We meet the Surfing Rabbi. Nachum Shifren tells Anne Strainchamps about the connection between surfing and mysticism.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Writer Mike Magnuson tells Steve Paulson that people make assumptions about him because of his size and appearance, describes his work history as a grunt.
Princeton historian Robert Darnton says that people in 18th century Paris spread the news by making up topical songs to familiar melodies, and that the police kept records on everybody.
Jo Tatchell and Nabeel Yasin talk about poetry in Iraq, how Yasin got out of the country, and what it was like for him to go back after 27 years.
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's best-known writers on religion, but her own spiritual path hasn't been easy. She tells us why she joined a convent and then left - and how she later came to appreciate religious texts.
Jerome Wakefield tells Steve Paulson how the medical profession's attempts to make precise diagnoses have led them to define emotional states as medical conditions.
Leonard Todd wrote "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave" to explore the history of two families - Potter Dave's and his own.
Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.
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