Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sociologist Doug Maynard talks with Anne Strainchamps about the different styles of sharing bad news and how sometimes the speaker’s style can undermine the content of the message.
David Assman is a German film-maker who spent time with the Iranian women's National Football Team as they played their first game in decades.
Eric Schlosser says our marijuana laws have a lot to do with class and race prejudice.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
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