Alain de Botton's latest project Is art as therapy. Feeling lonely? Stand in front of the Mona Lisa. Anxious about work? Caspar David Friedrich’s “Rocky Reef on the Seashore” will put everything in perspective. Anne talks with de Botton about his new book, free app, and… upcoming museum shows.
Brian Turner served as an infantry team leader with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Unit in Iraq. His book of poetry is called “Here, Bullet.”
Ben Folds is a singer/songwriter from North Carolina who recently joined forces with Nick Hornby, the critically-acclaimed novelist from England.
Gabor Maté is a physician at OnSite, a Vancouver detox facility and the only supervised injection site in North America.
Sacred music provided comfort and hope to generations of African Americans, from slavery to the civil rights movement. Music historian Robert Darden tells this inspiring story and we hear lots of great music.
Cary Sudler returns to his ancestral home to apologize to the black members of his family for the injustice of slavery.
Biologist Elisabet Sahtouris left her teaching job to go live on a Greek island and re-think her life as a scientist.
Craig Venter, who's come as close as anyone has to creating life in a test tube, tells Steve Paulson what drives him.
