Eric Jarosinski bookmarks "Mythologies" by Roland Barthes.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Edward Friedman tells Steve Paulson that the Chinese act as if they are already involved in a Cold War with the U.S.
Brian Palmer has been a staff writer at Fortune magazine, Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report and a correspondent for CNN. He tells Anne Strainchamps that none of that prepared him for Iraq where he was embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Shadid died on assignment in Syria on February 16. In this UNCUT 2010 interview Shadid told Steve Paulson about covering war and its aftermath.
NPR's Eric Nuzum reveals his lifelong fear of ghosts in a haunting new memoir, “Giving Up The Ghost” – the story of his troubled teenage years, suicidal fantasies and conviction that he was being stalked by the ghost of a little girl. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks with Anne Strainchamps about depression, friendship, and what it means to be haunted.
Azar Nafisi is the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran." Her book tells the story of how this English professor met with her students to discuss Western literature in Revolutionary Iran.
David John is a chess Life Master. He went to college on a chess scholarship, but now makes his living as a professional poker player in Las Vegas.
Agriculture already shapes the globe. With food insecurity growing around the globe, the unpredictabilities of climate change and population growth booming... what will we eat in the future?
Jonathan Foley heads the Global Landscape Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment.
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