"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.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Stephan Eirik Clark's Dangerous Idea? Subdivide the United States into smaller countries.
Karen Russell bookmarks "A High Wind in Jamaica," by Richard Hughes.
Birute Galdikas talks about her almost other-worldly experience of living with orangutans in Borneo.
A few maverick physicists in the 1970s revived interest in quantum physics by exploring some of the deepest philosophical questions about reality.
Mindless Eating author and Ithaca native, Brian Wansink, cleans his plate on stage with Michael.
Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.
Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time." It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.
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