Jim Elledge is the co-editor (with Susan Swartwout) of “Real Things,” an anthology of poetry that references popular culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michelle Kennedy tells Anne Strainchamps how she ended up homeless and how she managed to support herself and her three children.
Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Matthew Scully is a speech writer for President Bush and the author of “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering if Animals and the Call to Mercy.” Michael Pollan is a writer and the author of “The Botany of Desire.”
Ray McGovern is one of the founders of Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity and worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years.
Pat Willard tells Steve Paulson that saffron is more than just a spice. It's rare and difficult to harvest but has an ancient history as a food additive, hair and skin dye, and as an aphrodisiac.
John Emsley talks about the Periodic Table of the Elements, and why science, and the teaching of science, should be fun.
With all that New York has to offer, Robert Sullivan chose to spend his time in a dark alley in Manhattan observing rats.
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