Paul Hawken is the author of "Blessed Unrest." He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the quantity and variety of people and organizations involved in the global activism movement.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher at Oregon State University, but her passion is an inhospitable island off the coast of Alaska. On Pine Island you can expect rain, fog, desolation, and a world of beauty that comes from the reality of natural surroundings.
The clay tablets found at the Greek palace of Knossos had one of the strangest languages ever discovered. Margalit Fox tells the story of Linear B - and the obsessed, tragic lives of the two people who devoted their lives to cracking the code.
Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.
With the international community sending doctors and resources to help stop Ebola's spread across West Africa, we turn to medical historian Gregg Mitman to help us understand the history behind how people are responding to the outbreak.
Joel Kotkin tells Anne Strainchamps how the power of e-commerce is changing where and how we live. He says that knowledge workers choose to live in nerdistans and valhallas.
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.
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