Actor and producer George Bartenieff put together and performs a one man play called "I Will Bear Witness" based on the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who survived the Third Reich.
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Charles Duhigg, a reporter for the New York Times, has been researching the scientific and social history of habits for his new book, The Power of Habit. In it, he discusses the unique ways that habits shape our lives, both neurologically and practically. He learned that habits are powerfully hardwired into your brain — and stored separately from your memories — making them rather easy to develop and very difficult to change.
Greg Critser is a veteran science and medical journalist. He's the author of three critically acclaimed books, most recently, "Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging."
Antoinette Varner says that to truly know our selves, just drop who you think you are, and pay attention to the "I". In this UNCUT interview, Varner - who's also known as Gangaji - talks with Steve Paulson about grappling with narrative identity, and moving beyond it.
Is it actually possible to give a truly selfless gift? Anthropologist David Graeber says it's not only impossible, the entire idea of a "free gift" is nothing but a construct born in opposition to impersonal market economies. In other words, it’s you know, complicated.
Maybe feminism is a moot point. According to journalist Hanna Rosin, in the rapidly changing world we live in, women are far outpacing men. She writes about the trend in her book "The End of Men."
Geoff Gilpin, author of "The Maharishi Effect," tells Anne Strainchamps how he became interested in the Transcendental Meditation movement.
The sense of home, of feeling safe and secure, is so essential to our everyday lives. Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen believes there’s a deeper significance to that pull back home. He believes the home is one of the most important inventions in our evolution, one that marked our shift from nest-building apes to humans. Steve Paulson caught up with him to find out why.
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