Aubrey Ralph explains his enthusiasm for the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Palmer has been a staff writer at Fortune magazine, Beijing bureau chief for US News and World Report and a correspondent for CNN. He tells Anne Strainchamps that none of that prepared him for Iraq where he was embedded with the First Battalion/Second Marines.
Last summer's sleeper hit was a book by David Wroblewski called "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle." Wroblewski reads from his novel and talks with Jim Fleming about his life in Wisconsin as the child of a family who raised dogs.
Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland talks to Steve Paulson about his unconventional McLuhan biography, "Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!"
Author of "Waiting for Snow in Havana" started to worry about death as a child, growing up in Cuba during an era of public executions ...
Franz Lidz is the author of "Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders."
Physicist Leonard Mlodinow and spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra debate their conflicting worldviews on science and the origins of consciousness.
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor says we're now living in "a secular age," but we're still trying to figure out what a post-religious world looks like, and how we can find meaning in a culture without any over-arching purpose.
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