Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert's Dangerous Idea: human vices are just as important as human virtues in shaping evolution.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A young man named Black Nature is one of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars. He tells how the group formed while fleeing from the brutality and bloodshed of their country's civil war.
Diana Butler Bass says we're now living in a post-religious age. What's surprising is how many people are abandoning organized religion, but not God.
Anthony Loyd tells Steve Paulson why he decided to move to Sarajevo and call himself a photojournalist; what living there during the war was like; and how he ended up with a heroin habit.
Ayun Halliday tells Anne Strainchamps about being a young, hip Mom, and how motherhood is different from her expectations.
Clinical psychologist Daniel Goleman talks about how his discovery of Buddhist psychology shaped his life and career, as well as his best-selling book, "Emotional Intelligence."
Mary Walsh has made a career out of comedy. Still, she's not quite sure she's funny.
Listen in as she talks about political humor, sketch comedy and why it might be easier for outsiders to find funny.
Looking for a clip of her in action? Here it is.
Christine Kenneally tells Steve Paulson that Noam Chomsky thought language was hard-wired in the human brain, but later researchers have shown that its development is even more complex.
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