Film-maker David Lynch is a long–time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Why do certain foods fall out of favor? Aaron Bobrow-Strain tracked the rise and fall of white bread for a book on the subject. He believes our anxieties about food often reflect larger social questions.
Errol Morris talks with Steve Paulson about Robert McNamera who is the subject of his latest film, “The Fog of War.”
Historian Deborah Harkness has transmuted her expertise in early alchemy and Elizabethan magic into a pair of best-selling novels, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. We talk with her about the connections between magic and science.
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As part of the series on death and dying Dan Pierotti and his wife Judy invited us in to the last months of Dan's life. Here's the
Biologist Cindy Engel tells Steve Paulson that wild animals self-medicate in a number of ways and that there is really no difference for animals between nutrition and medicine.
There are lots of ways we identify ourselves – where we come from, our race, our religion… but perhaps nothing shapes our identity more than whether we’re a man or a woman. But even that can get really complicated. Independent producer Aubrey Ralph explains.
Ben Folds is fascinated with the human voice, especially in the genre of A Cappella music.
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