Mishy Harman recommends "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Taylor was convicted of mass murder, rape, and sexual slavery, among other crimes this week by the ICC. One of his top warlords, infamous for using child soldiers, is seeking redemption. Listen to this NEW and UNCUT interview about General Butt Naked.
Keli Carender is a Tea Party activist – in fact, she was the very first Tea Party activist.
Bruce Greyson is considered the father of research into the Near Death Experience.
Benjamin Reiss tells Steve Paulson how P.T. Barnum got his start: exhibiting an elderly Black woman who claimed to be 161 years old and George Washington’s nanny.
Daniel Levitin runs McGill University's Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition and Expertise.
Breaking Bad actor Bob Odenkirk talks about the differences between writing comedy and performing it, his favorite moment as a writer, and comedy as an act of destruction.
Philosopher David Chalmers is famous for outlining the "hard problem of consciousness." In this EXTENDED INTERVIEW, he says the materialist framework of science will never be able to explain subjective experience - our thoughts and feelings, the expereince of joy or sorrow, self-awareness.
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