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...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist and poet Lavinia Greenlaw has written a memoir called "The Importance of Music to Girls." She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how music helped her as she grew up, and she reads from her book.
John Portmann contributed to and edited the collection of essays, “In Defense of Sin.” He tells Steve Paulson why, as a child, he loved going to confession.
Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman are actresses who wrote and perform a play called “Gertrude and Alice.” They tell Steve Paulson about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Justin O. Schmidt is a research biologist and professor at the University of Arizona School of Entomology. He's the creator of Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."
Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
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