Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.
Antonio Damasio says by understanding the details of what the body is doing when we experience an emotion, science will be able to develop better therapies and interventions.
Cartoonist, author and illustrator Bruce McCall tells Jim Fleming that the same economic pressures attract Canadians and he compares Canadian and American culture.
Benjamin Skinner tells the story of how he infiltrated slave markets on five continents from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti and says that in Manhattan, you're five hours away from negotiating the sale of another human being in broad daylight.
Azar Nafisi reads from her memoir "Things I've Been Silent About." She created a sensation with her book "Reading Lolita in Tehran."
Bob Spitz writes about the Beatles time in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in his book "The Beatles: The Biography."
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