Laurence Gonzales tells Jim Fleming about "Lucy," in which a mysterious 15 year old girl is discovered in the Congo.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Piers Vitebsky studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia. They keep herds of reindeer for meat, but also have personal, consecrated reindeer animal doubles, which they believe will die for them.
Michael Gurian is an educator and therapist and author of “The Wonder of Girls.” He gives Jim Fleming some advice about helping girls master math.
Jim Fleming talks with Mairin Ui Cheide, a sean-nos singer. Sean-nos is old-style traditional singing where songs usually tell a story.
Patricia O’Connor tells Jim Fleming there’s nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive and that people should stop trying to make English behave like Latin.
There are currently 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US. Jose Angel N is one example.
John Strausbaugh says blackface (and whiteface) have long histories in this country and helped Americans learn to live with each other.
Journalist Linda Ellerbee remembers buying oranges in Afghanistan, visiting Vietnam a generation after the war, and bathing in the Mediterranean to mark the passing of Julia Child.
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