Find out what brain imaging technology can tell us about the experiences of Franciscan nuns and Pentecostalists at prayer.
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The winner of our 3 Minute Futures flash fiction contest: "Social Scene Alert" by J.M. Perkins, from San Diego.
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.
Did we get Freud all wrong? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips says, "Yes." In this NEW and UNCUT interview, he tells Steve Paulson that we should read Freud as a great literary writer – on par with Kafka and Dostoevsky - not as a scientist of the mind. Phillips says we’ve barely begun to appreciate Freud’s radical insights.
Want a shot of inspiration? You'll find it at a great high school theater production. Michael Sokolove tells the story of Lou Volpe, a legendary drama coach in Levittown, PA.
Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”
Lars Svendsen talks about his book, "A Philosophy of Boredom."
Alain de Botton tells Steve Paulson that we all worry about our place in the pecking order and our lifestyle choices reflect our anxieties.
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