Mariana Gosnell tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.
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Maurice Sendak talks about growing up as a Jewish child in WWII New York.
Maybe Mr. Rogers was right and every neighbor is a potential friend – someone worth inviting over, getting to know. On the other hand, maybe the weird guy next door will turn out to be Jeffrey Dahmer.
Urban sprawl is a staggering problem in China as a result of the on-going Chinese industrial revolution.
Linda Gray Sexton describes in vivid detail her own, lifelong battle against depression and suicide.
Phillip Jenkins is the author of “The Next Christendom: The Coming of Age of Global Christianity.” Jenkins tells Steve Paulson that Christianity may be declining in the nations of the industrialized West, but Pentecostalism is experiencing explosive growth in Latin America and Africa.
Shocking acts of violence are committed in the name of religion, but Karen Armstrong says we're too quick to blame faith for violence and intolerance around the world.
Joshua Shenk tells Jim Fleming that Abraham Lincoln never attempted suicide, that we know of, but referred to it in a poem he wrote, and Shenk recites the poem.
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