Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Lee Smolin weighs in on creative problem solving in physics. Some advice that has served him? Start fresh every ten years.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sometimes beginning again means leaving an old life behind.
For Michelle Kennedy and her three children, that led to living in their car.
Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
For most of us, pain is a sign of physical injury. Generally the pain fades as the injury heals. But for people with Behcet's Syndrom pain is a constant companion.
Jimmy Palmieri tells Anne Strainchamps about his practice of praying the pain away.
Michael Gershon talks about the science behind “gut instinct” and says most of the body’s serotonin is in the gut, not the brain.
Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker. He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have been photographing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 30 years. They talk about the conditions in the prison - nicknamed Angola, for the plantation that was formerly on the site - and how they've changed over time. When they see the inmates working in the fields, they say, it looks a lot like slavery.
Jimmy Santiago Baca is a champion of the International Poetry Slam, and the author of four books of verse. He talks with Steve Paulson about the power of poetry and reads some of his own verse.
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