Paul Stoller is an anthropologist who studied sorcery with the Songhay people in Niger. Years later he developed lymphoma and only then did he understand some of what his teacher had been trying to teach him.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness. He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners, and he's developing a new scientific model for studying emotion.
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A 93 year old bee-keeping Sherlock Holmes gets embroiled with the son of a former client in Japan, and forges a relationship with his new housekeeper's son.
When Katy Butler's aging father got a pacemaker, his life slid into dementia, incontinence and misery. Katy talks about choosing care over cure.
Robert Thurman tells Anne Strainchamps about the Buddhist concept of self and why it leads to compassion and understanding.
Lisa Tucker tells Anne Strainchamps that she thinks the songs that get stuck in our brains reveal a lot about us.
Oklahoma is famous for tornados. And the safest place to be in a tornado is a basement, right? Well in Oklahoma, they don’t have many basements. In fact, only 3 percent of homes have them. Why? Because people in Oklahoma think you can’t build basements in their soil.
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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