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January 2001
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January 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

1/7/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-01-07-A THAT HEALING FEELING
Listening as Healing - Martin Winckler
Stem Cell Research - Ronald McKay
Trepanation - John Verano
Pain - Frank Vertosick
Breast Cancer Humor - Katherine Russell Rich
Hour 2 01-01-07-B DROWNING IN DATA
Faster and Faster - James Gleick
Time-Saving Tips - Doug Gordon
Data to Knowledge - Keith Devlin
The Algorithm - David Berlinski
The Great Arc - John Keay
Allure of Maps - Miles Harvey

1/14/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-01-14-A TAKING POWER
Clinton Heir of Elvis? - Greil Marcus
Presidential IQ - David Brooks
Male Cheerleaders - Jim Nelson
Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis
Parlor Politics - Cahterine Allgor
Hour 2 01-01-14-B LIVING FOR GRACE
Cult of Virgin Mary - Beverly Donofrio
Sacred Music - John Tavener
Faith and Art - Mark Salzman
Future of American Nuns - Lucy Kaylin
Critique of Organized Religion - Philip Pullman

1/21/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-01-21-A TWILIGHT ON WALL STREET
Coming Internet Depression - Michael Mandel
Inside Wall Street Media - Howard Kurtz
Day Traders - Andy Borowitz
18th Century Stock Market - David Liss
Mystery of Capital - Hernando De Soto
Hour 2 01-01-21-B COMIC BOOKS: BEYOND "THWAK!" AND "KABOOM!"
Comic Book Novel - Michael Chabon
Artbabe - Jessica Abel
Alternative Comics - Daniel Clowes
Re-inventing Comics - Scott McCloud
Dream Comics - Jesse Reklaw

1/28/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-01-28-A MEDIA MELD
Digital Convergence - Richard Siklos
Sinister Cyberspace - Caleb Carr
Luddite Films - Jerry McCarthy
Channel Surfing - Jack Lechner
Cyberfiction - Jeanette Winterson
Hour 2 01-01-28-B GENIUS
Leonardo da Vinci - Sherwin Nuland
Genius & Age - Dean Simonton
Quiz Show Ace - Leszek Pawlowicz
Virginia Woolf - Nigel Nicolson

January 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

February 2001
2/4 2/11 2/18 2/25
Febuary 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
2/4/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-02-04-A VIRTUAL EDUCATION
For On-Line Education - Mary Beth Susman
Against On-Line Education - Hank Bromley
Academic Al - Doug Gordon
Biking Professor - Greg Brock
Humanities for the Poor - Earl Shorris Commentary - Jean Feraca
Hour 2 01-02-04-B LIVING THE WRITING LIFE
The New Puritans
- Nicholas Blincoe & Matt Thorne
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Keeping a Journal - Alexandra Johnson
Journalism Satire - Neal Pollack
Teen Poetry Slams - David Yanofsky

2/11/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 99-09-19-A THE MINDS OF CHILDREN
Babies' Brains - Alison Gopnik
Mozart Effect - Steven Pinker
Kindness of Children - Vivian Paley
Picture Books - Ellen Spitz
Dr. Seuss - Henry Jenkins
Hour 2 00-01-30-B QUARKS, CHAOS, & THE PHYSICS OF FOAM
The Fourth Dimension - Clifford Pickover
Amazing Physic Demos - David Willey
Murray Gell-Mann - George Johnson
Butterfly Effect - Murray Gell-Mann
Chaos Theory on Wall Street - Thomas Bass
Physics of Foam - Sidney Perkowitz

2/18/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-02-18-A SWEET DREAMS, SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
Sleep & Memory - Bob Stickgold
Insomnia Poems - Lisa Russ Spaar
Sleep Deprivation - Eve Van Cauter
Healing Dreams - Marc Barasch
Night Cultures - Bryan Palmer
Hour 2 01-02-18-B DISABILITY AND THE ARTS
Disabled Cartoonist - John Callahan
Blind Tom, Black Pianist - Geneva Handy Southall
Artist with Cerebral Palsy - Lyle Victor Albert
Disability in Film - Martin Norden

2/25/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-02-25-A HOUSES
The Not-So-Big House - Sarah Susanka
Sex and Real Estate - Marjorie Garber
The Natural House - Dan Chiras
Private Chapels - Laura Chester
Rural Architectural Training - Samuel Mockbee
Hour 2 01-02-25-B LIVING LARGE
Maria Callas - Angela Ianonne
Onassis/Callas Affair - Nicholas Gage
Caravaggio - Peter Robb
Fame and Father - Ben Cheever
Judy Garland - Gerald Clarke

Febuary 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin

March 2001
3/4 3/11 3/18 3/25
March 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin
3/04/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-03-04-A RECLAIMING SUBURBIA
Defending Suburbia - Tom Martinson
Georgraphy of Cyberspace - Joel Kotkin
Shopping Malls - Eric Bogosian
East St. Louis - Ken Reardon
Hour 2 01-03-04-B JOINING THE TRIBE
Surviving the Arctic - Hugh Brody
Cultural Survival Ethics - Michael Blake
Cultural Tragedy - Kenn Harper
Rock Fossil, Caveman Anthropologist - Doug Gordon
A Modern Cannibal Tale - Tobia Schneebaum

3/11/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-03-11-A SEND IN THE CLONES
The Cloning Mission - Margaret Talbot
Spider Goats - Martina McGloughlin
Goat Psychologist
- Doug Gordon & Benson Gardner
Human Tissue Market - Lori Andrews
Bio-Art
- Joe Davis, Adam Zaretsky, Oron Catts
Gregor Mendel - Robin Marantz Henig
Hour 2 01-03-11-B MUSICAL ROOTS AND BRANCHES
American Irish Fiddler - Liz Carroll
World Music is Just a Label - Tim Taylor
Giants of Jazz Sax - Richard Terrill
Josh White - Elijah Wald

3/18/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-03-18-A CAN YOU TRUST REPORTERS?
Photojournalist in War Zones - Deborah Kogan
Reporting on Poverty - P. Sainath
Front People & Paper People - David Brooks
Don't Trust Experts - JohnStauber
Profiling "Ordinary" People - Susan Orlean
Hour 2 01-03-18-B MIGHTY MOUTHS: VENTRILOQUISM AND OTHER VOICES
Voice of Bart Simpson - Nancy Cartwright
Cultural History of Ventriloquism - Steven Connor
Ventriloquism Documentary - Sandra Luckow
Literary Ventriloquism - Peter Carey

3/25/2001Program #TITLE (click for program detail)
Hour 1 01-03-25-A DIGGING UP ANCIENT DIRT
Bible Unearthed - Neil Silberman
Golden Mummies - Zahi Hawass
Making a Mummy - Bob Brier
Cave Woman Clothing - Olga Soffer
Missing Link - Pat Shipman
Hour 2 01-03-25-B ANIMALS AMONG US
Animal Culture - Frans de Waal
Thai Elephant Orchestra - Dave Soldier
Animal-Human Connections - Allen Schoen
James Herriot - Jim Wight
Bullfighting - A.L. Kennedy

March 2001 schedule for listeners in Wisconsin


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