Diana Reiss directs the Dolphin Research Program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore and is a professor in the Psychology Department at Hunter College. She writes about her findings on dolphin intelligence in the book “Dolphin in the Mirror.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Freakwater is an American country band. They're profiled by TTBOOK producer Veronica Rueckert. We hear lots of music from their new album, "Thinking of You."
Ayaan Hirsi Ali may be the world’s most famous critic of Islam. Born a Muslim, Hirsi Ali fled to the Netherlands where she eventually became a member of Parliament...
The best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial ten years ago for "insulting Turkishness". She says the political climate in Turkey is more polarized than ever today, and even riskier for writers. She also believes fiction can help heal divided cultures.
The Kitchen Sisters (public radio producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) talk with Anne Strainchamps and give her samples of the 2007 season of Hidden Kitchens.
Choying Drolma began her life as a Buddhist nun in Nepal. As she tells Steve Paulson, Drolma is now bringing music to the West with American guitarist Steve Tibbetts.
Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”
Brad Blanton tells Anne Strainchamps that speaking your mind, even when it’s rude, will result in deeper, more satisfying relationships.
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