Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist who risked his life reporting for the New York Times from his homeland -- Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban-controlled Pashtun area. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, but had to leave his country.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cape Breton fiddler Natalie McMaster says that she’s been step dancing and playing the fiddle since she was a child.
A discussion of what makes a successful children’s picture book. Participants include: Kevin Henkes, Uri Shulevitz, and Barbara Barstow.
Sacks had a particular fascination with the ways our brains can play tricks on our vision. He also reveals his own lifelong struggle to recognize the faces of other people.
Michael Shermer explains why he and like-minded scientific people don’t think much of Mark Vicente's film, “What the Bleep Do We Know”.
Rocker Nick Cave talks with Steve Paulson about the relative freedom of writing prose versus song-writing...
Joe Regenstein teaches food science at Cornell. He tells Steve Paulson about the rigorous inspections involved in getting a food accepted as kosher.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
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