Thomas Louis Hardin is an internationally known and respected composer known for decades to New Yorkers as an eccentric street performer who dressed as a Viking and called himself "Moondog." Robert Scotto wrote his biography.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Fadiman is one of the original psychonauts – a friend of Richard Alpert and Ken Kesey in the Sixties – who went on to do pioneering research on psychedelics and creativity, and helped found the transpersonal psychology movement. In this EXTENDED interview, Steve Paulson talks with Fadiman about a lifetime of unconventional thinking.
Economist Juliet Schor co-founded The Center for a New American Dream. Among her many proposals to fix the economy: create more jobs by adopting a 30-hour work week and 3-day weekend.
Muffy Mead-Ferro recalls her one and only experience of scrap-booking. She is the author of “Confessions of a Slacker Mom.”
John Elder Robison, whose younger brother is the writer Augusten Burroughs, did not get his diagnosis of Asperger's until he was in his 40s.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge producer Veronica Rueckert talks to Matthew Remski about how he made the change from being a Canadian novelist to a Western yogi.
In the mid-80's the metal band Winger topped the charts with hits like "Seventeen." Then Grunge came along and left bands like Winger in the dust. Now, Kip Winger is back on top with a new CD that debuted at #1 on the music charts. Only this time, he's rocking the classical charts. His new album is "Conversations with Nijinsky"-- orchestral compositions performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Michael Gurian is an educator and therapist and author of “The Wonder of Girls.” He gives Jim Fleming some advice about helping girls master math.
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