Rita Golden Gelman tells Anne Strainchamps how she became a professional nomad, and recounts some stories from her travels in Bali and rural Mexico.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cosmology is on our minds, with the remarkable new discovery confirming the Big Bang. To get a better sense of what it all means – and how creation stories like the Big Bang have shaped our sense of ourselves – Steve Paulson turned to Adam Frank, an astrophysicist who writes for NPR’s science blog 13.7. He’s the author of the book “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang.”
Keith Donohue's novel is "The Stolen Child." He tells Jim Fleming the book's about a boy who's stolen by fairies and the boy who replaces him in the human world.
Robert Thurman tells Anne Strainchamps about the Buddhist concept of self and why it leads to compassion and understanding.
John Wesley Harding was plain Wesley Harding Stace when he first heard Bob Dylan's album, and working toward his Phd at Cambridge.
Marilyn Johnson talks about how librarians are emerging as heroes of the digital age because of their love for the written word, free speech and open access.
Micki McGee says Americans' social and economic history predisposes us to embrace self-improvement as a way of staying competitive in a tight job market.
Patricia Smith is an African American who's the four-time champion of the National Poetry Slam.
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