Darrin McMahon is the author of “Happiness: A History.” He tells Jim Fleming the Founding Fathers equated happiness with virtue...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brendan Halpin tells Steve Paulson about his early days as a teacher and why he stuck it out for several years.
Most people think of conflict as something to be avoided, but there's another way to view it -- as creative and generative. In his book "The Art of Rivalry," Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee explores how intense conflicts, broken friendships and personal reconciliations fueled some of the most dramatic breakthroughs in Modern Art. He tells Steve Paulson that the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse contributed, in part, to cubism.
Dan Janzen is one of the world’s leading tropical biologists. He’s discovered some 9,000 species of caterpillars in Costa Rica.
Megabyte, terabyte, gigabyte... web-watcher David Siegel says the web's just too data heavy. The answer is to stop duplicating and make all that data - particularly our personal data - more meaningful.
Colson Whitehead talks with Jim Fleming about and reads from “The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts,” his literary portrait of New York City.
"Gifts make slaves like whips make dogs" is an anthropologist's tale of inter-cultural difference in gift exchanges.
David Graeber takes us on a tour of gift giving, and gift economies. He also takes a swing at the question of whether it's possible to give a truly selfless gift.
Philosopher Daniel Dennett tells Steve Paulson why he finds ignorance of evolutionary biology so appalling.
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