Anne Fadiman talks about the delight she and her brother took as children with collecting (and killing) butterflies.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Allen Snyder tells Steve Paulson that he uses a device called the Medtronic Mag Pro to stimulate autistic-savant-like abilities in normal people.
Andrew Hurley’s book is “Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture.” Hurley talks about the history of the diner.
Humans become walking advertisements in Carter Lee's tale of sponsorship run amok.
Adam Mansbach knows the world of graffit writers. He's even tried tagging himself, but mostly, settles for writing about it in his novel "Rage is Back."
Alexandra Fuller was the child of white farmers in the former Rhodesia. Her memoir is called “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood.”
Our series concludes with the final episode in the story of the end of Dan Pierotti's life. His wife, Judy, says she and Dan were both very open to sharing their story with To the Best of Our Knowledge. "I just think that this is a subject that needs to be discussed in our lives and in our world." And she's had some unexpected responses from people who've heard Dan and Judy's story on the radio, "People that I hardly even know are coming up to me, and hugging me on the street and thanking me for doing this."
Ann Jones tells Steve Paulson about her trip across Africa to meet the Lovedu people, a tribe ruled by women.
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