For 26 years, Dan Pierotti knew — really knew — that his days were numbered. In 1988 he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. In this second installment of his story, Dan and his wife Judy talk about the dealing with medication, hospice and Dan's decreasing mobility. And they consider whether or not he will stop taking the medicine that keeps him alive.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Happy Valentine's Day! Looking for a new take on love? Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has been studying the emotion and has a new definition. In this EXTENDED interview, she also talks about how to build more of it into our days.
Playwright and actress Anna Deveare Smith tells Steve Paulson about her book “Talk To Me: Listening Between the Lines.” Smith did over 400 interviews with Washington residents, including President Clinton.
Much of what we think about Karl Marx is wrong, according to cultural critic Terry Eagleton. And he says Marx admired capitalism, though he was also its most trenchant critic.
Alister McGrath, a historical theologian at Oxford, shares Dawkins' interest in science, but little else. He and Steve Paulson talk about the role of religious zealotry.
Andrew Boyd is an activist and performance artist who calls himself “Brother Void.” He tells Steve Paulson about his latest project.
Aaron was born female and lived the first 29 years of his life as a girl named Sarah. He then went through the hormone and surgical therapies to become male and lives now as a gay man.
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