Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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If your mind is nothing more than brain chemistry, do you have free will? Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga says new brain science should change our thinking about this old philosophical question.
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Peter Watson tells Steve Paulson that the history of ideas can be organized according to three really big ideas – the soul, Europe and the experiment.
Joseph Persico talks about his book “Roosevelt’s Secret War.” Persico explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor prodded FDR to launch America’s first real intelligence network.
Neil Gaiman is among the most celebrated writers of the fantastic. He's a transplant to the Midwest who discovered the House on the Rock in Spring Green, WI...
Once we’ve passed through hard times, it comes to picking up the pieces of our lives.
For Jonathan Cott - after 36 ECT sessions erased 15 years of his memory - that was a real challenge.
One year ago 20 children and six school staff members were fatally shot in Newtown, Connecticut. In our hour on the wisdom of children this week, Muadh Bhavnagarwala and Jason Graves share their story of taking part in the memorial that followed the shootings. Listen in.
Noah Levine tells Anne Strainchamps how he’s combined the spiritual traditions of Buddhism with punk rock in his own life.
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