Cape Breton fiddler Natalie McMaster says that she’s been step dancing and playing the fiddle since she was a child.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Part memoir, part comic and part activity book, "What It is" reflects Lynda Barry's belief that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell.
Po Bronson talks with Steve Paulson about some of the families he met who managed to keep their families intact, despite hard times.
John Perkins tells Steve Paulson that he was recruited by the NSA and lived a life of privilege and decadence until he got out of the foreign aid business.
With federal immigration reform discussions stalled, we're thinking about borders this week. One project is tyring to put a face to the rising number of children who are making the journey alone, and illegally, into the United States. Encarni Pindado is Director of MigraZoom, which helps migrants tell their own migration experience through photos.
Rocker Nick Cave talks with Steve Paulson about the relative freedom of writing prose versus song-writing...
Anthropologist Richard Wrangham tells Jim Fleming that he thinks cooking contributed to human evolution and is far older than most people think.
Neuro-scientist Robert Provine, author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” tells Steve Paulson about a two year laughing jag in Tanzania.
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