Getting a good night's sleep is hard for a lot of people, but imagine trying to drift off when you have terrifying hallucinations. Filmmaker Rodney Ascher documents the unsettling world of sleep paralysis - a strange condition where you can't move or speak and often have visions of demonic "shadow men."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What would it be like to spend two days a month in complete silence?
Aaron Sanchez talks with Anne Strainchamps about what makes salsa irresistible and shares some of his favorite salsa recipes.
Philosopher Carlin Romano talks about his book, "America the Philosophical."
Alex Gibney is the director of the Academy Award winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side."
Andrew Wojtanik triumphed at the National Geographic World Geography Bee in 2005. His study guide has become "Afghanistan to Zimbabwe."
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.
In his book "The Ethics of Voting," Georgetown philosopher Jason Brennan argues that we'd be better off if more people stayed home on Election Day. He says citizens don't have a civic duty to vote, and that some of us probably shouldn't vote at all.
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