Poltergeists, ghosts, telepathy and other psychic phenomena used to be considered legitimate subjects for scientific research. Historian Jeffrey Kripal recounts the intellectual history of the paranormal.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Chilean-born artist Alfredo Jaar has spent much of his career regarding the pain of others. He delves into issues like war or globalization with giant installations and photos. But his work does not take use a grand scale, instead, he drills down to one individual. His most famous work is 6-year project on the Rwandan Genocide called “The Rwanda Project.”
Doug Gordon found Steve Nieve in Chicago and talked with him about his music and his collection of sounds.
Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was the rare book that changed how we think. On its 50th anniversary, historian of science Tom Broman talks about Kuhn's legacy and we hear excerpts from Kuhn's book.
Master gardener Sharon Lovejoy tells Anne Strainchamps that there’s a lot of truth in old wives’ tales about gardens and shares her solutions for getting rid of pests from aphids to deer.
What would it be like to walk on Mars? Nature writer Craig Childs thinks it would be like trekking in some of Earth's most forbidding environments - deserts and Arctic ice fields.
Sandor Katz is the guru of the fermentation revival. He explores the roots of our culture in all things cultured.
Commentator Marily Pittman shares her story of love at first sight.
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