Christa Weil talks about eating national dishes like putrefied shark meat and her curious experience eating blow fish in Japan.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Carole Case wrote a history of New York’s Jockey Club, the elite cartel that controls the thoroughbred stud book.
Ever heard of gold-farming? Cory Doctorow talks about some ways people get ahead in multi-player video games.
Clayton Eshleman is a poet who’s turned his poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux in France. He talks about these drawings represent shamanic spirit journeys and rituals.
Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly 20 books on religion. She tells Steve Paulson that traditions from Confucianism to Judaism emerged as responses to the rampant violence of their time. And she says our own time has a lot in common with that age.
Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert's Dangerous Idea: human vices are just as important as human virtues in shaping evolution.
Bennett Alan Weinberg walks Anne Strainchamps through the science of caffeine. Sure it’s an addictive drug, but it has its good points!
Film-maker David Lynch is a long–time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation...
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