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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

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Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller
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Where readers meet writers, Fridays at 11 a.m. Listen live or stream later on your favorite podcast app.

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Emily St. John Mandel on time travel, destiny and what might have been

Emily St. John Mandel on time travel, destiny and what might have been

The best-selling author of “Station Eleven” and “The Glass Hotel” is back with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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From the archives: Physicist Lisa Randall on dark matter, meteoroids and the demise of the dinosaurs

From the archives: Physicist Lisa Randall on dark matter, meteoroids and the demise of the dinosaurs

This Friday, MPR News host Kerri Miller talks with Emily St. John Mandel about her much-anticipated and just released novel “Sea of Tranquility.” It asks some big philosophical and science fiction questions about time travel. So as a throwback, we thought you’d enjoy this 2015 conversation with astrophysicist Lisa Randall, who says there’s a closer parallel between imagination and science than you might guess.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Mary-Frances O'Connor on 'The Grieving Brain'

Mary-Frances O'Connor on 'The Grieving Brain'

More than 50 years ago, Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced the world to the five stages of grief, a model that shaped how many of us approach bereavement. But neuroscience is widening the lens. Mary-Frances O’Connor details how grief rewires the brain in her new book, and why we often struggle to accept the loss.
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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From the archives: Writer Max Porter on 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers'

From the archives: Writer Max Porter on 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers'

This Friday, MPR News host Kerri Miller will talk with renowned grief expert and neuroscientist Mary-Frances O'Connor about happens in our brains when we grieve. But novels teach us just as much as science. In anticipation of the coming show, enjoy this one from the 2016 archives, when Miller talked with writer Max Porter about his debut novel, “Grief is the Thing with Feathers.”
by Kerri Miller and Kelly Gordon

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Kelly Weill on why conspiracy theories are spreading faster than ever

Kelly Weill on why conspiracy theories are spreading faster than ever

Despite centuries of evidence pointing otherwise, there are still people who believe the Earth is flat — and their numbers are growing, thanks to social media and a reinvigorated culture of conspiratorial thinking. Journalist Kelly Weill has studied the flat Earth movement for years. Her new book is “Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.”
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From the archives: Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says all is not lost

From the archives: Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says all is not lost

Conspiracy theories have gone mainstream since 2020. Why are people so willing to believe almost anything and disregard science and reason? That’s Kerri Miller’s conversation coming up this Friday. In the meantime, enjoy this one from our archives. It’s a discussion with acclaimed climate scientist and evangelical Katharine Hayhoe, who knows a thing or two about dealing with folks who would rather deny than accept.
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Mesha Maren on the oft-misunderstood complexity of the southern border

Mesha Maren on the oft-misunderstood complexity of the southern border

Mesha Maren’s new novel examines the misperceptions that endure about the U.S.-Mexico border, as it follows an earnest but naïve couple who moves to the El Paso region and must grapple with a mysterious disappearance.
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From the archives: Novelist Yaa Gyasi explores addiction, immigration and family ties

From the archives: Novelist Yaa Gyasi explores addiction, immigration and family ties

As we await Friday’s show, which dives into a book about life at the southern U.S. border, enjoy a discussion Kerri Miller had in 2020 with author Yaa Gyasi which also touches on themes of identity and culture.
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From the archives: Historian Eric Foner on three constitutional amendments that altered history

From the archives: Historian Eric Foner on three constitutional amendments that altered history

In anticipation of Friday’s show about the Civil War, we’re revisiting a conversation Kerri Miller had with Pulitzer-prize winning author Eric Foner back in 2019, about how that era changed what it means to be an American.
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