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The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 6, 2012

Rosanne Cash fills in for Leonard. She’ll speak with neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux about the underlying brain mechanisms that make us feel emotions. Musician Mike Doughty discusses the cost of his rise to prominence. Adriana Trigiani talks about her novel The Shoemaker’s Wife. And physics professor Lisa Randall tells us about the search for the elusive Higgs boson.

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