Nathaniel Lachenmeyer tells Jim Fleming about the history of our suspicion that 13 is an “unlucky” number.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We have a new Poet Laureate here in the U.S. Listen in as Natasha Trethewey talks about the history and memory embedded in her work.
Reporter Matt Lieber offers his reflections on crossword puzzles and the people who love them, from the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held in Stamford, CT in 2002.
Nicole-Anne Boyer is a strategic foresight specialist who helps clients come up with realistic projections of the future. She tells Steve Paulson that violent conflicts have actually dramatically decreased since the end of the Cold War...
Michael Feldman, host of public radio’s comedy quiz show “Whad’ya Know,” provides his take on Groucho and putting audience members down when you still want them to like you.
Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Margaret Salinger talks about her childhood in the woods of New Hampshire with her father, J.D. Salinger.
Historian John D'Emilio tells Jim Fleming that Bayard Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay.
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