When it comes to loyalty, dogs win. Now, new evidence suggests dogs and early humans formed an alliance 36,000 years ago. Together, they drove Neanderthals to extinction, then invaded and conquered the rest of the planet.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rebecca Goldstein's Dangerous Idea? Teach children to be rigorous critical thinkers.
Earl Scruggs talks with Steve Paulson about his long history in blue grass and country music.
Chrisoula Andreou is a philosopher at the University of Utah who also contributed an essay to "The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination"...
Bill Hayes is the author of “Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.” Hayes tells Jim Fleming several nifty facts about the fluid that sustains us all.
David Perkins, founding member of Harvard think tank Project Zero, talks with Anne Strainchamps about Eureka Moments.
How exactly does social media allow someone in say, Tunis, to overthrow their government?
Over the last several years, new developments in personal health tracking products have multiplied exponentially. But human interest in measuring and tracking elements of our bodily needs stretches back hundreds of years. Professor Natasha Schüll discusses these current trends and their history, based on research she's done for a forthcoming book called "Keeping Track."
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