David Blight tells Jim Fleming that Americans on both sides played a role in whitewashing the history of the Civil War, in favor of a more unified nation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Clark Taylor is the author of a children’s book called “The House That Crack Built.” He tells Steve Paulson that kids know all about drugs and can handle the truth.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory by asking them 36 questions. Writer Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Avital Ronell has been called “the foremost thinker of the repressed conditions of knowledge.” She gives Jim Fleming an inspired take on stupidity.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight.
Long before the discovery of water on Mars or Matt Damon's star turn in The Martian, Robert Zubrin has been advocating for a human mission to mars. His book, The Case for Mars, made a splash when it was first published in 1996, and has continued to be influential in both scientific and science fiction circles. Zubrin calls Mars "the Rosetta Stone" for understanding life in the universe. But he's not just interested in science. He also thinks the sheer challenge would bring positive and uplifting change to all of humankind.
Carolyn McVickar Edwards reads “The Golden Earrings.” It’s one of the stories in her book “The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from around the World for the Winter Solstice.”
Benjamin Kilham rehabilitates and studies wild black bears. Steve Paulson spent a day with him as he visited a mother bear and two cubs that he’s keeping an eye on.
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