Leszek Pawlowicz is a computer consultant who doubles as a professional game show contestant. He says he’s not brilliant, he just has a memory that retains facts.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Peter Cordani is CEO of Dyn-O-Mat. He invents things. Like Dyn-O-Storm - a polymer gel that can be sprayed on clouds to make them go away.
Jill Sprecher is an optimist while her sister Karen is a pessimist. Or is it the other way around? Jill directed “Thirteen Conversations About One Thing” while Karen wrote the screenplay.
Nicholas Shakespeare tells Steve Paulson that Chatwin was a man of mystery and paradox who was willing to toy with the strictly factual to preserve an emotional truth. We also hear travel writer Paul Theroux comment on Chatwin, a long-time friend.
Oklahoma is famous for tornados. And the safest place to be in a tornado is a basement, right? Well in Oklahoma, they don’t have many basements. In fact, only 3 percent of homes have them. Why? Because people in Oklahoma think you can’t build basements in their soil.
Piri Thomas is best known for his classic memoir “Down These Mean Streets.” Now in his mid-70's, Thomas is still active as an educator and activist with juvenile offenders.
Poet Mary Rose O'Reilly talks with Anne Strainchamps about the archaeology of memory and reads some of her work.
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