Daniel Tammet has memorized the number pi into the tens of thousands of digits. He's learned new languages in a few weeks. He describes the gift - and the burden - of being an autistic savant.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Do nations need states? Do ethnic, religious, and/or linguistic groups of people – do they, in this age of globalization, do they need to form a country with borders and an army and all that comes along with that? Do they need to be a state?
Ersi Arvizu tells Jim Fleming about growing up longing to get involved in the sport of boxing. Her dad ran a boxing gym for boys in their backyard.
Christopher Byron tells Anne Strainchamps that the Martha Stewart public image is consistent and ubiquitous but has little to do with the real Martha Stewart.
Rapper Boots Riley is an activist who uses hip hop lyrics like a political weapon.
Poet and translator Coleman Barks talks with Anne Strainchamps about the 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi.
David Myers tells Jim Fleming humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy and seem to be much more resilient than they give themselves credit for.
In the days of tall ships and explorers, people collected exotic wonders in cabinets of curiosities, wunderkameren. Writer and teacher Heather McDougal has long loved those early days of science. Her blog's called "Cabinet of Wonders."
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