Greg Mortensen is the author of "Three Cups of Tea." The book explains how a failed attempt to climb K2 led to a program to build schools in the heart of Taliban country in Pakistan and Afghanistan with local people and donated money.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gayle Ross is a Cherokee storyteller whose great great great grandfather was chief of the Cherokee Nation during the infamous Trail of Tears.
Can you know a culture if you don’t speak the language?
In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, we’re surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see what’s lost – or made new – in translation.
Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
Hal Taussig thought it was time to discuss what books should be in the New Testament, so he organized discussions with a council of advisors. They've come up with a volume that has what everybody knows, and quite a lot most people don't. In this UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming Hal Taussig describes some of the 10 books they've added and why.
After a six-year wait, Martin’s "A Dance With Dragons" finally hits bookstores.
Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann are the founding members of the band Great Big Sea. Their music has its roots in Newfoundland traditional folk music, but it rocks!
Helen DeWitt tells Anne Strainchamps about her novel, "Lightning Rods," which focuses on a bizarre solution to sexual harrassment in the workplace.
Holley Bishop is a New York literary agent who once wouldn’t have cared about nature. These days she’s flat-out in love with bees, and has written “Robbing the Bees - A Biography of Honey.”
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