Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay are the sons of the first men to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Both men are climbers and have made a documentary film called “Surviving Everest” for National Geographic which details their own expedition up the mountain.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar edited an anthology of verse called “Urban Nature.” She talks about it with Jim Fleming and reads some of her favorites.
Lynn Peril is the author of “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.” She tells Steve Paulson that an idealized feminine identity was marketed to women to get them to buy all sorts of things, from beauty products to toys.
Katherine Monk talks with Anne Strainchamps about Canadian cinema, and we hear examples from the work of Guy Maddin and Atom Egoyan.
Pnina Moed Kass is an American who's lived in Israel for over 35 years. She's written a novel about a suicide bombing and the people whose lived are affected by it.
Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
John Alderman tells Steve Paulson that once young people figured out how to share music on the Internet, the floodgates were opened.
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
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