John Balaban performed alternative service in Vietnam during the war there. While helping children injured in the fighting, he grew to love the traditional sung poetry of rural Vietnam.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Nichols tells Jim Fleming about the Golden Globe race of 1968, when a group of unprepared sailors in inadequate craft attempted to sail alone around the world.
Anthropologist Richard Wrangham tells Jim Fleming that he thinks cooking contributed to human evolution and is far older than most people think.
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner- a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew- tell Jim Fleming how they came together after 9-11 with the goal of writing a children's book and shared their experiences and religious perspectives.
Film-maker Pola Rapaport talks with Steve Paulson about "Story of O." Rapaport has made a film about the classic erotic novel and its famously secretive author.
Neuro-scientist Robert Provine, author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” tells Steve Paulson about a two year laughing jag in Tanzania.
Matthew Clark produced a compilation CD of Chinese rock and roll. He plays excerpts for Anne Strainchamps and tells her about the various bands and the Chinese rock scene.
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness. He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners, and he's developing a new scientific model for studying emotion. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about how his scientific work ended up changing his own life.
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