Poet and translator Coleman Barks talks with Anne Strainchamps about the 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The end of money. Really? Are we really on the verge of a coming cashless society?
Filmmaker Werner Herzog bookmarks "The Peregrine" by J.A. Baker,
As water becomes a scare resource, how about taxing everyone for the water they use? That's Michal Charles Moore's dangerous idea.
Elisabet Sahtouris has no truck with Biblical creationists but thinks the standard story of evolution has major problems.
Most people think of conflict as something to be avoided, but there's another way to view it -- as creative and generative. In his book "The Art of Rivalry," Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee explores how intense conflicts, broken friendships and personal reconciliations fueled some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in Modern Art. He tells Steve Paulson that the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse contributed, in part, to cubism.
Jeff VanderMeer recommends "The Other Side" by Alfred Kubin.
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