Popular advice columnist, NPR contributer and Freeville, NY-born author Amy Dickinson joins Michael on stage!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rose O’Neale Greenhow, a Southerner by birth and conviction, became a social power in Washington and ran a successful spy ring for the Confederacy.
Have you every actually read Thoreau's "Walden"? If not, you've really missed something. Here's the next best thing: excerpts from the book, set to music.
Alain de Botton tells Steve Paulson how modern readers can derive comfort from philosophy, and sees no conflict between talking about serious ideas and entertaining the reader.
Andreas Viestad is host of PBS’ “New Scandinavian Cooking.” He tells stories from the location filming of the series.
Alex Stone is a magician with a degree in physics. He performs a magic trick over the radio and explains how it works.
To hear one of Alex Stone's favorite bar tricks, listen here.
Amir Aczel tells Jim Fleming that your odds on a coin toss are always 50/50, no matter how many times you do it.
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action.
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