Old Mole Variety Hour for May 4, 2009

 Is human nature good or evil? Can you move beyond your past if you were raised on a commune?  Does industrial livestock farming of pigs and poultry lead to  new diseases?  These are the questions raised on this program, hosted by the Old Mole's Denise Morris.  

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1.  Evidence is accumulating  in science that we are hard wired with positive, cooperative emotions, says Dacher  Keltner, a professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley in this conversation with Bill Resnick.  

2.   Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Judith Ryan Hendricks's novel  The Laws of Harmony.

3.   Cities of Pigs and Poultry are ideal places for breeding new pathogens, according to Rob Wallace in this conversation with Jan Haaken.