What did FDR understand about democracy that our current political leaders – on both sides of the aisle – have forgotten.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jean Auel is the author of the phenomenally successful “Earth’s Children” series of books. Auel tells Anne Strainchamps about the extensive hands on research that informs her work.
So romance is about sex, right? By definition?
Not so, says David Jay. He founded the Asexual Visibility & Education Network.
Jonathan Haidt talks with Jim Fleming about an often-overlooked emotion - elevation.
Karen Wenborn tells Jim Fleming about Classical Comics which have published three versions of Shakespeare plays, pairing various versions of the texts with bright, action-packed, comic book style visuals.
Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained brain scientist who suffered a devastating stroke and describes the event and her long struggle to recover in her book, "My Stroke of Insight."
Richard Nisbett argues that parenting styles have an enormous impact on the IQ of children and so does simply telling middle-school children that influencing their IQ is within their control.
Julia Alvarez tells Anne Strainchamps that she raises coffee on a small farm in the Dominican Republic and explains how it influences her writing.
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