Robert Kull chose to live completely alone off the coast of Chile for a year. He tells Anne Strainchamps the hardest part was the mental challenges he faced, not the weather or coping with his prosthetic leg.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mark Helprin reads from his new book, “The Pacific and Other Stories,” and talks with Jim Fleming about what really matters in life: courage, integrity, compassion.
Jill Gusman is a chef and the author of “Vegetables from the Sea: Everyday Cooking with Sea Greens.” She gives Anne Strainchamps some of her favorite seaweed recipes.
No matter how much we learn about the brain, Sacks says we may never understand how the mind works. In this interview, he marvels at how the human brain is fine-tuned to respond to music.
Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
Novelist John Colapinto reads from and tells Jim Fleming about his book “About the Author,” in which a writer steals a manuscript from his room-mate and claims it as his own.
Katie Salen is a game designer, interactive designer, animator, and design educator. She talks to Anne Strainchamps about what children can learn from designing and playing games.
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.
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