Mary Ann Caws is an internationally respected scholar of surrealism. She has translated many of the movements major texts and is the editor of “Surrealism (Themes and Movements).”
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Intensive polling over several years in both countries shows that Americans and Canadians are developing differences in their social, political and moral attitudes.
Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
Robert Leleux talks about growing up gay, in Texas, with his plastic surgery junkie and drama queen of a mother, whom he adores and who is accompanying him on his book tour.
When Stephen Wolfram was 17, he dropped out of college. By the time he was 21, he had a Ph.D. in physics and was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur Genius Award. Today, he is the CEO of Wolfram Research and owner of one of the largest individual datasets in the world.
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Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page and the procrastination that leads to.
Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.
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