For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.
Azby Brown is an American architect who lives in Tokyo. He tells Jim Fleming how a Japanese family of four can live comfortably in a house under 1000 square feet in size.
David Kilcullen was a top military advisor to General Petraeus during the troop surge in Iraq. He tells Anne Strainchamps that most counter-insurgency efforts fail because foreign armies usually galvanize opposition from local people.
Could the Internet feel happy or depressed? That's a distinct possibility, according to Christof Koch. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about computer consciousness, God, and just what it means that our brains have a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses. Koch wonders whether all matter might have consciousness.
David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
Dean Sluyter is a film critic and meditation teacher who combined his interests to write "Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies."
Bill Streever is an Alaskan biologist and a "cryophile" - someone who loves the cold. He describes what it's like to jump into freezing water as hypothermia starts to set in.
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