of molecules, but how did those molecules come together in the first place?...
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Philosopher John Searle on Perception, Mind, Matter and Consciousness
One of America’s most prominent philosophers says his field has been tilting at windmills for...
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Kazuo Ishiguro: “The Buried Giant,” Memory, Lies and Forgetting
Kazuo Ishiguro returns to the show to talk about his first novel in 10 years. The Buried Giant...
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Black Hole Mischief: Is Relativity in Trouble?
It wasn’t long after Einstein amazed the world with his theory of general relativity in 1915 that...
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Eugene S. Robinson: Fighting, Writing, Rocking and Ass-Kicking
Eugene Robinson has been a body builder, disco dance instructor, streetfighter, bouncer,...
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Physicist Max Tegmark: Mathematics and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Just as some of us are getting used to the idea of the multiverse, along comes Max Tegmark...
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The War on Body Hair: Historian Rebecca Herzig
Tweezing, shaving, waxing, corrosive chemicals, hormones, radiation, electrolysis, lasers and now...
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Plato Lives! Rebecca Goldstein on Why Philosophy Still Matters (Re-run)
(From March 2014) Rebecca Goldstein says some of her best friends are “philosophy jeerers,”...
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Naturalist and snake expert Harry Greene (Re-run)
(From Feb 2014) Harry Greene is a much-admired natural historian and herpetologist with a soft...
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General Relativity for Beginners with Anthony Aguirre. Pt. 2 of 2 (Re-run)
Cosmologist Anthony Aguirre and I continue our jaunt through General Relativity. Last week we...
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General Relativity for Beginners with Anthony Aguirre. Pt. 1 of 2 (Re-run)
It was Einstein’s greatest idea, and one of the most audacious leaps of scientific imagination...
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Comic Book Artist Dean Haspiel: Superheroes, Antiheroes, Fantasy and Autobiography
If you’re going to tell cool stories in comic books, it helps to have had a colorful life and...
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Jonathan Gottschall: "The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch"
Jonathan Gottschall’s career as a college English prof was on the rocks, and he was desperate to...
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