Lynda Barry reminisces about her favorite monsters.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michelle Paver has had a lifelong fascination with the Stone Age. She's studied anthropology, and she's lived with the Inuit in Alaska and the Sami in Lapland. She used these experiences to write her series of novels, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.
Welcome to the 21st Centrury and the Biopunk Movement where biohacking and kitchen table biotech are the norm.
Raphael Kadushin is a senior travel writer for Conde Nast magazines, and author of "Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing."
Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a visionary economist who founded the micro-credit movement and India's Grameen Bank.
Mark Moskowitz made a film called “The Stone Reader” about his search for Dow Mossman, the author of a rapturously reviewed 1972 novel called “The Stones of Summer.”
Paleontologist Peter Ward tells Steve Paulson that big carnivores are unlikely to survive outside zoos but creatures that can survive around humans - like rats and coyotes - will thrive in the future.
Travel writer Jeff Greenwald tells travel stories to Jim Fleming and explains why he thinks that since September 11th, it’s more important than even that people try to understand other lands.
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