Anthony Shadid won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the war in Iraq. He knows the violence of war. As he told Steve Paulson, he also knows, that when the war ends, unintended consequences follow.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Josh Ruxin's Dangerous Idea? Instead of foreign aid, use entrepreneurial investment to reduce poverty around the world.
In his new book “Incognito,” David Eagleman explores what he calls “the secret lives of the brain.”
Azadeh Moaveni talks about growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.
Rapper Boots Riley is an activist who uses hip hop lyrics like a political weapon.
David Myers tells Jim Fleming humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy and seem to be much more resilient than they give themselves credit for.
In the days of tall ships and explorers, people collected exotic wonders in cabinets of curiosities, wunderkameren. Writer and teacher Heather McDougal has long loved those early days of science. Her blog's called "Cabinet of Wonders."
Betool Khedairi grew up in Iraq with an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother.
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