Dorie Greenspan talks about Paris desserts with Jim Fleming. Her latest book is “Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City’s Best Pastry Shops.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
Dave Foreman started as a lobbyist for the Wilderness Society in the 1970s. Then he became a radical and co-founded Earth First! becoming America's most admired and notorious environmentalist.
In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself.
That’s one themes that runs through “Children of the Days,” the latest book from the lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano.
You can also listen to the extended version of Steve's conversation with him.
Eric Kandel is one of the world's leading experts on memory. A Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, he talks about recent discoveries about the science of memory.
David Hajdu is the author of “Positively Fourth Street,” a book about Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and the folk/protest music scene of the 1960s.
Nearly 600,000 people are homeless on any given night in America, and despite the obstacles, some do ultimately find their way out. Victor McDonald is one who did.
Aubrey de Grey has identified seven categories of molecular and cellular damage. He says if we can prevent or repair that damage, there's no reason why people can't go on living indefinitely.
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