Daniel B. Smith tells Anne Strainchamps that both his father and grandfather heard voices, but led perfectly ordinary lives.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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No matter what genre you’re writing for, adding a cello can increase the melancholy.
Social critic Bill McKibben says we’re rushing through a momentous doorway into a new age of human evolution
David Hajdu recently wrote a controversial article for The New Republic about the legacy of Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father made field recordings of thousands of folk and blues songs including work by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters.
Charles Duhigg bookmarks "The Children" by David Haberstam.
“I learned virtually nothing about mortality when I was in medical school,” Dr. Atul Gawande says. “I was terrible at knowing how to have a successful conversation with people facing terminal illness.” Gawande, author of the bestselling “Being Mortal,” is now trying to get people talking about better ways to live out the final chapter.
Journalist Naomi Klein is in Paris covering the Climate Summit. She says if we're serious about climate change, we need to confront capitalism itself.
Chuck Taggart talks about New Orleans’ rich musical history, and we hear many examples.
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