Christian Wiman is a poet and editor of Poetry Magazine. His latest book of poems, Every Riven Thing, is a celebration of life and an exploration of mortality.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Carlyon tells Jim Fleming that Rice was once considered America’s greatest humorist. He was a talking clown, doing satiric commentary on current events.
Science researcher and author Clifford Pickover tells Steve Paulson that God may exist on the fringes of human perception.
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.
Drew Kampion tells Steve Paulson about some of the biggest happenings in modern surf culture. Kampion is the author of the book “Stoked: A History of Surf Culture.”
Elisabet Sahtouris has no truck with Biblical creationists but thinks the standard story of evolution has major problems.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
Jazz performer Esperanza Spalding shares what a lifetime of improvising has taught her about reconciliation.
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