Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
Imagine what it would feel like if everywhere you went, people assumed you needed help… if complete strangers insisted on giving you a hand, whether you wanted it or not?
As part of the series on death and dying Dan Pierotti and his wife Judy invited us in to the last months of Dan's life. Here's the
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist and philosopher, and author of "Becoming Animal."
Frederick Turner is the author of “1929: a Novel of the Jazz Age.” Turner reads from the book and talks with Steve Paulson about its central character, Bix Beiderbeck.
This six minute short film sets a typical frat house scene with heightened visual intensity: beer pong, drunk girls, guys with their shirts off doing shots, hazing rituals, fights. The twist is that the guy at the center of the film is clearly attracted to one of his frat brothers.
Brian Jones is an actor portraying Karl Marx in "Marx in Soho." Jones tells Judith Strasser some of the details about Marx that helped him nail the character.