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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. welcome comedian paula poundstone, this self-determined doubting thomas was determined to find the secret to lasting happiness and tried a series of experiments. in her new book. it s called the totally unscientific study for the search for human happiness. why a self-proclaimed doubting thomas? i ll tell you. my book is a series of experiments, as you say, doing things that i or other people thought would make me happy, and every chapter s written as an experiment with a hypothesis and the conditions and the variables and hopefully the funniest field notes ever written, but the question for me wasn t whether i would enjoy doing something. the question was, what could i do that would give me, you know, a little lasting something. you know what i mean? like when i finished doing it i wouldn t have an umbrella, so to speak, for the inevitable rains of one s daily life, so the analysis of each c
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. welcome comedian paula poundstone, this self-determined doubting thomas was determined to find the secret to lasting happiness and tried a series of experiments. in her new book. it s called the totally unscientific study for the search for human happiness. why a self-proclaimed doubting thomas? i ll tell you. my book is a series of experiments, as you say, doing things that i or other people thought would make me happy, and every chapter s written as an experiment with a hypothesis and the conditions and the variables and hopefully the funniest field notes ever written, but the question for me wasn t whether i would enjoy doing something. the question was, what could i do that would give me, you know, a little lasting something. you know what i mean? like when i finished doing it i wouldn t have an umbrella, so to speak, for the inevitable rains of one s daily life, so the analysis of each c
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. professor dlark armstrong dunbar is an author. her latest book is called never caught. the washingtons relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, ona judge. it is the life of the slave in the first family and is a look at the washingtons and slavery. thank you, thank you, thank you. this book gives us a new way of seeing george washington. tell me more. it does. it was my goal when i wrote this book to tell a story about the founding of the nation, but through the eyes of the enslaved. not through a typical founding fathers. so ona judge s life gives us the ability to do that. she moves throughout the new nation and gives us a portal into the south, the mid-atlantic, and the north. i wasn t whispering to you but saying to you when you came on the set. it was fascinating to me to see the extent to which george washington told on himself with the almanac, the copious notes he was taking every da
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. professor dlark armstrong dunbar is an author. her latest book is called never caught. the washingtons relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, ona judge. it is the life of the slave in the first family and is a look at the washingtons and slavery. thank you, thank you, thank you. this book gives us a new way of seeing george washington. tell me more. it does. it was my goal when i wrote this book to tell a story about the founding of the nation, but through the eyes of the enslaved. not through a typical founding fathers. so ona judge s life gives us the ability to do that. she moves throughout the new nation and gives us a portal into the south, the mid-atlantic, and the north. i wasn t whispering to you but saying to you when you came on the set. it was fascinating to me to see the extent to which george washington told on himself with the almanac, the copious notes he was taking every da