Gary Mitchell is a Vietnam vet who's struggled with PTSD for some 40 years. He was a sniper and assigned to carry out planned assassinations.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Can you know a culture if you don’t speak the language?
In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, we’re surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see what’s lost – or made new – in translation.
Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
Hal Taussig thought it was time to discuss what books should be in the New Testament, so he organized discussions with a council of advisors. They've come up with a volume that has what everybody knows, and quite a lot most people don't. In this UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming Hal Taussig describes some of the 10 books they've added and why.
U.S. Marine Corps Colonel George Fenton tells Anne Strainchamps about the military’s newest “non-lethal” weapon - active denial technology.
Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann are the founding members of the band Great Big Sea. Their music has its roots in Newfoundland traditional folk music, but it rocks!
Henry Alford is the author of "How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)".
Garry Kasparov may be the greatest chess player who ever lived. He tells Steve Paulson that he retired from the game to enter politics in his native Russia.
Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.
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