Anthropologist Cynthia Mahmood is among the few Westerners who’s actually spent time talking with Islamic terrorists on their turf.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He’s the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decemberists.
Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Journalist David Shenk says Alzheimer's an ancient illness afflicting some 5 million Americans, and that the number of cases is sure to rise dramatically as the Baby Boomers age.
Eddie Lenihan tells a story told to him by the foreman of a road construction crew in Ireland.
Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American and the author of “Aloft.” He reads a bit from the novel.
The mash-up is one form of remix culture.
When a loved one dies, most of us turn to a professional, someone like Caitlin Doughty. She's a licensed mortician, death activist, and creator of the popular webseries "Ask A Mortician". In this interview, she talks about what happens when a body is prepared for burial.
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