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Join Steve every week for stimulating, informative and entertaining interviews you can’t hear anywhere else; plus he has everything you need to get you moving on your Sunday morning, every week from 7 to 11 on WJBC and WJBC.com.

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Photo Credit: Marais Montmartre Photo Credit: Marais Montmartre

The joy of living alone

It's the biggest demographic shift since the Baby Boom: today 28 million more Americans are living alone than were in 1950.  This change has had large implications on the economy, politics and even urban planning

(Photo by NASA/ESA via Getty Images) (Photo by NASA/ESA via Getty Images)

Lawrence Krauss: God not needed for the universe

It's a question as old as the practice of philosophy: why is there something rather than nothing?

Physicist Lawrence Krauss has spent his career engaging this very issue studying cosmology.

Krauss asserts that what has been discovered about quantum physics in fairly recent history proposes a controversial idea:  God is not needed for the creation of the universe

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Dorothy Roberts: Worries of bioracism

As biotechnology allows for more specialized medicines to fight disease, should pharmaceuticals be developed based more upon skin color than other, more vital biological traits?

Legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that race is only a social construct, not a reliable biological definition

Painting by Feodor Fuchs Custer's Last Charge "Custer's Last Charge," painting by Feodor Fuchs. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The heroes and villains who won the West

From the Alamo to Bull Run, the westward expansion of the United States was a path of conflict, compromise, and sacrifice.

In his book "Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion," Robert Morgan profiles 10 figures he sees as instrumental in forging the coast-to-coast empire America would become.

Morgan tells

Author Robin Cook (photo: John Earle) Author Robin Cook (photo: John Earle)

Money and medicine meet in Robin Cook’s new thriller

Novelist Robin Cook is an expert at building thrillers around the emerging issues in medicine.

Cook, who has long advocated for health care reform, often finds a monetary incentive for many of his villains.

In his lates

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal steps off a viewing stand during his retirement ceremony at Fort McNair July 23, 2010 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal steps off a viewing stand during his retirement ceremony at Fort McNair July 23, 2010 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

The journalist and General McChrystal

In June of 2010, journalist Michael Hastings spent several days in Europe with Gen. Stanley McChrystal's inner circle as they worked to drum up support for the campaign under the general's command: the war in Afghanistan.

Hastings was

Authors Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel.  (Photo by: Daniel Portnoy /Courtesy G.P. Putnam's Sons) Authors Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. (Photo by: Daniel Portnoy /Courtesy G.P. Putnam's Sons)

Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel improvise a novel

Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel are no strangers to demented situations and madcap humor.

Both men have authored wildly successful comedic projects in print and on the screen. With their new novel, "Lunatics,

Rahm Emanuel on the Chicago Mayoral campaign. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Rahm Emanuel on the Chicago Mayoral campaign. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The wild life of Twitter Rahm Emanuel

On a lark, Dan Sinker started a spoof Twitter account under the guise that the tweets were those of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

The @MayorEmanuel account was a cartoon version of the famously profane Emanuel, who at the time, was running for mayor of Chicago.

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Jenny Slate. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images) Jenny Slate. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

‘SNL’ alum Jenny Slate voices Marcel the Shell

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a star.

The stop-motion animated character with an adorable voice is the creation of comedic actress and "Saturday Night Live" alum Jenny Slate and director Dean Fleischer-Camp.

What started

Glen and Ashley Campbell perform during The Goodbye Tour. Glen and Ashley Campbell perform during The Goodbye Tour.

Glen Campbell goodbye tour a family effort

Not surprisingly, Glen Campbell has a very musical family.

 

The singer's children, Shanon, Cal and Ashley, are all performers who have joined the singer on his farewell "Goodbye Tour."

Ashley Campbell joined her father for an Australian tour shortly after she graduated from college.