Belquis Ahmadi is Afghan, Sameena Nazir is Pakistani. They tell Steve Paulson why Afghans welcomed the Taliban at first, what happened when they revealed their hidden agenda of oppressing women and controlling education.
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We hear from orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas who talks about her experience in Borneo observing the lives orangutans and about the deep connections she shared with them.
So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right?
But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do?
To tackle that question, Steve Paulson sat down with MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
David Kalat, author of "J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond" tells Steve Paulson what these Japanese gore-fests have in common.
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
Dean Ripa owns and operates the Cape Fear Serpentarium. He spent decades trekking the world hunting examples of the most venomous reptiles alive.
"True Detective" creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto recommends "Absalom, Absalom" by William Faulkner.
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