One year ago 20 children and six school staff members were fatally shot in Newtown, Connecticut. In our hour on the wisdom of children this week, Muadh Bhavnagarwala and Jason Graves share their story of taking part in the memorial that followed the shootings. Listen in.
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Brion Gysin is the most influential 20th century artist you’ve never heard of.
Patricia Volk recalls growing up in a New York restaurant family. She describes the cuisine at the family’s eateries, and what they ate at home.
The film "The Dhamma Brothers" tells the story of a program which brought several Buddhist teachers to maximum security Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama to train a group of inmates in Vapassana meditation.
Historian Rebecca Spang tells Judith Strasser that "restaurant" originally meant a cup of broth and explains how it evolved into the culinary paradise we know today.
Penny Von Eschen tells Steve Paulson about the State Department's use of jazz musicians as a weapon in the cold war to win hearts and minds in the Third World.
Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.
There’s one devil we NEVER sympathize with: the terrorist. But... Hold on. Not so fast, says filmmaker Marshall Curry.
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