Tom Paine is the author of a novel called “The Pearl of Kuwait.” It follows the experiences of a Vietnamese-American Marine during the first Gulf War.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Virginia Morell wrote a cover story for National Geographic Magazine on the latest research going on in the field of animal intelligence.
Najla Said is a Palestinian-Lebanese Christian Arab-American who grew up on New York’s Jewish Upper West Side. And she’s the daughter of the late Edward Said –the famous Palestinian intellectual and activist.
Dr. William Frey, director of the Alzheimer’s Research Center at Regents Hospital in Minnesota and author of “Crying: A Mystery of Tears,” talks with Steve Paulson about the physiology of tears.
Poet Stephen Mitchell talks with Jim Fleming about classic creation stories from several major religious traditions.
Psychologist Tara Brach tells Anne Strainchamps that most people believe they’re flawed and have to learn to view themselves with compassion.
Rupert Thomson’s latest novel, “The Book of Revelation,” straddles a razor thin line between literature and pornography. He recaps his plot for Steve Paulson.
Ashley Lynn Hlebinsky is the curator of the Cody Firearms Museum (the most comprehensive collection of American firearms in the world) in Cody, Wyoming. She says we should strip away the politics and the myth around guns and also view them as important historic objects.
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