American cross country ski champion Nina Kemppel tells Jim Fleming that winning an Olympic medal matters to every athlete who competes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Loren Coleman talks to Steve Paulson about sea monsters. He even weighs in on the reality of the Loch Ness Monster.
Kamran Nazeer tells Anne Strainchamps about his own autism and about some of the other autistic children he went to school with and what happened to them.
Historian Michael Oren talks with Steve Paulson about how the Barbary Pirates brought the Marines to the shores of Tripoli and why they went into the Middle East six times during the 19th century.
Steve Paulson spoke with Kurt Vonnegut just after his 83rd birthday, and Vonnegut recalled his experiences during the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Kelly Link tells Anne Strainchamps where some of her stories came from and about answering customers' questions in a Boston bookstore.
Nature writer Robert Finch gives Steve Paulson an insider's view of the ecosystem of the Cape Cod town of Wellfleet. They walk along the outskirts of Wellfleet, and visit shellfish growers Pat and Barbara Woodbury, who are raking for clams.
You can see photos from Cape Cod here.
Mitch Horowitz tells Anne Strainchamps that belief in the occult is as old as the colonies and that spiritualism was America's first great religious export.
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