Christopher O'Riley chats with Jim Fleming about classical music's image problem among young people and how he makes the music seem cool.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Psychiatrist Darold Treffert is one of the world's authorities on savant syndrome. In this EXTENDED interview, he calls savants "islands of genius" and says we won't understand consciousness until we figure out what's happening in the minds of savants.
Brenda Peterson talks with Jim Fleming and reads several selections from “The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World”.
Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies. In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.
David Gilmour decided to let his son, Jesse, drop out of school, provided that he agree to watch three movies a week with his father. He talks about this experience.
Doug Peacock is a legend in wilderness circles. A friend of Edward Abbey, Peacock was a Vietnam vet so traumatized by the war that he escaped into the wilderness once he returned to America. He says grizzlies saved his life.
Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
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