Music historian Will Friedwald talks with Steve Paulson about “As Time Goes By” and why we love it.
Music historian Will Friedwald talks with Steve Paulson about “As Time Goes By” and why we love it.
Stephen Batchelor wants contemporary Buddhists to re-think the life of the Buddha.
T.C. Boyle's new novel features a face-off between an animals rights activist and a biologist.
Salman Rushdie tells Steve Paulson about his very first memories of "The Wizard of Oz."
The Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible went missing? Where did it go?
This story was done in collaboration with Israel Story, the This American Life of Israel.
Science journalist Harriet Brown says the medical establishment has demonized fat and misrepresented the science behind dieting and weight loss. She unpacks the four most toxic medical myths about weight and health.
Persi Diaconis was a stage magician before he discovered probability theory and became one of the world's leading mathematicians. He tells us about some very powerful formulas derived from card shuffles and magic tricks.
The saddest music of all to many people is Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.”