NBA superstar LeBron James is coming home to Cleveland. So what does it mean for his fans in this blighted rust belt area? Charles Monroe-Kane talks with his fellow Northeast Ohio comrade, journalist David Giffels.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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You know poems can be different things to different people: solace, a call to action, beauty. A reflection on war. But to Rae Armantrout there’s one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Psychologist Martin Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association. He tells Jim Fleming about his philosophy of “Positive Psychology.”
Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not. The young science of astrobiology is closing in on a discovery that will rock our world: there IS life beyond earth. New telescopes, new missions, and new discoveries in outer space and in the most remote areas of our own planet all point to one conclusion. Extra terrestrial life exists, and we're very close to finding it. Science writer Marc Kaufman explains what's changed.
Alan Dale says laughing at slapstick is - at its heart - an expression of our sympathy with TV and film characters who get hurt. He says it's also relief that, for once, it's not us in pain.
Novelist Jane Hamilton remembers her old piano teacher and their battles over practicing.
Orville Schell tells Jim Fleming that Westerners have always romanticized Tibet. He’s observed it for years and concedes that even under Chinese domination, Tibet remains a unique and entrancing place.
Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.
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