Betsy Lerner tells Anne Strainchamps about her long history with Overeaters Anonymous, bi-polar disorder, depression, psychiatric hospitalization and binge eating.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Blogger Mark Manson on embracing our negativity as a means of consciously choosing what we really care about.
Robin Chase is the co-founder of ZipCar. Her Dangerous Idea? A universal basic income.
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
Chandler Burr's new book explains Luca Turin’s theory of how we smell and recounts his amazing ability to recognize the odor of particular molecules.
In her new memoir, "Ongoingness," Sarah Manguso talks about how keeping a diary—so often considered a virture—for her became a vice. But her obsessive diary keeping changed with the birth of her first child.
David Margolick is the author of “Strange Fruit,” a history of the revolutionary Billie Holiday song. Margolick tells Jim Fleming who wrote the song, what happened the first time Holiday sang it, and what it’s lasting impact has been.
Is there anything science won't tackle? The lastest question, "What is beauty?" We talk with two neuroscientists and an art historian about the new field of neuroaesthetics.
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