Mariana Gosnell tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house. So he wrote a song about it!
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Jay Parini talks with Jim Fleming about the power of poetry and how it especially empowers young people in troubled times.
Linda Gray Sexton describes in vivid detail her own, lifelong battle against depression and suicide.
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