A few weeks ago, we asked you to send us your stories of unforgettable neighbors. Here’s one from Wisconsin listener Donna Jaehrling.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mary Roach is the author of “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.” She reads from the book and talks about observing an anatomy class.
Sacks had a particular fascination with the ways our brains can play tricks on our vision. He also reveals his own lifelong struggle to recognize the faces of other people.
Lynn Sharon Schwartz is a veteran traveler and novelist but has admitted to herself that at this stage in her life, she is over traveling.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
Margaret D. Jacobs studies early 20th century policies in both the U.S. and Australia, that removed indigenous children from their homes.
Jim Carrier tells Jim Fleming about some of the historic sites of the Civil Right’s Movement and why they needed an outsider to publicize their locations.
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