There's a nagging question at major sporting events: Are the athletes cheating? Steroids, human growth hormones and blood doping techniques are extending the outer limits of performance, and athletes can use them if they want -- unless they're professionals or Olympic athletes. But is doping really a problem? Australian philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a simple litmus test: What contribution is coming from the technology and what is coming from the athlete?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
Rajiv Joseph is a New York playwright. He tells Jim Fleming he wrote “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” based on a small newspaper story...
When Stephen Wolfram was 17, he dropped out of college. By the time he was 21, he had a Ph.D. in physics and was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur Genius Award. Today, he is the CEO of Wolfram Research and owner of one of the largest individual datasets in the world.
Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page and the procrastination that leads to.
Richard Schweid loves eels. He tells Steve Paulson that scientists know very little about their life cycle, but that their numbers seem to be declining.
Can you actually see creativity in the brain? Neuroscientist Rex Jung describes brain imaging studies of creativity in action.
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