TTBOOK host Jim Fleming responds to the documentary film “If a Tree Falls” that follows Daniel McGowan – a convicted terrorist… currently serving time. McGowan used arson as political protest with The Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI considers America’s number one domestic terrorist threat.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poet Patiann Rogers tells Jim Fleming why she finds the language of science inspiring, and says naming things is the way to notice and appreciate them.
Matthijs van Boxsel is the author of “The Encyclopedia of Stupidity.” He tells Steve Paulson it started with shame at his own stupidity, but he’s come finally to praise it.
Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a visionary economist who founded the micro-credit movement and India's Grameen Bank.
He recently produced a set of CDs for the BBC that include rare recordings of the prominent writers.
John Freyer decided to sell everything in his apartment on E-Bay. He tells the story in a book called “All My Life for Sale.”
Psychologist Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli had an extraordinary friendship, feeding off each other's interests in the occult and quantum physics. Arthur Miller has the story.
With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
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