Sue Halpern spent five years subjecting herself to every memory test and brain imaging technique she could find.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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three of Aldo Leopold’s children talk about what it was like to grow up as part of a pioneering experiment in prairie restoration. They had no idea what they were doing, but they loved it!
Tom Lutz tells Jim Fleming that human beings are great crybabies. Lutz is the author of “Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears.”
Thomas Glave is a young, Black, gay writer who’s lived in New York and Jamaica. Glave tells Jim Fleming that he tries to understand and identify with all of his characters.
American by birth, Vijay Iyer is trying to create a new kind of music, a synthesis of Western jazz and Indian music.
The 1967 Ice Bowl is one of football's legendary showdowns, when the wind chill dipped to 50 below zero. Commentator Bill Povletich remembers this historic game.
Karen King is a historian at the Harvard Divinity School. She tells Anne Strainchamps that there are many early Christian texts that didn't make it into the Bible and that they give us a much fuller understanding of what it means to be a Christian.
Stephen LaBerge pioneered the field of lucid dreaming research at Stanford University. He says that anyone can learn how to become aware while dreaming and use lucid dreaming as a therapeutic tool.
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