Neurologist Oliver Sacks is famous for his stories of people with brain disorders. In his book "Musicophilia," he writes about people who were transformed by music.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs.
Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!
Laurell Hamilton has written a series of novels featuring a character called Anita Blake. Anita is a vampire executioner whose day job is raising the dead. Hamilton talks about Anita’s world
Lynne Truss is the author of a very popular punctuation guide. She explains her book’s title to Steve Paulson and gives several funny examples of punctuation mistakes.
Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.
With the international community sending doctors and resources to help stop Ebola's spread across West Africa, we turn to medical historian Gregg Mitman to help us understand the history behind how people are responding to the outbreak.
Is there a better way to think about money? Bernard Lietaer thinks so. One of the designers of the Euro, he’s now talking up the virtues of alternative currencies. In this EXTENDED interview, Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne tell us why complementary currencies are now flourishing around the world – and how they could help us dodge the next recession.
Jonnie Hughes talks about about his book, "On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)."
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