Rebecca Goldstein's Dangerous Idea? Teach children to be rigorous critical thinkers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of California/Berkeley tells Anne Strainchamps about some wild energy alternatives that actually work.
Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France. He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.
Dilshad Ali talks about reading the Christian-influenced Narnia tales to her children.
Eric Toso was walking home from a swimming pool when he was bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. It nearly killed him, but he had a spiritual awakening and found a new appreciation for living in the moment and respecting the Wild.
Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."
Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.
Gabe Hudson was a Marine Reservist whose unit served in the Gulf War. Hudson himself didn’t see combat, but based on his friends’ war stories, Hudson has written a book of surreal short stories.
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