022: A Clear Life – Charlie Parr on Harlan Hubbard’s Payne Hollow: Life on the Fringe of Society

“[Charlie] Parr may have been born during the Nixon era, but you can taste the grit of the Dust Bowl in his music.” – Dusted Magazine An easily confused and very shy individual, Charlie Parr has been traveling around singing his songs ever since leaving Austin Minnesota in the 1980’s in search of Spider John Koerner, whom he found about 100 miles north at the Viking Bar one Sunday night. The experience changed his life, made him more or less unemployable, and brings us to now: 13 recordings, 250 shows a year or more, 200,000 miles on a well broke …

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021 – Minimalist Parenting and Cultivating a Family Dynamic with Christine Koh

Christine Koh is a music and brain scientist turned multimedia creative via channels as a speaker, writer, designer and consultant. She spent a decade in academia, during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen’s University and joint-appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. Christine was about to become a professor when she decided to hang up her academic spurs in favor of more flexible and independent ventures. Since leaving academia in 2006, Christine has forged a new career …

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020: A Syllabus for Newfound Seriousness with Christy Wampole

“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of ironic living…the ironic life is certainly a provisional answer to the problems of too much comfort, too much history and too many choices, but it is my firm conviction that this mode of living is not viable and conceals within it many social and political risks.” – Christy Wampole Christy Wampole is an assistant professor in the department of French and Italian at Princeton, and the author of “Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor” and “The Other Serious: Essays for …

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