Barry Glassner tells Steve Paulson that Americans seem to think the value of a meal lies principally in what it lacks - no sugar, fat, carbs, calories, etc. He explores the myths that make us the food police.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Dennis McFarland deals with the consequences of violence in his book “Singing Boy.” McFarland talks about the effects of grief on the deceased’s survivors.
Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
There are sad songs in rock, and sad songs in jazz, but the resting place for the saddest songs is clearly in country music.
Emily Rapp had her foot amputated when she was 4, and the rest of the leg at age 8.
We hear geo-political expert Charles Emmerson talk with Steve Paulson about the future prospects for the Arctic.
Choreogapher Bill T. Jones recommends Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees."
Fred Burton says we're right to fear the insidious threat of terrorism. Burton was one of the first three agents to serve in the U.S. government's elite Counter-Terrorism Division and is the author of "Ghost: Confessions of a Counter-terrorism Agent."
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