Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.” She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.
Christine Maggiore is HIV positive. She denies that HIV causes AIDS and says science is abandoning its own model of proving a theory.
Stephanie Elkins had never heard of ASMR when we started looking for people who experience the tingles and euphoria that people are calling autonomous sensory meridian response.
She wondered just what ASMR might be, and what triggers would give her the tingles.
Cary Sudler is descended from a slave-holding plantation family. He discovered that he shares the Sudler name with both black and white families in the area around the old plantation.
This book really got us excited. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic.And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. And who is this Luigi Serafini? Is he the author?
Drew Kampion tells Steve Paulson about some of the biggest happenings in modern surf culture. Kampion is the author of the book “Stoked: A History of Surf Culture.”
Craig Werner tells Jim Fleming that the Soul Music of the 1970s combined the secular and the sacred and was heavily influenced by gospel music.
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