"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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Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman is fascinated by the way memory shapes our sense of self. But he says our memories can be quite different from what we actually experience.
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Fred Burton says we're right to fear the insidious threat of terrorism. Burton was one of the first three agents to serve in the U.S. government's elite Counter-Terrorism Division and is the author of "Ghost: Confessions of a Counter-terrorism Agent."
"Religion always starts with mysticism," says David Steindl-Rast. Now 89, he's been a Benedictine monk since 1953. Brother David was one of the first Roman Catholics to engage in dialogues between Christians and Buddhists. He tells Steve Paulson about the joys of life in the monastery.
NRBQ has been called the world’s greatest bar band, but prefer to say they play “omni-pop,” and explain that’s why they’ve lasted for over 35 years.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
Diamanda Galas is a classically trained pianist, with a vocal range of three and a half octaves whose music is dark and intense.
Edward Larson tells Steve Paulson what makes the Islands unique, and why they inspired Charles Darwin to write “The Origin of Species."
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