Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano tells Steve Paulson that our ideas about spirits and the soul can be entirely explained by new insights from brain science.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
Jim Fleming reads excerpts from Murakami's book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running."
Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's best known writers. We sample an excerpt from her psychological thriller, Real World.
When President Obama took office, the Democratic Party was riding high, and the Republican Party, some thought, was on its way out. No one paid much attention to the Tea Party. Times have changed.
Pearl S. Buck’s last novel, “ The Eternal Wonder” was discovered last year in a storage locker in Texas. Anne Strainchamps talked with her son and literary executor, Edgar Walsh, about his mother’s life and legacy and her difficult last years.
John Haught believes these so called "new atheists" simply don't measure up to the old athiests like Nietzsche and Camus.
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