David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Fleda Brown, poet laureate of Delaware reads some of her poems and talks with Steve Paulson.
Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Stephanie Elkins had never heard of ASMR when we started looking for people who experience the tingles and euphoria that people are calling autonomous sensory meridian response.
She wondered just what ASMR might be, and what triggers would give her the tingles.
Michael Hebb is the founder of “Let’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death," a movement that encourages people to get together with friends to discuss end of life issues.
Philosopher Samuel Scheffler bookmarks "The Children of Men" by P.D. James.
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