Singer/songwriter Robert Ellis Orrall talks about his fictional indie rock band, Monkey Bowl.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jaron Lanier loves the cephalopods, like the octopus and the squid.
Historian Jonathan Rose tells Steve Paulson that some members of the British working class in Victorian England and the early 20th century read the classics and used them as a means of intellectual emancipation.
Dr. Maden Kataria founded Laughter Clubs International – groups of people who meet to laugh aloud together.
Laurie King has written a series of novels featuring Mary Russell, a young woman who becomes Sherlock Holmes' partner and later his wife.
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.
Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"
Historian Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen talks to Steve Paulson about her book, "American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas."
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