Brian Turner served as an infantry team leader with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Unit in Iraq. His book of poetry is called “Here, Bullet.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If you had to pick one writer, one poet, who has persistently reminded us of the connection between inner and outer landscapes it would be Terry Tempest Williams. She's advocated again and again for the preservation of wild places and the importance of national wilderness through books like “Refuge,” “Desert Quartet,” “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” and “When Women Were Birds.” She'll soon be releasing a new book -- “The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.”
Christian Lander sees himself as an expert on "Stuff White People Like".
Physicist Clifford Pickover talks with Steve Paulson about Magic Squares and why people get hooked on them.
Gabor Maté is a physician at OnSite, a Vancouver detox facility and the only supervised injection site in North America.
Cory Doctorow is a writer and digital activist who works to defend electronic freedom.
From the tiniest microscopic particles to some of the biggest structures on earth, the new science of astrobiology is leading the way to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe. Dimitar Sasselov explains why the creation of the world's first artificial cells will revolutionize lifeon our planet.
Cary Sudler returns to his ancestral home to apologize to the black members of his family for the injustice of slavery.
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