Francesco Sbano tells Steve Paulson about the culture of Calabria in Southern Italy and the importance of respect and honor.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist who believes there has been a five fold increase in the incidence of insanity in the last 250 years, and that some infectious agent is to blame.
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
David Rieff has written a sobering account of his mother's last days. It's called "Swimming in a Sea of Death," and tells how he tried to do the right thing by his mother - Susan Sontag - while also being true to himself.
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.
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