David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."
Francesco Sbano tells Steve Paulson about the culture of Calabria in Southern Italy and the importance of respect and honor.
Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.
Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Codebreaker, a new film by Patrick Sammon, tells the story of the brilliant life and tragic death of Alan Turing. He died at age 41, having revolutionized our world by inventing the first computer programs -- and then computers themselves.
Reporter Benson Gardner visited several raves for this report on the music, the drug use, the participants and the response from the community.
Death is the one that no one can survive. Unless… well, it depends on just how dead you are.
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