Steve Paulson reports on the new genre of Scandinavian crime fiction and we hear a reading from Karin Fossum's "He Who Fears the Wolf."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sy Montgomery tells Steve Paulson about swimming with the pink dolphins of the Amazon. She says they inspire lots of folklore, and are really a species of toothed whale.
John Brockman talks smarts, "third culture" intellectuals, and our web-y world in this NEW and UNCUT interview.
Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
The evidence is mounting... "we" are mostly who we think we are. Our identities are mental constructs, cobbled together from memory and stories. Jonathan Adler gives us a crash course in narrative identity and mental health.
Jonathan Harris created the website wefeelfine.org. He tells Steve Paulson how it works, and we hear a montage of postings from the site.
Michael Pollan tells Judith Strasser where the American front lawn came from, and what it has come to symbolize.
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
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