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            <title>Bright Ideas with Omar Ansari</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Omar Ansari, the founder of Surly Brewing Co., talked with MPR&#039;s Stephen Smith, host of the &quot;Bright Ideas&quot; series, before a live audience in the UBS Forum on November 27, 2012.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Christopher Hampton</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stephen Smith, host of Bright Ideas, talks with playwright Christopher Hampton. They discuss Hampton&#039;s long career and his new work, 
&quot;Appomattox.&quot;]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Brian Horrigan</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Host Stephen Smith and his guest Brian Horrigan of the Minnesota Historical Society discuss the legacy of Charles Lindbergh.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:40:40 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Doug Powell</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Our June installment of the Bright Ideas series features Doug Powell, a designer, strategist, entrepreneur and the creative visionary for Schwartz Powell, where he leads successful projects for a wide range of clients and collaborative partners in health and nutrition. Powell is also the national president for AIGA, the professional association for design. Stephen Smith hosts.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:00:38 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Jim McCorkell</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Our May installment of the Bright Ideas series features Jim McCorkell, CEO and founder of College Possible, where he put into action his life-long passion to make college admission and success possible for low-income students.  Stephen Smith hosts.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Maggie Koerth-Baker</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Our May installment of the Bright Ideas series features Maggie Koerth-Baker, the science editor at Boing Boing. She talks with host Stephen Smith about her vision of America&#039;s energy future, including how economic and social incentives lead to our current high fossil fuel consumption and how similar incentives can help us change.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Kristi Curry Rogers</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bright Ideas host Stephen Smith talks  Titanosauria with dinosaur expert Kristi Curry Rogers. She&#039;s a vertebrate paleontologist who conducts field research in Montana, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe and teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul. They talk about dinosaur bones, why some of sauropods got smaller as they evolved and  how she reconstructs the lives of these long extinct creatures.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Bruce Schneier</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stephen Smith spoke with security expert Bruce Schneier about the importance of security in maintaining a flourishing society.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with David Kennedy</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Criminologist David Kennedy joins Stephen Smith to discuss how cities can end drug and gun violence. He is best known for developing and implementing Boston&#039;s Operation Ceasefire, a program that helped dramatically reduce homicides among young adults.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas: Chef Isaac Becker</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stephen Smith welcomes Isaac Becker, co-owner and chef of two popular Minneapolis restaurants -- 112 Eatery and Bar LaGrassa. Becker won this year&#039;s James Beard award for best chef in the Midwest.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas: PZ Myers</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bright Ideas host Stephen Smith sat down with noted science blogger PZ Myers to discuss evolution and the intersection of science and politics.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:50:07 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Dr. Nicholas LaRusso</title>
            <description><![CDATA[MPR News &quot;Bright Ideas&quot; series welcomes Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, Charles H. Weinman Endowed Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Innovation at Mayo and Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Foundation.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Sarah Hicks</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Hicks is the first woman to hold a titled conductor post in the Minnesota Orchestra&#039;s history and she also heads the innovative &quot;Inside the Classics&quot; series. She joined Stephen Smith for Bright Ideas at the UBS forum on Feb. 22, 2011.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>General Mills Chief Marketing Officer Mark Addicks on how marketing can make a better world</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bright Ideas guest host Jeremy Hobson was joined by Mark Addicks, the Chief Marketing Officer for General Mills. Addicks spends a billion dollars a year on advertising but is crazy about the new influence of social media.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:35 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Daniel Wordsworth</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stephen Smith discusses the work done by the American Refugee Committee with his guest, ARC&#039;s president, Daniel Wordsworth. In Liberia, the organization provides microfinancing to get small businesses off the ground.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas with Lois Quam</title>
            <description><![CDATA[One of Minnesota&#039;s most successful business people Lois Quam sits down with Stephen Smith for a conversation as part of MPR News&#039; Bright Ideas program.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:00:20 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bright Ideas: U of M President Robert Bruininks</title>
            <description><![CDATA[University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks was the featured guest on the program &quot;Bright Ideas&quot; on September 28, 2010.]]></description>
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                                    <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:48:38 -0500</pubDate>
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