Find out what brain imaging technology can tell us about the experiences of Franciscan nuns and Pentecostalists at prayer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alex Gibney is the director of the Academy Award winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side."
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.
Novelist Amy Tan takes on the comic misunderstandings that arise when Americans seek enlightenment in China in her new novel.
In his book "The Ethics of Voting," Georgetown philosopher Jason Brennan argues that we'd be better off if more people stayed home on Election Day. He says citizens don't have a civic duty to vote, and that some of us probably shouldn't vote at all.
Ann Marlowe describes her heroin habit in a memoir called “How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z.”
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Color Purple." She talks with Jim Fleming about "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth".
Hip hop artist and poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre has his own set of responses to being told to man up. Ten to be exact.
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