Mark Kurlansky talks with Jim Fleming about the long and dramatic history of salt.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What is normal? "Normal" is a social construct, not a medical one and society should learn to embrace diversity.
Lauren Weedman was adopted. When she got curious about her birth parents, her adoptive mother organized a conspiracy to track them down.
Anne Strainchamps talks with Robert Pinsky, 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, who reads several of the poems people have been sending him since the attacks.
Michael Dirda won the Pulitzer Prize for his literary criticism in the Washington Post Book World. Among his collections of essays is Classics for Pleasure.
Cancer patient Katie Paul has ovarian cancer and describes how the disease has changed her life.
Writer and teacher Parker Palmer talks with Anne Strainchamps about his experience with clinical depression and attending to people on their deathbeds.
Peter Stark, author of “Last Breath,” tells Steve Paulson about various narrow escapes adventurers have had from avalanches and bitter cold.
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