Long-time hospice worker, Karen Reppen shares some of her favorite resources for dealing with grief and loss.
Long-time hospice worker, Karen Reppen shares some of her favorite resources for dealing with grief and loss.
Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk says she's recently heard students demand trigger warnings before her lectures on rape, or ask that she not talk about the subject at all. She tells Steve Paulson that it’s more important than ever to teach students about rape law, because when it comes to sex, the line between what’s legal and what’s criminal is rapidly shifting.
After nearly three decades together, Brian Kaufman and Martin Swinger recently got hitched on the first day gay marriage became legal in the state of Maine.
Could the Islamic Jihad forge an alliance with the Aryan Nations? James Jones is an authority on religious terrorism; he says militant religious groups are beginning to collaborate.
Jack El-Hai talks about Walter Freeman, the man who invented and promoted the surgical technique called the lobotomy.
Poet Rochelle Hurt is from Youngstown, Ohio. Now that she's moved away, she misses home. And the rust.
James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA's double-helix structure, talks with Steve Paulson about making the discovery and what sort of environment produces scientific breakthroughs.
Storyteller Hugh Lupton tells Jim about the ancient Celtic tradition related to our Halloween rituals, and tells him a story. Lupton is the author of “Freaky Tales from Here and There.”