Psychiatrist Charles Grob is studying how psilocybin — the psychoactive component of magic mushrooms - can reduce death anxiety for end-stage cancer patients. His results, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, show that giving psilocybin to terminally ill people may help patients anxiety and depression about the end of end of life.
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Christopher Taylor talks with Jim Fleming about his recent series of concerts where he performed all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas, from memory.
Colum McCann tells Steve Paulson what made Rudolf Nureyev the greatest dancer of his time and that his life was shaped by his ambition and his physical beauty.
Arturo Marcano tells Steve Paulson about the exploitative system of player development in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic that fuels the American major leagues.
Dan Zanes is winning Grammys for his music, often categorized as children's music, but as Zanes tells Anne Strainchamps, his music is for all ages.
Charles Mann tells Steve Paulson how there got to be two Bayer companies making aspirin; how it was marketed in South America, and what makes Anacin different from aspirin.
David Syring is descended from the German immigrants who settled the Texas Hill Country. He tells Jim Fleming about his problematical grandfather, and why he still feels rooted to his family's home place.
Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.
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