No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
Karl Marx biographer Francis Wheen tells Steve Paulson his subject was a thoroughly bourgeois man who chose utter penury.
The last word goes to Dr. Seuss. His Sneetches found out the hard way about trying to follow the latest fads.
Carrie Rickey is the film critic for "The Philadelphia Inquirer." She talks to Steve Paulson about how Marshall McLuhan's ideas influenced David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi/horror film, as chronicled in her essay, "Videodrome; Make Mine Cronenberg."
Craig Harline tells Anne Strainchamps how Sunday has evolved over the past several centuries.
We re-examine the myth of Robert Johnson. The most famous blues singer of them all died at the age of 27 after recording only 29 songs. Today he's idolized, but Elijah Wald says that may be for the wrong reasons.
Daniel Tammett loves numbers, can do calculations in his head into the millions, and can recite pi to more than 22,000 digits. But he has trouble telling right from left and looking people in the eye.
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