Jim Fleming hosts an event at the Wisconsin Book Festival featuring poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. Both poets read work eulogizing their fathers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Autism's a tricky diagnosis. And its causes are also mysterious. Harvard Medical School neurologist Martha Herbert t advocates a whole-body approach, which looks at environmental toxins, vitamin deficiencies and immune problems.
Did you know nature is good for you? Richard Louv can cite studies that show crime rates go up in cities with less green space.
Writer Mike Magnuson used to like being a lummox. Then he took up bicycling, and changed his life.
Steve Paulson talks with Pete Best who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr.
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
At the age of 28, Chinese pianist Lang Lang has already played with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and all of the top American orchestras.
There’s an emerging option for people with severe facial disfigurements. The first facial transplant happened in France in 2006. Since then about 30 people have undergone the grueling surgery. In 2012, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez led a team at the University of Maryland Medical Center that attempted the most extensive face transplant yet.
You can also listen to the extended interview with Dr. Rodriguez.
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