Steve Venwright put out a CD called “The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor.” McGregor talks in his sleep like you’ve never heard before.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Essayist Susan Ehrlich is a practicing pediatrian who remembers what it was like treating her father during his final hours.
Tim Friend has written a book about Archaea - a kind of microbe that doesn't fit into any of the traditional categories of life.
One more story from Walter Moskowitz, the last of the Bowery Scab Merchants. Walter tattoos 80 men in a day.
Dame Evelyn Glennie is considered one of the greatest percussionists alive today. She’s also deaf.
To watch/listen to her perform CLICK HERE.
Today, the Dutch philosopher Spinoza - father of the Enlightenment - is revered, but in the mid-17th century, he was branded a heretic by his Jewish congregation in Amsterdam. Recently, philosopher Steve Nadler was asked if Spinoza should be exonerated. He explains why he said no.
Jane Austen abandoned her novel "Lady Susan," but filmmaker Whit Stillman has revivied it - in a new film and novel, both called "Love and Friendship." He talks about why he loves Austen and the 18th century.
Rudolph Bell tells Jim Fleming that Italian parents of 500 years ago had some very modern ideas about child rearing. And a few wacky ones about pre-determining the sex of your baby.
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