Dilshad Ali talks about reading the Christian-influenced Narnia tales to her children.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert's Dangerous Idea: human vices are just as important as human virtues in shaping evolution.
Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Pre-Modern hunter and gatherer cultures believed that dying was a kind of trial which didn't begin until you left your physical body and entered the supernatural world, according to sociologist Allan Kellehear. In these cultures, death is not the destruction of the body, but the annihilation of the personality and its transformation into something new.
Daniel Pauly tells Steve Paulson that technological changes in the modern fishery are wiping out vast populations of fish.
Bob Alper is a rabbi; Ahmed Ahmed is an actor and comedian. The two comics decided to perform together making use of their ethnicity to make people laugh.
Bryandt Urstadt tells Steve Paulson about the grim future the peak oilers are already getting ready for and thinks we should all buy gold.
Ever wonder why certain foods fall out of favor? In his book “The Gluten Lie” Alan Levinovitz argues that food has become akin to a modern religion for a lot of us, complete with its own set of rules, prohibitions and guiding beliefs.
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