Margaret Weis tells Steve Paulson all about dragons, and about the dragon world she created for her books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.
Coke consistently outsells Pepsi, though Pepsi routinely wins blind taste tests. Why is one of the mysteries of advertising.
Kayla Williams tells Anne Strainchamps that women soldiers feel sexism from their fellow soldiers, even in war zones, and that it complicates their lives.
In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.
Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have been photographing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 30 years. They talk about the conditions in the prison - nicknamed Angola, for the plantation that was formerly on the site - and how they've changed over time. When they see the inmates working in the fields, they say, it looks a lot like slavery.
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