David Hillman almost lost his chance for a PhD when his doctoral committee questioned the part of his dissertation on recreational drug use in antiquity.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Bill Siemering, NPR’s first Director of Programming and President of Developing Radio Partners, tells Steve Paulson how communities in the developing world are using radio as a community development tool.
Sci-fi writer Eileen Gunn bookmarks Nisi Shawl's "Filter House."
Francine Segan is the author of “Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook.” She gives an inside view of the kind of dinner party William Shakespeare might have known
Poet, essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman tells Anne Strainchamps that she shares her garden with the local deer and raises hundreds of roses organically.
Brian Palmer is a veteran journalist and foreign correspondent. He embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines three times between 2004 and 2006. He's now made a documentary film called "Full Disclosure," about the experience.
Douglas Coupland says only twenty percent of people are hard-wired to “get” irony and the rest take everything at face value.
Author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana" started to worry about death as a child, growing up in Cuba during an era of public executions ...
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