Steve Paulson talks with Bishop King, founder of the Church of St. John Coltrane, and with Ashley Kahn, author of “A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album.” We hear about the composition and album.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Psychologist Carol Gilligan tells Steve Paulson that her work with teenage girls has shown her that Americans cling to “tragic histories” and have forgotten how to experience joy.
Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Erik Trinkaus tells Steve Paulson that many of our assumptions about them, and our other "cave man" ancestors are just plain wrong.
We've turned our hearts over to software; 30 million Americans have online dating profiles. About one-fifth of all new relationships in North America start with people meeting online.
So far, the algorithms don't seem to know much more than we do, about what we're looking for.
Filmmaker Albert Nerenberg's Dangerous Idea? Laugh more.
You can also watch his laughter hack video.
For eight years Anu Garg has been sending e-mail to a half million people in two hundred countries around the world, but it's not spam. It's "A Word a Day," a message with a definition, the word's etymology and an example of how to use it.
Dr. Ted Kaptchuk tells Steve Paulson about the work of some Danish researchers who have concluded that “the Placebo effect” is a myth.
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