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Zen Buddhist Abbot Joan Halifax has been sitting with dying people since 1970. She says the experience has been a profound gift. She says that she has no idea what happens after we die, and that she's comfortable with that mystery.
“Alif the Unseen” is steeped in an old tradition. It’s a book of magic about a book of magic.
Psychiatrist Allen Peterkin tells Steve Paulson that beards make people think of either Santa Claus or Satan, and that facial hair is making a comeback.
A loaf of fluffy white store-bought bread may look innocent -- but conceals a rich political and economic history. Aaron Bobrow-Strain charts the rise and fall of white bread and reveals what's really at stake when we argue about food.
Another winning entry in our 3 Minute Futures flash fiction contest, this story comes from Michelle Clay in Massachusetts.
Anne Matthews tells Anne Strainchamps that there’s been an explosion of wildlife in America’s towns and cities.
In the mid-1930's, Alan Turing made the revolutionary discovery that launched the digital age. He proved that information can be translated and communicated using nothing but a series of ones and zeroes. And that was just the first of Turing's intellectual achievements. Biographer Andrew Hodges explained Turing's genius to Jim Flemming in 2012.
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