Gershom Gorenberg talks with Steve Paulson about the site that the Jews call the Temple Mount which the Muslims revere as Al-Aqsa.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Guy Consolmagno is an American planetary researcher and a Jesuit priest. He's the curator of one of the world's great collections of meteorites, at the Vatican Observatory. He gets a lot of questions about how he can be both a priest and a scientist. Luckily, he has a sense of humor about it -- witness a recent appearance on the Colbert Report -- and believes science and religion can work together.
The kind of people who live in places like Jackson, Kentucky often get characterized as poor, white and angry. And worse, as redneck and racist – hillbilly white trash. J.D. Vance knows them well. They’re his people. He grew up in Kentucky coal country and the Ohio rust belt - places he left behind when he went to Yale Law School. Today he practices in Silicon Valley, but he’s just written a book called “Hillbilly Elegy," which should be required reading for this election year. Welcome to Jackson, Kentucky.
Geoff Gilpin, author of "The Maharishi Effect," tells Anne Strainchamps how he became interested in the Transcendental Meditation movement.
To mark the opening of the movie version of “The Sorcerer’s Stone,” an exploration of the phenomenal popularity of the Harry Potter books.
Why do so many people think they hate math? Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg says deep down inside, we all think mathematically. We just don't know it.
Gerald Clarke tells Steve Paulson that Judy’s mother introduced her to drugs; that she was exploited by the studio system; and that she had an amazing ability to pull herself together.
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.
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