British composer John Tavener tells Steve Paulson that he merely records the music that God created, and that he scorns music like Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony which celebrates humanity rather than the Divine.
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Michael Gates Gill told us in his first book how Starbucks saved his life. He's back with "How to Save Your Own Life" – a series of life lessons.
Joseph Lekuton was born in Kenya to a tribe of Maasai nomads. Later, he came to America and eventually got a master’s in educational policy from Harvard.
TTBOOK host Jim Fleming responds to the documentary film “If a Tree Falls” that follows Daniel McGowan – a convicted terrorist… currently serving time. McGowan used arson as political protest with The Earth Liberation Front – a group the FBI considers America’s number one domestic terrorist threat.
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.”
Travel writer Jan Morris tells Steve Paulson that she identifies with the city of Trieste which is a jumble of influences - East and West, past and present.
Jaron Lanier popularized "virtual reality" in the 80s; he thinks Web 2.0 technology is erasing our sense of our own identity.
With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
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