Happy Valentine's Day! Looking for a new take on love? Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has been studying the emotion and has a new definition. In this EXTENDED interview, she also talks about how to build more of it into our days.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Andrew Sullivan says the real conflict after September 11th is between religious absolutists with a medieval mindset and the cultural values of the West - freedom and individuality.
Ahmed Rashid worked as an advisor to Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special envoy to the Pakistani region and says the U.S. was never really interested in the Afghanistan's real problems when we rush in.
Anousheh Ansari became the first Muslim woman to venture into space when she traveled aboard the International Space Station.
Alison Bechdel calls her comic book memoir Are You My Mother? “a comic drama.” The New York Times Book Review calls it “as complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.” Here’s Steve Paulson’s NEW and UNCUT interview with Bechdel.
Arabic interperter Kayla Williams served in Iraq as a sergeant in a military intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division.
Ana Castillo talks with Jim Fleming about her own Mexican-American heritage and how she uses it in her novel about a flamenco dancer with polio.
Anne Allison is the author of "Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination." She talks to Anne Strainchamps about the universal appeal of Japanese pop culture.
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