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.
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NPR's Robert Krulwich, co-host of RADIOLAB, says that the secret to good science reporting is to start at the beginning and go slowly so people can understand it.
Christian Rudder, the founder of OKCupid, thinks cupid’s arrow may just be an algorithm.
Writer and writing coach Natalie Goldberg tells Anne Strainchamps how two of the most important men in her life - her father and her Zen master – failed her.
Julia Glass tells Steve Paulson that writing the book was her way of dealing with unendurable emotional trauma.
Jill Fredston and her husband spend months every year rowing in the Arctic. And she tells a whale of a fish story!
Paul Feig is the creator of the short-lived TV show “Freaks and Geeks”. He tells Anne Strainchamps he and the other writers based the show on incidents from their own lives.
Michael Schaffer didn't want to be one of THOSE people who take excessive care of their pets, but found himself realizing that the line between normal and extreme has made a major shift in our culture in the last fifteen years.
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