Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher at Oregon State University, but her passion is an inhospitable island off the coast of Alaska. On Pine Island you can expect rain, fog, desolation, and a world of beauty that comes from the reality of natural surroundings.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.
Mark Moskowitz makes political ads. Moskowitz tells Steve Paulson about how political ads are made and about the art of the attack ad.
Michael Witzel is the author of “The American Diner.” He talks about the way Hollywood makes use of the diner.
Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?
Moustafa Bayoumi talks with Jim Fleming about how 9/11 caused him to feel like an outsider in his own country.
What’s happening in our brains when we talk or sing or play music? Are language and music different neural processes? Neuroscientist Charles Limb peaks into the mind of a particular kind of musician... rappers.
John Updike is celebrated as a novelist but is also an essayist and art critic.
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