Emily Parker bookmarks Mario Vargas Llosa's "Conversation in the Cathedral."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nick Bostrom's Dangerous Idea? Societies should limit the development of harmful technologies while promoting beneficial ones.
Sacred music provided comfort and hope to generations of African Americans, from slavery to the civil rights movement. Music historian Robert Darden tells this inspiring story and we hear lots of great music.
Anthony Loyd tells Steve Paulson why he decided to move to Sarajevo and call himself a photojournalist; what living there during the war was like; and how he ended up with a heroin habit.
Carolin Emcke tells Steve Paulson that what war survivors ask for most often is the chance to tell her their stories.
Elaine Scarry's a defender of beauty. She says not only does beauty thrill and compel us, it also inspires us to make the world more just. Here's our extended interview with her.
Bruce Campbell, (to his chagrin) still best known as “Ash” from “The Evil Dead” movies, talks with Jim Fleming about his memoir, “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor.”
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.
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