Linda Kohanov tells Anne Strainchamps horses can mirror the authentic feeling of their riders and help people process what’s going on under their social mask.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team are looking for new, organic ways of building homes… and cities. About 4 billion of us live in cities right now. Predictions are, by the end of this century, that number will be closer to 8 billion. That means, for the foreseeable future, we need to build the equivalent of a city of one million people EVERY WEEK... How?
In this extended interview, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin discusses "Toms River" — his remarkable investigative story of industrial pollution in a New Jersey town — and why it's so difficult to prove the link between environmental toxins and cancer clusters.
How's this for a novel premise? Owen Lerner is a pediatric psychiatrist. One day, he's struck by lightning. He survives but he has a new obsession -- with barbecue. That's the premise behind Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel, "Man Alive!" She talks about its inspiration and the book's themes.
So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex.
Sometimes, it's also about love.
So now for an even larger question: what the heck is love?
Psyhchologist Barbara Fredrickson's says love is more brief - and more available - than we think it is.
Jasper Fforde talks with Steve Paulson about the adventures of his fictional character Thursday Next, a literary detective.
Mark Barrowcliffe wasted his youth playing Dungeons and Dragons. Now he's turned his obsession into a book.
Biographer Joan Schenkar thinks Patricia Highsmith deserves to be recognized as the author of one of the great American novels.
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