The way we think about happiness today is a thin, watery version of a deep and complex subject.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lynne Cox is a long distance swimmer who specializes in the impossible. She tells Steve Paulson how she trained, and how she’s able to do survive in such cold water.
Paul Greenberg tells Jim Fleming that Russians get under the skin of Americans, who often make promises they can’t fulfill to the Russians’ expectations.
Vladimir Nabokov is not only a great literary figure. He was a world-class lepidopterist who named ten new species. Pyle tells Judith Strasser about Nabokov’s work with butterflies.
Travel writer Jan Morris tells Steve Paulson that she identifies with the city of Trieste which is a jumble of influences - East and West, past and present.
Katherine Ramsland set out to track down a ghost and chronicles her adventures in search of the paranormal in her book “Ghost: Investigating the Other Side.”
Margaret MacMillan explains the historical context of the Nixon trip to China and how it changed the course of history.
If you like novels about computers and the history of technology, then you must know Neal Stephenson's work. The author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle talks with us about his new novel -- a fast-paced thriller about the world of hyper-gaming. It's called "Reamde."
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