Bart Plantenga tells Steve Paulson about the global reach of yodeling – from Switzerland to Africa to popular music and film...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Edward Castronova talks to Jim Fleming about M.M.O.R.P.G.'s, "Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.
It can be awkward to receive gifts. Especially if they’re gifts you don’t really want. The same goes for help.
Haddayr Copley- Woods has been grappling with how to handle unwanted help since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Editor Chris Kubica talks about his project, “Letters to J.D. Salinger.” Kubica asked dozens of authors to sound off to Salinger by writing him letters - even if Salinger will never read them.
With more than a billion Muslims in the world, many of whom supposedly hate the U.S., why haven't there been more terrorist attacks? Charles Kurzman says the important story about Muslim terrorism is how little of it there is.
A compilation of Anne Strainchamps talking with Bill Penzey of Penzeys Spices about vanilla, fennel seed, and nutmeg.
Cultural critic Cintra Wilson thinks American’s fascination with fame is a grotesque, crippling disease. She tears into it in her book “A Massive Swelling.”
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."
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