Charles Mann tells Steve Paulson how there got to be two Bayer companies making aspirin; how it was marketed in South America, and what makes Anacin different from aspirin.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"I was very uncomfortable with death for most of my life," says Karen Reppen says she ran from death and dying for most of her life. But after she decided to face her fears head-on by getting a job in hospice, she started to see the moment of death as a source of wonder and joy.
Eric Nuzum writes a ghost story in the form of a memoir about growing up in a house he believed to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress. She stalked him.
Birute Galdikas talks about her almost other-worldly experience of living with orangutans in Borneo.
Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica," by Richard Hughes.
Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a famous critic of Islam. She talks with Steve Paulson about why she believes Islam is inherently incompatible with Western values.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
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