As editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman reads thousands of new poems a year. Who better to check in with on the state of English language poetry?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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“Refrigerator Mothers” was the label wrongly applied to mothers who were falsely believed to have caused their children’s autism. Maria Mombille was such a mother.
Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness. He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners, and he's developing a new scientific model for studying emotion. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about how his scientific work ended up changing his own life.
This week, the Indian election is on our minds, so we turn to one of Indian's most celebrated writers, Arundhati Roy.
Creationist Paul Nelson, a fellow at the Discovery Institute, makes the case for his point of view.
For our future show on... well... the future, Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson sat down to take a look at past forecasts.
Take a listen to the UNCUT discussion here:
Hana was a little girl killed in the Holocaust. Her suitcase came into the possession of a Japanese school teacher some 60 years later.
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