Lorne Ladner tells Jim Fleming that accepting the inevitability of one’s own death leads a person to truly appreciate living while you can.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule. It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.
Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis talks about the possibility of upgrading our brains with computer chips.
Jason Cohen (with Steve Okazaki) made the wrenching documentary “Black Tar Heroin.” The film follows the lives of five young heroin addicts in San Francisco.
How close are we to electing a woman as president? Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close."
Historian Jeremi Suri gives a new take on the sixties. Suri says national leaders began to cooperate with each other because none of them could communicate with the youth at home.
Nell Casey tells Anne Strainchamps about her sister Maud, who suffered from manic-depression. Maud’s own strength, coupled with the heroic support of her family enabled her to recover.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about the power of our tendency to make snap judgements and how important it is for our survival as a species.
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