Persi Diaconis is a former stage magician who uses card shuffling and coin tossing to illustrate complex mathematical formulae.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reza Aslan seems to admire what Obama said in his recent Cairo speech but says Muslims will wait to see if the actions of the United States reflect its leader's words.
In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term "near death experience" and published the first definitive account of patients who described dying and coming back to life. He tells Steve Paulson what he's come to believe after listening to thousands of reports.
Laney Salisbury talks about the 1925 dogsled relay that brought diphtheria anti-serum to ice-bound Nome, Alaska which was facing an epidemic in the dead of winter. Dogsleds were the only way in and the whole nation followed their perilous journey by telegraph.
Jeff Bursey is a Canadian author and reviewer whose new book is called "Verbatim: A Novel."
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Some of the country's leading neuro-biologists are collaborating with Buddhist monks in an effort to understand the effects of meditation on the mind and the brain.
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