What if every state, county, city, and municipality claiming to be broke was in fact running a billion or a trillion dollar budget surplus? Walter Burien discusses Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) and presents his solution for retiring the income tax.
Celebrities draw attention to the bright side of being creative, but few people are willing to really talk about the other side: rejection, not fitting in, and politics which act as roadblocks to creativity. Emmy-nominated composer Joseph Curiale tells all in an enlightening conversation.
George Swanson
Buildings in Europe and Asia have been known to last from 300 to 3,000 years. Why do American buildings last only 30? According to George Swanson, the problem is that our buildings are usually made of cheap, harmful, subsidized chemicals.
On June 6th 2012, Venus made her last transit in front of the Sun until 2117. Dr. Tim Ball returns to the show to celebrate the 54th observation of the transit of Venus with a colorful history of our “sister planet”.
The world has lived under the shadow of AIDS since it was officially recognized by the CDC in 1981. Joan Shenton, the producer of Positively False: Birth of a Heresy, lays out the devastating social impact of the HIV/AIDS myth in this controversial and enlightening interview.
