Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Anthropologist Flagg Miller examines al-Qaeda's psychology via Osama bin Laden's cassette collection.
Flagg is author of The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qa'ida from Oxford University Press.
10:05 - Live from Mumbai, Valérie Bergeron reports on repression in Egypt and the first days of the Knife Intifada.
Valérie is in the middle of a trip across the Middle East and Asia.
10:35 - Antidote Zine's Ed Sutton explores the effects of refugees and right-wingers on direct democracy in Switzerland.
Ed will be doing the reporting himself, but Antidote has been transcribing and publishing stories on Switzerland and the refugee crisis all year.
11:05 - Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing finds a matsutake mushroom growing beyond endstage capitalism.
Anna is author of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins from Princeton University Press
12:05 - Sociologist Margee Kerr explores the science and psychology behind fear itself.
Margee's new book is Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear from PublicAffairs Books.
12:45 - Jeff Dorchen turns off his phone and focuses just long enough to write about distraction.
OK now he just wrote me on Facebook, he must be done writing his new Moment of Truth.