Neuro-scientist Robert Provine, author of “Laughter: A Scientific Investigation,” tells Steve Paulson about a two year laughing jag in Tanzania.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lizzie Gottlieb has a younger brother with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. She made a film, "Today's Man," about his abortive efforts to get a job and move out of his parents' brownstone in New York.
Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"
Katrina Browne produced and directed the documentary "Traces of the Trade" in an effort to come to terms with her family's legacy of slave trading. Browne talks with Jim Fleming and we hear excerpts from her film.
John Taliaferro is the author of “Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore.”
Creationist Paul Nelson, a fellow at the Discovery Institute, makes the case for his point of view.
Historian Maria Rosa Menocal tells Anne Strainchamps about the Golden Age for European Jews when the Moors established an Islamic state in Spain.
Joseph Kanon is the author of “The Good German.” It’s a novel about the American occupation of Berlin after WWII when American soldiers faced many of the same problems they’re seeing now in Iraq.
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