Laurie Notaro tells Jim Fleming about her Mom’s toxic Christmas trees, and what it took to make her take her own tree down.
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Robert Thurman tells Anne Strainchamps about the Buddhist concept of self and why it leads to compassion and understanding.
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.”
When he was 9, Neil deGrasse Tyson fell in love with astrophysics during his first visit to a planetarium. He was, literally, star-struck, and now runs the Hayden Planetarium.
How do you set poetry to music? Grammy Award-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider did it with Ted Kooser's poems, sung by Dawn Upshaw. She tells Anne Strainchamps how she finds beauty in her art.
John Wesley Harding was plain Wesley Harding Stace when he first heard Bob Dylan's album, and working toward his Phd at Cambridge.
Noah Levine talks to Anne Strainchamps about the fusion of Buddhism and punk rock, dharma-punx.
Jaron Lanier popularized "virtual reality" in the 80s; he thinks Web 2.0 technology is erasing our sense of our own identity.
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