Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Writer Edmund White looks back over 50 years of gay love and liberation. Although married, White has resisted what he calls “gay assimilation”. He talks about the politics of gay sex and promiscuity.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman talks about "Emotional Intelligence."
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
A few weeks after Dan's funeral, his wife Judy talks about how she's dealing with his absence, and how she wants to remember him.
Father Abuna Elias Chacour is a Palestinian, Arab, Christian Israeli. He runs the Mar Elias Interfaith Institution, which teaches students up to 50 years old principles of religious toleration.
Nalini Nadkarni has been called “the queen of canopy research,” in part because of her personal philosophy to bring together two groups - the trees and the general public. She does this by collaborating with dancers, rappers, artists, and prisoners, just to name only a few. She created the Big Canopy Database to help researchers around the world to store the rich trove of data she and others are uncovering.
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