Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.
Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia. His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.
John Spalding is a humor columnist for the on-line magazine Belief Net, and the author of “A Pilgrim’s Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City.”
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku thinks that nature is God's greatest creation.
Rob Walker talks with Steve Paulson about the Subservient-Chicken-dot-com web site and why it’s a new kind of advertising.
Steve Paulson talks with Jorgen Nielsen and Sam Cherribi about the influence of the growing numbers of Muslims who have immigrated to Europe.
Sometimes making music new is as simple as adding a few new elements. For ground-breaking jazz composer Maria Schneider, that meant adding words to her work.
Pages
