Brian Turner served as an infantry team leader with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Unit in Iraq. His book of poetry is called “Here, Bullet.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Some people used to complain that the movie didn't live up to the book. Now they're saying the movie doesn't live up to its sequel.
If you had to pick one writer, one poet, who has persistently reminded us of the connection between inner and outer landscapes it would be Terry Tempest Williams. She's advocated again and again for the preservation of wild places and the importance of national wilderness through books like “Refuge,” “Desert Quartet,” “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” and “When Women Were Birds.” She'll soon be releasing a new book -- “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.”
David Benjamin tells Steve Paulson that in those days, adults left kids pretty much alone, but relied on a network of neighbors to keep tabs on things.
Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
We're celebrating National Poetry Month this year by reading some of our favorite poems. Here's Charles with Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart."
Nick Bostrom's Dangerous Idea? Societies should limit the development of harmful technologies while promoting beneficial ones.
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
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