Tag: Jim Fleming
Genre Busters
The fight over genre fiction -- genre busters like Michael Chabon, Richard Price and others talk about the writings that transcend genres. ...
Can noise be music?
A movement in the Japanese music underground surfaced in the 1990s to ask the same questions as avant-garde icon John Cage did in the 1950s....
Lust for life lists
There is no shortage of life-list books being published; we explore our obsession with these life-lists with some of their authors....
The origins of religion
A study of the origins of the world's great religions reveals surprising ideas about God and how we define religion....
Helping the poorest of the poor via "social business"
Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for micro-lending; now he plans to help the poorest of the poor through "social business."...
Debating Lincoln
Celebrate the 200th birthday of "Honest Abe" with a fresh look at the man, the myth and what he means today....
De-schooling our lives
Matt Hern is a Canadian advocate for alternative education -- he explains why he thinks public education should be available to everyone, but not compulsory....
Magical thinking
"The Chronicles of Narnia," Dungeons and Dragons, the secret behind "The Secret" and other alternative realities....
Musical taste
A music writer tries to get in touch with his inner Celine Dion fan -- what the experience taught him about musical taste. ...
Einstein, God and the Universe
Einstein once said 'science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind' -- a look at the science-religion debate....
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