In this extended interview, literary scholar Rob Nixon explains why he recently re-read all of Carson’s writing, and says her legacy endures – from her warnings about environmental toxins in “Silent Spring” to her lyrical essays about the wonder of oceans.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ralph Nader says he knows how to fix the United States. If he could just get a few super rich people to give him $15 billion, he's got a plan for how to get it done.
California surgeon Leonard Schlain tells Steve Paulson that ancestral women made the connection between sex and birth and the moon and discovered time.
Reza Aslan seems to admire what Obama said in his recent Cairo speech but says Muslims will wait to see if the actions of the United States reflect its leader's words.
Religious historian Karen Armstrong doesn’t like the either/or, good/evil dichotomy. She believes we are hard-wired to be both selfish and kind.
Nora Guthrie is folk singer Woody Guthrie’s daughter and runs the Woody Guthrie Archives. Elizabeth Partridge is the author of “This Land Was Made for You and Me,” Guthrie’s biography.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. How? He asked them 36 questions. This year, Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
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